• From Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!

  • From Metric

  • From Put it to the People March

  • From Rome

  • From Climbing with Laurence

  • From Three Valleys Skiing

  • From Cheeky Weekend Skiing

  • From 2019 New Year's Day

  • From Christmas on the Isle of Man

Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!

Laetitia and I had planned to do the Haute Route with Ian, Rachel and Andy, and Dawn and Austin several months earlier. However, first Ian had to drop out due to work commitments. Then Austin had to bail because of illness. And now as we arrived in Chamonix Laetitia had caught a wicked flu from

Metric

In the metic system one millilitre of water occupies one cubic centimetre, weights one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat it up by one degree centigrade – which is one percent of the difference between its freezing and boiling points. And an amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount, one gram, has