Over the years I have sadly neglected most of Scotland’s west coast islands. Because there are Munros there, I have been to Skye and to Mull. I had also been to Gigha. So in the summer of 2021, I decided to start to put that right and planned a trip to Rum. Rum has a central Continue Reading
Rum
Volcanic Seven Summiters – January 2022
This blog follows my recent blog on December 2021’s Sidley expedition. As indicated in that blog, there was one additional person who had then completed the Volcanic Seven Summits. I can now report that two more individuals can now be added to the list. So this blog provides an updated list of Continue Reading
Mount Sidley – December 2021 (updated)
[Updated 1st January 2022 to include details of the guides, details of summits and updated list of Mount Sidley summits] This blog looks at ALE's expedition to Mount Sidley in December 2021. ALE had to cancel its January 2021 trip because of Covid. So ALE proposes to run two trips this season Continue Reading
Three Ultras in Crete
I blogged about Ultras here. Obviously, this Covid thing has restricted travel. However, this October Julie and I managed to sneak a week on the island of Crete. As with two previous trips for some sun and mountains – Teide and Pico Ruivo – we used a package holiday with Jet2 as Continue Reading
Top 50 Ultras
This is just a brief note to say that I have made quite a few updates over the last couple of months to the climbers' list in my blog about the 50 most prominent peaks in the world. You can find this list here. If any reader has any information that would help the list better I would be happy to Continue Reading