You take a step, then another. With your third step the lactate burn feels like a knife in your thighs. You pause for a minute, breath deeply in the thin, cold air. Then take another three steps and pause. Anyone who has climbed at altitude knows the shuffle that makes you feel like you’ve aged […]
Woman saved wearing Avalanche Airbag
Just after I posted the tragic account of a death in Austria of a teenager who was equipped with an airbag, I came across this amazing report and video of a woman who was saved in Utah from an avalanche. According to the report on Fox News a woman was caught up in a snow slide […]
Preparing to hike the GR20 in Corsica
After a far-too-long absence from the hills and mountains because of work, family and the like, I’m finally about to get back out on a good, solid walk. And what better walk to do than to undertake what a lot of people have been calling Europe’s toughest trail, the GR20 that runs along the spine […]
Mountaineering and Science: A Long Partnership
If you ever thought that mountaineering and science were incompatible then you were very wrong. From the very earliest days of formal exploration and mountaineering, expeditions were a partnership between adventurers and scientists. The first big expedition that I went on was intended to be partly scientific with doctors wanting to do some research on […]
The Alpkit Tetri
Alpkit has made a real name for itself in the past few years for making great quality gear at amazing prices and the Alpkit tetri looks set to continue this tradition. First some background for people outside the UK who may not know much about Alpkit. This is a company that started a few years […]