Monte Rosa – Part 2
Clinging to civilisation for a bit longer, our planned ‘first lift of the morning’ start turned in to a savoured hotel breakfast and more of a 10 am-ish lift. Our plans for the day weren’t too ambitious – lifts to the Indren station, ascend to the Mantova Hut to set […]
Monte Rosa – Part 1
July is summer in the northern hemisphere – news to this Antipodean once as a child and then again more recently on Monte Rosa. I’ve since checked once more. During a two-week stay in Les Houches prior to this climbing adventure, rain had been the recurring theme in continually unsettled […]
Alpine Summer in Motion
Motion picture isn’t really my forte but since I had a GoPro in the Alps this year, it seems a waste not to make something of it. I spent a spare hungover afternoon chopping the footage together. It needs to come with a warning that the wobbly helmet-cam footage will […]
Reasons to Carry
A quick interlude to another week of Ph.D. mayhem. When I started playing around with photography, I jumped right in with a DSLR. Initially it was a Canon 450D, which I really liked but found a bit small for my hands – it can be hard to simultaneously grip and […]
Chalet des Anglais 2014
Firstly, I’ve added an email subscription form. If you’d like an email to let you know that I’ve blurted out some more words and posted more photos then jump on board. There’ll never be more than one email per week. A bad case of PhDitis has made it a bit […]
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