Chris Cowdrey Climbing and Skiing

I must admit, I have been pretty useless at updating this blog over the last year. Not because I haven't done anything though! It...

A small, conspicuous metal gate is all that guards the high mountains above Chamonix from the hordes of Japanese tourists, eager to...

How many times do you visit a single ski resort? Once? Twice? Return every season? I have visited a fair few resorts in my 2 years of ski...

Winter in the UK can be very hit and miss. You blink and it's gone. Scotland usually does 'alright' but the mountains of Engl...

The Chere Couloir (II,4) The very top climber in at the 3rd belay and the bottom 2 making their way up to the 2nd. We met the famous Dan...

View from the Torino hut from the Dent dy Geant on the left, to the Integral ridge on the right Do you believe in fate? Or what about l...

FINALLY! The wind has died down and the midi is open! But unfortunately for Dave, he's heading home. However, he did make it all th...

The winds still haven't died down and so we've been forced to seek skiing elsewhere. We headed to Courmayeur on Thursday but lik...

Top of Bochard nearing the end of the day Since Dave and Kev have arrived, the weather has deteriorated. High winds have closed the top ...

I arrived in Chamonix on Wednesday after the most stress free traveling I have ever had; no cues, no waiting (apart from the compulsory 2...

And so, my 4th day of putting skins on skis was in a tired and hungover state and for the 3rd time in a week, at the base of Piere a Ric...

Testimonial: I learnt to ski on a dry slope in the UK in Dec 2013 and soon after, in Jan 2014, headed off to Austria for my first holiday....

Conditions are shit in Chamonix at the moment. The lifts aren't opening until the 20th, which is the day I leave and no snow is forec...

I just want give a huge thank you to the parents of Chris Walker for giving me a place on Alison Culshaws Off Piste for Mountaineers course...

"Dude, we have to stop, I've lost the tracks and I can't see where the crevasses are." The weather had taken over us,...

Lady skier (on piste): THERE'S A CREVASSE BELOW YOU!! Me (off piste): Yeah, I know, cheers! Me: "shit.....Kev! Have you no...