ALE do occasionally accept private trips to Mount Sidley. For example, the January 2014 one was just such. This year, through 7 Summits Club, a large Russian-led trip departed ahead of the “usual” ALE trip which (as I write this) is now in Antarctica. So for the first Mount Continue Reading
V7S update – December 2024
There is another V7S completer. Yury Lukyanov completed the challenge on Pico de Orizaba with a group from 7 Summits Club on Christmas Day, 25th December 2024. Congratulations to Yury. Yury is the first person from Kazakhstan to achieve this. He was on Sidley last season when he Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits – November 2024 update
I am able to report that as of 29 November 2024, two more have complete the Volcanic Seven Summits. They are Ryszard Pawlowski and Tomasz Bryl, both Poles, who summited Ojos del Salado at approximately 13:00 local time in clear but very cold and windy conditions. Also in the party was Continue Reading
The Irish Furths
What are the Irish Furths? It is perhaps first worth explaining what the “Irish Furths” actually are. The Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) is the keeper of certain mountain/hill lists. All bar one of these lists cover Scotland only – Munros, Munro Tops, Corbetts and Donalds. Continue Reading
Beinn Mhor, Thacla and Beinn Corradail, South Uist
In my previous blog I mentioned that this was just the second time that I had been to the Outer Hebrides. Before visiting Seaforth Island by kayak and seeing the white-tailed eagle, I had been on the island of South Uist. Here I had some gorgeous weather and climbed Beinn Mhor. Continue Reading