With winter approaching and some snow in the alps now seems like the perfect time to recount my ski touring trip in the Bernese Oberland last year. Day 1 After […]
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Trekking in Patagonia – Part 2
Having successfully completed the W Trek in the Torres del Paine national park in Chile our next trekking destination was the famous climbing town of El Chalten. If you haven’t […]
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Trekking in Patagonia – Part 1
In April this year I went to Patagonia to do some trekking with 2 friends. We did two main treks during the trip, the first of which was the 5 […]
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On the Haute Route
If you read Stu’s blog post about his Midlayer / Jacket dilemma (I know, the anguish) – click here to read the post – then you’ll recall that he was […]
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Facewest’s Summer Holidays
With summer over and the Facewest office well and truly into the autumn/winter 2016 season we’ve been reflecting on what the staff here have been up to over the summer. […]
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Mountain Equipment Product Testing
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about a tour of the DMM factory (read the blog here) which Graham and I had the chance to partake in. […]
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DMM Factory Tour
A few weeks ago Facewest’s Graham and I were fortunate enough to go on a 2 day training course in North Wales courtesy of Mountain Equipment. We spent the first […]
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Winter climbing – South of France style
This years really wet winter had been getting me pretty down about the lack of actual rock climbing when an invitation arrived in my inbox, from a friend who lives […]
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Patrouille Des Glaciers
After a couple of Pierra Menta skimo races I was keen to try another classic and since 2016 was a PDG year (only runs every other year) then it seemed […]