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
Alan Arnette interview with Dave Roskelley on the Volcanic Seven Summits
Dave Roskelley is a Utahn, originally from Chicago. He completed the Volcanic Seven Summits in January 2020 on Mount Sidley in Antarctica. Whilst on his trip, he and another team member were kind enough to send me photos from Mount Sidley itself. We also had a brief chat when he was at the Sidley Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits: Defining the Continents
I was inspired to write this blog by an essay written by the late Adam Helman (here). A comment made in my blog on Australia's highest volcano (here) also gave me a push. Adam Helman's essay discussed the fact that it is quite possible to define the Seven Summits differently from the traditional Continue Reading
Will you Dare to Reach?
I have never reviewed a book before. So let's give it a go. This book is called Dare to Reach – L’Aventure d’une Vie. Theodore (Ted) Fairhurst is a Canadian businessman, artist, traveller and mountaineer. Rather like me he had been infected by the mountain bug in his early years. Continue Reading