What's it like to live and climb in one of the world's greatest playgrounds? This tongue-in-cheek and 'fictitious' post describes climbing a route with a good Australian friend of mine, and some of the delights of the Chamonix life...

I spent about two weeks in Scotland during February 2017. The conditions were sub-optimal but we shared our experience with eight visiting Slovenians, as part of a BMC-organised exchange.

The third and final part of our trip to Patagonia. Tony and I finally got a break in the weather and managed to make an ascent of 'Supercanaleta' on Fitzroy. It's a fairly amenable route but we were psyched to climb it just before leaving for home!

Llion is an outdoor instructor who works on the Bangor University Sports Science degree program. I attended this course from 2010-2013, and learnt a great deal. After a few years of our busy lives, I finally met him again in a Llanberis pub and we put the world to right. He was (and still is) an inspiration to me, and was a sort of mentor during my university years - even though I didn't aways know it.

This is the second part of our 2016-2017 trip to Patagonia. Calum has returned home after Torres del Paine, and Tony and I have moved to El Chalten in Argentina. We've been climbing in the Fitzroy and Cerro Torre massifs, and learning lots.

Calum Muskett, Tony Stone and I travelled to Torres del Paine, Patagonia, in December 2016. We had no luck with free climbing due to poor weather, but had a good time nonetheless. 

In 2015, Tom and Uisdean Hawthorn spent a month climbing in the Canadian Rockies. The British culture - and transport - seemed bizarrely similar to Canada, but yet so different. It was like a supersize world. This article was written during some down time before going into the mountains, and about the bloody train which repeatedly woke us as we slept in the back of our rental van.

The fourth series of 'Lessons Learnt.' What to wear for summer alpine climbing. To single push, or not to single push?

The highlights of 2016, month by month. What a year it's been!

The third series of 'Lessons Learnt.' What to wear for winter alpine climbing.