Alpine Guide Verbier

A mountain guide’s perspective on current ski and climbing conditions in and around Verbier, Switzerland.

Rock Climbing near Verbier and Chamonix

Summer is over and I have not published a thing! Too much time to do too many things! The weather is back to summer-time temps, reflecting again the in and out weather in the Alps this season. Most recently, we did a couple of real fine climbs on perfect granite. One, up the Val d’Arpette, [...]

The calm before the storm

Swiss Meteo wrote that yesterday was the calm before the storm. So we headed over the ridge to Italy, Aosta, to climb a 13 pitch! rock route. What a gas it was to touch this fine granit so close to the road. We climbed “Mitico Vento”, 6b, 500m above the Val d’Aoste. The forecast is [...]

Indian Summer Rock Climbing

The rock is hot during this fine Indian Summer. Funny how the weather was so unsettled preceding this Autumnal equinox. Although we have had a few dustings of snow in the high mountains. But pure rock routes at medium elevations are now revealing their intense allure. A few photos of the rock climbing at this [...]

Climbing Les Dentelles de Montmirail

Smack-dab in the middle of the best wine region of Provence, this climber’s paradise gets the thumbs up!

Rock Climbing Above Verbier

We managed to get another climb in before winter rolled in.