Month: February 2011

Off piste powder heaven at Le Tour

Monday, 28th February 2011

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt I was drowning...

Deep powder at Planpraz

Sunday, 27th February 2011

In the half way sate between being asleep and being awake I registered an explosion...

The Final Week

Saturday, 26th February 2011

With just 2 hours before I travel the 15kms to the coast to get on the ship, a last blog from the Brunt Ice Shelf...

Fairy Tale World

Saturday, 26th February 2011

The Hungarian system of mountaineer qualification has three steps...

Ogof Pwll Swnd

Sunday, 20th February 2011

Back underground in South Wales

The Halley Marathon

Sunday, 20th February 2011

Last Sunday 24 of us at Halley base set off in the Halley Marathon: 8 Â½ laps of the base perimeter...

Dales Way Run

Saturday, 19th February 2011

With the grey skies and fresh snow (but above zero temperatures) today all the options for adventure didn't really seem all that adventurous...

Core blimey!

Friday, 18th February 2011

Today we got our first chance to look around the newly completed core store at work! The store is immense. It holds around 10 000 tonnes of rock and brings together 3,000,000,000 years of earth history into one building. The older part of the core store holds a collossal 200 km of onshore core, plus …

In the woods….

Monday, 14th February 2011

MOOSE