Full video of the descent of the Milieu glacier, with Chris Handy and myself.

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…

Dry tooling near Champery The boys out training before the winter season gets underway. Dry Tooling near Barme in Champery a great way to hone mixed climbing techniques, get the burn and get scared! An M10 with poor axe placement and worse feet makes for exciting climbing!

The kendal film festival is a superb event to watch the best outdoor films, listen to adventurers talking about thier experiences and a great place get inspired for your own expeditions. Definite highlights were watching the premier of Wide Boyz – an awesome climbing film about offwidth climbing, listening to the highly motivated Tim Emmet…

Miroir D’Argentine The miroir; A 400 m high clean slab of limestone rising up above the picture postcard Swiss chalets of Solalex, standing by neigbouring peaks of Diablerets and the Gran Muveran. Between 12 and 17 pitches gets you to the top with numerous routes to choose from at all grades from the classic Y…

After completing the ironman austria this summer in blazing heat we sat down and wrote down a few top tips if/when we do another…. Bags – ties around the bags transition – make them easily seenHand Towel in All bags – so suncream can be applied.One bottle on the bike. Loads of aid stations.Drop a…

On the road at last with warren and Spencer, great to be on the go after a week of worrying about the event and making sure everything is done before we leave. The main worry about the event is the temperature is looking like its going to peak on the day at 37’C, which could…

It’s been a long time since I have updated this. There’s been a few good reasons for that. Primarily, it was the most incredible winter in the Alps, fantastic skiing conditions for the majority of the season, great ski-touring, brilliant ice climbing, awesome ice hockey in between running expeditions every weekend for the school. All…

42k of stunning coastline for 12,000 competitors to find out what they are made of by running as fast as humanly possible from nice to Cannes. 7.30am Warren, Spence and me were lined up at the start with a sense of impending doom, trying to keep warm and hydrate enough before we set off. It…