Our travels abroad are often a compromise between visits to cultural and natural sites and climbing the occasional mountain. Our visit to Japan this year was no different. It is a country that has fascinated me for a while. So, we took the plunge and organised a trip for Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits – May 2024
I am able to report that there is another completer of the Volcanic Seven Summits on 15th May 2024. This is Russian Andrey Kravchenko. He completed the seven on Mount Giluwe as a part of a Seven Summits Club team. Here he is on the summit. Congratulations to him. The claimants' list is Continue Reading
The Second Volcanic Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are well-known. In 1997, the concept of the Second Seven Summits came into the wider public domain with an article in Rock & Ice by David Keaton. This article, of course, listed the second highest mountains on each continent and also discussed their relative Continue Reading
Mount Canobolas, New South Wales
Mount Canobolas was the final significant peak that we summited on our recent trip to Australia. But it was also the easiest. Mount Canobolas is yet another eroded shield volcano. It is relatively young at 11 to 13 million years old and around half the age of the volcanoes that we Continue Reading
Mount Exmouth, New South Wales
Mount Exmouth is located in the Warrumbungle National Park which is around a 6 hour drive north west of Sydney. The nearest town is Coonabarabran to the east. The area is also part of a dark sky park with Siding Spring Observatory located just outside the eastern boundary to the National Continue Reading