Alpine Climbing
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The Normalisation of Deviance and how I nearly killed myself at an avalanche “safe” venue…
Read more: The Normalisation of Deviance and how I nearly killed myself at an avalanche “safe” venue…MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, we pushed forwards in towards the cliff as we were hit by the air blast. Pelted by chunks of snow I wrapped my arms around my head and waited either for the avalanche, or my life, to end… Moments before I was gearing up at the bottom of the classic ice climb…
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Am I a completer-finisher? Climbing the six classic North Faces of the Alps.
Read more: Am I a completer-finisher? Climbing the six classic North Faces of the Alps.A personal description of the journey to climb the six classic north faces of the alps. ‘The Marine’ opened the conversation quietly but confidently, stating that we should start our alpine climbing career by climbing the six alpine North Faces. I agreed. For the uninitiated, as was I at this point, “the six” include: The…
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Mont Blanc: The Inconvenient Truth…
Read more: Mont Blanc: The Inconvenient Truth…To climb Mont Blanc remains one of the great accessible challenges in the Chamonix Mont Blanc Massif for climbers and alpinists. Standing on the highest summit (4810m) around and looking across the Italian plains, along the alpine arc and below to the smaller chains of Les Aravis and Chablais is a seminal experience. But we…
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Les Droites with Chris Bedford
Read more: Les Droites with Chris Bedford[Originally published in July 2016 this post describes and ascent of Les Droites, Chris Bedford’s last 4000m summit in the Alps]. In mid July, unsettled weather cleared through the alps leaving fresh snow and colder conditions behind. It was an ideal opportunity to grab an ascent of Les Droites with Chris Bedford. Chris had been…
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