Part 3 of this blog can be found here. This blog covers my Mount Damavand climb. On Wednesday, 5th August 2015 I wake up on a concrete floor in converted stables. Sleep has been OK, if broken. My ageing body is not used to sleeping on a thin blow up mattress. It was warm enough Continue Reading
Iran Adventure: Part 3 – To Damavand
Please click here for Part 2. Part 3 of this blog describes our journey to Damavand, one of the Volcanic Seven Summits. I awoke at Shirpala on 4th August after a better night’s sleep – but not a great one. Breakfast was at a late 8am – it was also not great today so I raided some of the Continue Reading
Mount Rainier, Washington making a grown man cry – 29th July to 1 August 2013
The USA is a land of vastly different landscapes, including may different mountain ranges – the Appalachians in the east, the Rockies of the mid west, the Sierra Nevada in California and Nevada, and the sub-sets of those. One lesser known range is the Cascades which run from northern California up Continue Reading
Mount Hood, Oregon
It can’t be very often that you get such a spectacular view of your objective. This is Mount Hood. Approaching Portland airport on the best of days, just a few thousand feet above this 11,250ft mountain. Wow! Mount Hood is one of the group of volcanoes that run in a line down the west Continue Reading