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Thursday, October 6, 2016 12:44:36 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled East Ridge of Monte Viso 3841m:
Mark said, "SO-1750 vertical meters descent from the Aigle Hut later we arrived in La Grave. La Grave is about as far away form where we left the car 4 days ago as it is possible to get in the Alps. This problem was solved with by a very pleasant taxi man at..." more
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 2:39:46 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Traverse of Meije by the Enfetchores : One of the worlds finest alpine climbs.:
Mark said, "Everything went like clock work. I scooped Charles Sherwood up from Geneva Airport as he walked out of the terminal. We then drove down towards Grenoble before heading up the vertiginous road to La Berard. A road where key sections have..." more
Friday, September 23, 2016 10:28:40 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled 40th Birthday celebration traverse of the Vallee Blanche.:
Mark said, "In 2015 Ben Noakes and his wife Becca visited the Chamonix valley and went up the Aguille du Midi. It was at the top that Ben became determined that he wanted to cross the Vallee Blanche with his friends as part of a week long birthday party for a..." more
Monday, September 5, 2016 8:14:13 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled And Finally The Matterhorn 4478m:
Mark said, "John Young joined me for ten days climbing. We had agreed that we would do whatever the conditions allowed, with no fixed goal. Always the best way to approach a climbing trip. Our first five days climbing together were outstanding, despite not..." more
Sunday, September 4, 2016 1:52:13 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Girls on Le Tour.:
Mark said, "Millie and Honour are just at the right age to start alpine climbing with a night in a Mountain Refuge.If you are lucky enough, a good age to start Alpine climbing is around 13 or 14 years old. Any earlier the lungs are not developed enough and..." more
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:33:21 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Car Crash of a weather forecast:
Mark said, "The first casualty of the war is the plan. The plan being to climb Mont Blanc. Masses of snow , high avalanche risk and as crap a weather forecast that is possible to imagine. I met David Ford with considerable trepidation yet over a beer I broke..." more
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:33:21 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Magnificient week with an utterly depressing last day:
Mark said, "David Folkman and Dee Anand joined me for an expedition to the Monte Rosa massif high above Gressoney/ Alagna just up from the Aosta valley. On the Monday we drove from Chamonix to Gressoney. We left the car and rode the lift system to Punta..." more
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:33:21 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled How to become a very good mountaineer :Quickly.:
Mark said, "Sacha Kamp and Brett Ansley turned up with the brief that they wanted to learn the key skills of mountaineering. They were both fit and strong but had no alpine mountaineering experience. We started on the Mer de Glace in order to show them how to..." more
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:33:21 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled No better experince as a Dad than to climb with your children.:
Mark said, "The chance to be in the mountains and share experiences with your kids is one of the best things in the world. The trouble is the older they get the more difficult it is to organise, especially when your girls are in their 20's .Peter Collins is..." more
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:33:20 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Ultra Peaks - not always the highest but always the most spectacular.:
Mark said, "Stephen Kellock had come all the way from Canada to climb with me and discover what the Alps were supposedly all about. We had climbed a variety of routes around Chamonix and we were building towards the end of the week. I was keen to finish..." more
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 1:33:59 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Mont Aiguille: Climbed by some Yokel in 1492. How hard can it be?:
Mark said, "Mont Aiguille , seen from the wonderful RN75 Grenoble to Sisteron road is spectacular. In fact it looks formidable from every aspect. It really is the stand out mountain of the Vercors region or for that matter anywhere in France. It was first..." more
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 1:54:28 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled The Weather! Sounding like a stuck needle in a Vinyl Disc?:
Mark said, "It started badly - I made the call to Chris. I said the weather forecast looked like anything to do with skiing was going to be a bad idea. Or at the very least hut to hut ski touring wasn't going to happen. Yet after nearly 18 years of climbing..." more
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 12:21:54 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Flexibility is the name of the game:
Mark said, "It was a pretty impressive performance from two blokes who thought they were going skiing but ended up suspended from a limestone cliff in the south of France. On the penultimate pitch [which I will concede was airy] Bill mused "At the end of this..." more
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 1:45:50 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Mixed Weather make for Challanges:
Mark said, "My regular skiing companion John Young arrived in Chamonix with an indifferent weather forecast and yet again we needed to be creative in making the most of our 5 days together.The issue was that it is very difficult to go skiing or even ski touring..." more
Monday, May 2, 2016 2:51:40 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Lucky Chamonix Zermatt High Level Route completed.:
Mark said, "The Hewitt brothers; Tim and Ben arrived from Perth Australia to attempt the Chamonix Zermatt Haute Route. Evidently they had done their research well. They had made their booking with me roughly a year ago. They had decided they did not want to..." more
Sunday, April 17, 2016 9:02:03 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled A Picture worth a Thousand words.:
Mark said, "I spent five days ski touring in and around the Chamonix Valley [and a trip to the Aosta Valley and Combloux]There was a group of Peter Craig Barry PatrickPossibly the best way to show case the week is to provide the link to Peter Harper's..." more
Friday, April 8, 2016 6:41:40 PM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Its a bit like skiing only different.:
Mark said, "February was frustrating in that the weather and the temperature was all over the place. Then along came March and the conditions were as good as February was bad. Although it did not snow a lot because there was lots of snow and it stayed cold we..." more
Friday, March 11, 2016 11:58:37 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Strange Times..:
Mark said, "Mid February is meant to be the best time of the year to ski . But not last week. It rained . Not snow but rain . There is little more demoralizing than being in a ski resort and its chucking it down.I was in Megeve to ski with Charles and..." more
Friday, February 19, 2016 7:21:12 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Half Term week is a very good time to ski off piste:
Mark said, "It might seem counter intuitive to come skiing at half term when both the English and French schools are on holiday if your looking for piece and quiet. But if your primary goal is to ski off-piste then its good bet. This is probably because parents..." more
Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:02:09 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Off piste and personal... with Mark Seaton, mountain guide:
Mark said, "Short interview with me by Francesca White , journalist for the Tatler writing a piece for Wimbledon Clinics blog.Off piste and personal... with Mark Seaton, mountain guide"
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 2:44:08 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Just going out side and I may be some time.:
Mark said, "Anyone who has ever spent time in the mountains will have at some stage mimicked captain Oates famous last words Yet it is not often that it is said in the company of a direct descendant of Robert Falcon Scott - Scott of the Antarctic.It is a..." more
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 7:10:06 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Big Melt:
Mark said, "Season continues to be weird. One minute it promises to get really good with lots of snow , then it starts raining again. The key to getting good off-piste skiing is to be flexible and mobile.Reuben and Fiona joined me for 4 days . On the Tuesday..." more
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 1:45:14 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Drink as Much Ski as Much : The Excess Men.:
Mark said, "They don't like change : Over the last 20 years they turn up on the same last weekend in January , stay in the Hotel de la Couronne , drink in the Office bar , dance on tables the in the Savoy Bar ,induce severe hangovers , BUT to their ever lasting..." more
Monday, January 25, 2016 12:16:26 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Klosters : If there is a better skiing resort show me it.:
Mark said, "If you can arrange it try and get to Klosters just before the World Economic Forum which is held in the neighbouring resort of Davos. The reason is shortly after leaving the motorway at Chur there is a road block with Tanks and the Swiss Army [who..." more
Thursday, October 13, 2016 6:43:35 AM
Mark Seaton wrote a blog post titled Final week of the Alpine climbing season:
Mark said, "It did not start well. The Stellar weather we had enjoyed for about a month had come to a big full stop. The forecast was poor for the entire alps. This coincided exactly with the arrival of David Brooksbank. I met David with the inevitable..." more