It takes an age to download but there is a great piece of video of Lynn Hill climbing ‘The Nose’. Truly awesome and inspiring stuff. There are also plenty of […]

Mt Dobson in New Zealand is aiming for its earliest opening in 27 years of operation with a planned season launch date of this Saturday, 27 May. The southern hemisphere’s […]

Mount Ruapehu.com has this to say about the pre season conditions on the north island of New Zealand. – You beauty! Non-skiers and boarders might not like this cold weather […]

Tomas Olsson is missing on Everest north face, while Norwegian Tormod Granheim has descended to 6500 meter. Tomas vanished at around 8500 meters yesterday, following a fall. The two skiers […]

I have started work on the Facewest cycle section, which can be found here Facewest Bike Section. Aimed primarily at the cycle tourist rather than racers or downhillers, we hope […]

Excellent pre season snow falls are getting people excited down under. With only a few weeks to go before the start of the season Mt Hotham has reported 30cm of […]

Congratulations to Jon Hendry (our warehouse manager) for the sucessfully organising the Carneige Leeds Grammar Aquathon. Held in mixed weather conditions on Sunday 14.05.06 this event was a complete sucess. […]

Our french connection reports that yesterday in the 3 valleys was fantastic. January style temperatures, clear blue skies plus a metre of fresh snow made the piste and backcountry near […]

Welcome (again) to the Facewest blog. After an abortive attempt a while back we are now back on the blog trail. Facewest is an adventure sports equipment retailer. We are […]