I’m just back from a two week trip to Chamonix; the conditions were not particularly great with not much ice about, the ice that was around being mostly old black […]

I recently tested the Mountain Equipment Microtherm Alpine Jacket on a trip to the Alps this summer, and wore it on several routes. I was using it as the midlayer […]

I’m just back from my second dose of Alpine climbing of the summer; this time I went to Arolla then onto Zermatt finishing in Chamonix. The first route we climbed […]

I’m just back from three weeks in climbing in the Alps. The first two weeks the weather was pretty stable, the last week bad weather hit the mountains so we […]

I spent an excellent Easter weekend in Pembroke, climbing until I was so tired I could barely pick up my rucksack.  We arrived quite late on Friday afternoon, but got […]

Here at Facewest we have been wearing through our finger tips in the past couple of weeks climbing on the local gritstone boulders after work.  With the prospect of 6 […]

I have been waiting years for a chance to do winter ascents of the classic gully’s on Scafell’s North Face; and last Saturday I did both of them on the […]