Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Mont Blanc - plans afoot

We have now booked up with Adventure Peaks for a crack at Mont Blanc in August.

Advice from postings in the Outdoors Magic forums has prompted us to select a two week trip to ensure we acclimatise properly. The first week will cover alpine training and ascent of some smaller peaks in the Mont Blanc range and the second week will give us a reasonable window to summit the main peak.

As we have no previous winter experience we have also booked a five day introduction to winter mountaineering course in Glen Coe for February

Monday, January 01, 2007

2007 The adventure continues

Happy new year to you all - here are our plans, subject to change, for 2007:

  • February - Scottish Winter Mountaineering skills course
  • April - Essential Alpine Skills course, Plas y Brenin
  • June - First Alpine expedition - Chamonix
  • August - Mont Blanc
  • December - Scottish winter climbing
and in between, as many hill days in North Wales and the Lake District as we can muster

"We've come this far. Let's make the last step together"
Jim Wickwire, Summit of K2, 1978