Eyebright Adventures

Big walls with outrageous atmospheres! In the end we were really lucky, with each day starting with rain but ending in sunshine and thankfully quick drying limestone. We'll never forget wandering across blank walls and airy aretes at and the artillery testing into the Atlantic!? @ Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Here's a story about Monday:

The alarm went off at 1:30 after I had seen the hands strike 1. Must have been nervous. Skinning at 2:40 into a light horizontal snow fall, we arrived at the bergschrund having glimpsed 4 head torches in the couloir but rarely seeing their tracks. I thought I saw someone fall down the couloir, their light plummeting quickly 400m or so, followed by a frantic scanning from party members shining their torches back down. Whether a dropped torch or a trick of the eye due to staring into the driving snow for two hours I don't know, but we were spooked for some time that we may be party to a different kind of mission this morning.

As the sun rose our comfort increased, and the first third climbed in good neve. The central 300-400m that followed was unstable, dangerously sugary snow. Our pace slowed, we pitched the last three lengths as confidence in the snow had waned, although these were in fact better than the ones before.

The wind gusted some at the col. Pretty exhausted, stressed and cold we walked along the arete towards the summit before a few more gusts made us think otherwise.

I dropped my water bottle-all our remaining water- at the col. That leads to quite a drop in performance it turns out.

We did two rapps over the chunky stuff, and where the sun had been bathing stepped into our skis. Nothing like 47-50 deg to snap you out of a dehydrated daze! The snow was perfect for this, grippy and consistent. We skied 350m before having to transfer to the other couloir. This had funky snow so we resumed the faffing of trying to reach abseil anchors on skis and make transitions on this ridiculous slope. Finally down to a point we could ski out and relief washed over us. Even better once we got some water at the couvercle refuge. New lesson might be to have two small bottles on the mountain as it's not the first time I've dropped one!

- Martin GB thanks for realizing this line 🙏🏻
- sorry for being late
- thanks for the lessons in steep skiing over the years!

#60%ofthelineallthetime

Last week Jack and I wandered into the now deserted Val d'anniviers that backs on to Zermatt valley. Our traverse of the Zinalrothorn(4221m) via the Rothorngrat and down the N ridge took a mighty 18hrs hut to hut(!). Impeccable rock, great conditions, views of all the big Swiss horns, cowboy down-climbing and a chilling traverse of some bullet hard glacier slopes all made for a great adventure that in the end pushed us pretty hard! Lolz to two IML's doing their summers worth of alpine climbing in a day 😂 cheers @ Val d'Anniviers

A great shot from of my last few meters of up in Lyngen for this year. This is it for me. Skiing steeps, climbing ridges, skating across frozen lakes, catching rod the cod, fireside chats, long dinners, home made bread...the list goes on! Find some trip reports from the house on thanks for having me! ✌️

About to see a whole lot of Scandinavia 🌲🦌

Join us on the wild Alta Via 2 trekking from Courmayeur to Grand Paradiso National Park! Prices start from €2200 18-28/07 contact [email protected] for more details. Hope to see you on the trail!

Join us for the Walkers Glacial Haute Route! A stunning historical glacier hike from Chamonix to Zermatt 01-09 July. Prices from €2150 email [email protected] for more details- Happy Easter everyone!

Join us on the magnificent Alta Via 2 trekking from Courmayeur to Grand Paradiso over 10 incredible days! We have spaces on a fixed departure 18/6/2018 and prices start at €2200.

For more details email [email protected]

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Light bags and low altitude make for full pleasure powder touring above Refugio Benevolo!
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