Two days Munro Bagging in Glen Etive Bagging Stob Coir’an Albannaich (1044m) and Meall nan Eun (928m) at bottom of Glen Etive. Fantastic sunny day. High avalanche risk on SE to SW slopes, lots of patchy windslab and sastrugi to navigate through safely. Some crampon work needed on steep harder North slopes. Buchille Etive More » read more »
We’ve had a couple of Scottish trips this January. The first was a week at New Year spent in Newtonmore where we hired the local hostel. The weather was unusually cold and very snowy so we didn’t achieve very much due to high avalanche risk, but we did manage to bag Carn a’Chlamain from Blair » read more »
We had a trip to the Tatras with Jane, Helen & Patrick this September. It was good fun but massively overcrowded. The Tatras aren’t as high or as rugged as the Alps, and so are less prone to snow hazards in late summer. They have something of a Lake District feel about them, but also » read more »
As part of our Italian High Level Route we had a spectacular day, climbing four 4000 metre peaks: Pyramid Vincent (4215m), the Balmhorn (4167m) – not much more than a small rock with via ferrata, the Zumsteinspitze (4563m) – high point of our trip, and the Signalkuppe (4556m) – topped off with the highest tea » read more »
Directly after finishing our Tour des Combin we we went round to Zermatt and met up with British Mountain Guides Kathy Murphy and Cube to do some high level glacier treking & Hutting with a bit of easy 4000m peak bagging too. Our group was Roger, Patrick, Jane, Jon, Martin and another Phil. Day » read more »
Author: Phil Newby