Cho Oyu the Turquoise Goddess .
Double summit on Cho Oyu. Getting 6th is something I got used to at a very young age. Never the gold or silver for me in Football,...
Pyrenees Ice-climbing
Icy seductress .. It s four am. and I am wide awake: have been since mid-night. Nicely wired. Yes. My bed is cosy warm and Hermione s...
Everest base camp
Bhola Every little wrinkle on the man’s face tells a story. Every shy smile that escapes holds back several life-times worth of...
Mount Kenya
The underdog’s underdog. Hi my name is ken. I am a kikuyu tribesman. My very first memories of being alive are looking after my family’s...
Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro A wise man once said that the intensity of an experience lies within the detail. And this is definitely true for climbing...
Denali.
Gnarly Denali It was perhaps no coincidence that I should be sharing the tent straining to keep purchase at the high camp of Denali with...
Aconcagua. Trek and Mountain team.
Up up and away.. It’s always hard to supress summit fever when the summit of the peak you have come to climb begins to smile seductively...
Elbrus. The Mountaineer's route.
The main problem working with Daniel is the language barrier. I ask him how long he has been a mountain guide and he says; eight minutes....
Elbrus. The not so hard way.
Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe and as such important to those collecting the seven summits. It has a well-deserved reputation...
Climbing Lobuche East with a dog.
Outing with a dog. I looked out of the tent to check if the weather had changed its mind and gone back to being cheerful. It hadn’t;...
