The team get out for some winter training at Mauvoisin. A period of stable warm weather after massive amounts of snow made for great ice climbing conditions high above Verbier. Good quality ice running down large features with loads of routes at most grades offers varied and interesting ice climbing.  Me leading the first pitch…

Looking up the North face of the Courtes. A classic alpine north face with potential for a ski down from the top down the NE couloir or an easier ski down the south side. There has been a lot of snow in Chamonix recently and we weren’t sure if that was going to be a…