Lockdown Publication
It was a publication day like no other. Coronavirus lockdown. No prospect of travel in the near future, yet launching a book that extolled just that, a new guidebook about […]
Category Archives: Chamonix
OWPG Best Guidebook award 2017
I’m back from the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild (OWPG) annual AGM weekend. To be fair I didn’t have to travel too far, as it was just up the road […]
Author running events
As part of the launch events for these running guidebooks, there are a couple of upcoming ‘run with the author’ dates for your diary. These two dates are both based […]
Chamonix Spring Trails
So when is the trail running season in Chamonix and the Alps? Now!!! Yesterday I posted a video I’d shot whilst running to Gorge d’Arveyron and Le Chapeau above Lavancher […]
Commercialism – running to escape it
I will not run the Marathon du Mont Blanc ever again. Back in 2009, it was my first proper mountain race, and I loved every minute (there were plenty of […]
TDS race 119km
Last week I ran one of the UTMB Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc events, called the TDS, or more formally Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie (On the tracks […]
80km du Mont Blanc
On Friday I ran the first ever edition of the 80km du Mont Blanc, a brand new trail race that I involved 6000m of ascent. This made it comparable to […]
Summer to Autumn
I’m finally at the end of my summer season guiding in the Alps, and with low cloud and rain in Chamonix today, it feels like the inter-season too. A massive […]
UTMB: Ready for lift off
Last year at this time, I was a nervous wreck, waiting in fear for the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc UTMB to set off in a weeks time. This year […]
Trail running camp
Last week I was out each day leading a Trail Running Camp for http://www.icicleUK.com, on routes around the Chamonix region. The week had amazing weather, with not even one spot […]
