From Kendal Mountain Festival '14
From Oswestry
From CSC - From Application to Acceptance
From Corporate Service Corps - In the beginning I had a plan...
From Improvised Rescue Practice
From Yorkshire MTB
From Seven Days of Languedoc Sport Climbing
From Via Ferrata 'Extreme' at Honister Pass
From 2014 Rab Mountain Marathon

Kendal Mountain Festival ’14

Thursday, 27th November 2014

Rebecca and Mathias had finally succumbed to my endless enthusiasm for Kendal and had made the journey all the way from Germany to sample the madness that is the world's most attended festival of all things mountain...

Oswestry

Thursday, 27th November 2014

I found myself in Oswestry this past week, it’s a nice place, but unless you like town centres and shopping and stuff, there ain’t a lot to do. So I went for a coffee…

CSC – From Application to Acceptance

Wednesday, 19th November 2014

The window for applications for the IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) is very small each year, only a few weeks in April/May, so as soon as it opened this year I started to draft my application – a serious undertaking. #ibmcsc peru

Corporate Service Corps – In the beginning I had a plan…

Monday, 17th November 2014

Summer 2013. It was a typical day in the office, or should I say in my home office after a regular day at work. #ibmcsc peru

Improvised Rescue Practice

Saturday, 15th November 2014

Saturday’s weather was dry, but not as sunny as the forecast had suggested it might be. So still being keen to get outside and do something climbing related Laetitia offered to be a pretend casualty while I practiced some improvised rescue skills at Trowbarrow Quarry…

Yorkshire MTB

Sunday, 9th November 2014

Keeping a diary is tough, especially when one has to go out for an adventure in the great outdoors first! 🙂

Seven Days of Languedoc Sport Climbing

Friday, 24th October 2014

Keith had invited a small gang to the Languedoc region of southern France to sample some of his favourite local sport climbing …

Via Ferrata ‘Extreme’ at Honister Pass

Tuesday, 7th October 2014

I told Bernie to book us on the ‘Classic’ Via Ferrata at the Honister Pass slate mines but we arrived to find ourselves booked on the ‘Extreme’. Well, you can only die once, I thought.