Tuesday 2 August 2011

CRIB GOCH-KNIFES EDGE SNOWDON




Its good to explore and don't just do it the right way, go angular, vertical, horitantal...find the interesting passages and strength that make you climb it, determined, up around and do it over..there is always some new to see and experience...........Jane

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Ice Chimney




Looking for a place; ice chimneys in particular.....

The thought of crampons and layers and that lovely sweet tool in my hand,

against a wet cold wall wall....may have found it?

Monday 21 March 2011

Sheer Joy

It's all meant to inspire. A famous George Mallory quote (the famous Englishmountaineer who died on Everest in 1924), together with Leo who retraced Mallory's footsteps up Everest....

"What we get from good health and adventure is sheer joy. And joy is, after, the end of life. We do not live to make money. We make money to be able to enjoy life - a moment of bliss when we climb a mountain, complete a marathon, an exquisite moment of heightened pleasure or bite into a sumptuous morsel of food, when we improve our bodies and minds, attain our goals and make our stamp on the world.. To some, that is what life means, and what is for"..