From Mini New Year Break in Chamonix
From A Chamonix Painting Expedition
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From A quick Chamonix Skiing trip...
From Seven Days of Languedoc Sport Climbing
From Passy Via Ferrata
From Forbes Arête, Aiguille du Chardonnet
From Aiguilles Crochues, Voie Ravanel
From Summer in Les Contamines ... week 1

Mini New Year Break in Chamonix

Saturday, 2nd January 2016

The snow conditions were looking very poor in Chamonix with the endless sunshine in the Alps. The Atlantic frontal systems that should have been delivering frequent snow storms were being concentrated in to torrential rain over the north west of England. However, it still seemed like a better option than watching that endless rain in …

A Chamonix Painting Expedition

Saturday, 7th November 2015

Time to Work Last week Ian and I went to the French Alps to get a load of apartment maintenance work done. The lounge area got a complete floor-to-ceiling paint job (there was a nasty crack in the ceiling to repair too), and Ian’s kitchen area got a new worktop… Here’s a shot of the …

Chamonix Weekend

Monday, 29th June 2015

Recently we enjoyed a super sunny long weekend in Chamonix with Dave and Kasia…

A quick Chamonix Skiing trip…

Tuesday, 17th February 2015

Who said you can’t get cheap flights anymore? We just grabbed great value flights to Geneva for a four day ski trip to Chamonix, despite it being half-term. OK, so the times were very unsociable (7AM leaving Liverpool and 11PM returning) but that just meant we could also ski on our flight days! After our …

Seven Days of Languedoc Sport Climbing

Friday, 24th October 2014

Keith had invited a small gang to the Languedoc region of southern France to sample some of his favourite local sport climbing …

Passy Via Ferrata

Thursday, 18th September 2014

Ian is too busy to write up our little adventure in Passy, just down the valley from Chamonix, so I thought I would post a few photos to remember a fun day out.

Forbes Arête, Aiguille du Chardonnet

Wednesday, 3rd September 2014

Note to self: If you go up a mountain after too much time spent in the office and too little time spent acclimatising, it’s going to hurt – everywhere!