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From German Visitors
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From l'Etape Course 2019
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From Steady Away
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From A Break in the Training
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From L'Etape du Tour 2019
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From Fontainebleau Stop-off
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From Zermatt
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From Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!
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From Metric
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
Exactly one month to go and the official course for l’Etape du Tour 2019 has been published. We knew what the course was already of course, but having the official map is nice, and it also shows a bit more detail about the locations of feeding stations etc. What with first fracturing my ankle and …
Three weeks ago I managed to fall, not far and not fast, off a rock climb in Buttermere. I was unlucky to hit a small (10cm x 10cm) ledge with my left foot in that fall. If I’d fallen 10cm less far or to either side I’d have missed the ledge, been embarrassed but totally …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
Finally starting to get to grips with the training programme for this year’s l’Etape du Tour – from Albertville to Val Thorens (where we were skiing only a couple of months ago), 135km and over 4000m of climbing. This year Laetitia is doing it too, so that should be great fun – the atmosphere of …
We’d travelled to the Chamonix in our van to give us some flexibility… Would the weather mean we’d need to go elsewhere? Would we drive to Zermatt? Would Brexit mean our return date needed to change? Would we want to stop off at Fontainebleau for some bouldering action on the way home? All of these …
Having failed to get our act together for the Haute Route for all sorts of reasons, and having booked a hotel in Zermatt that wouldn’t let us cancel without full payment (!), we decided to go and ski in Zermatt anyhow. This turned in to quite an exciting prospect as only Dawn out of our …
Laetitia and I had planned to do the Haute Route with Ian, Rachel and Andy, and Dawn and Austin several months earlier. However, first Ian had to drop out due to work commitments. Then Austin had to bail because of illness. And now as we arrived in Chamonix Laetitia had caught a wicked flu from …
In the metic system one millilitre of water occupies one cubic centimetre, weights one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat it up by one degree centigrade – which is one percent of the difference between its freezing and boiling points. And an amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount, one gram, has …
