A Lady in the Alps

Here is a write up for the week I spent with Lady Collum walking around and climbing amongst the Mont Blanc range.

Lady Collum is 70 years old, she is an accomplished hill walker having been to Everest Base Camp and recently making an ascent of Kilimanjaro (5895m). The Alps are a step on from [...]

New Helicopter Procedures

This came via my SNAM membership. I guess one of the most interesting points made in it is that the helicopter crew will eventually require your GPS coordinates, this piece accepts that transcribing these from an IGN map when under stress on the mountain is fairly difficult. It suggests that in the first instance [...]