Euan and I have travelled down to the Ecrins Massif to meet up with some friends and do some climbing and cycling. On sunday we climbed a twelve pitch route on Tete Le Maye above La Berarde called Le Maye Dulfer (TD 6B+). The rock was excellent and had some amazing hanging flakes which were …
Top- Me Summit2nd – Euan SummitLower 2- Me and Euan heading back down with more storms moving in. Yesterdy Euan and I headed to the Albert Premier Hut, with the intention of climbing the Forbes Arete which has seen a few ascents over the last couple of weeks. Unfortunately, when we got up this morning …
Top pic- Is a topo of the second half of the route in the setting sun Yesterday Euan and I headed up on the 11:45 telepherique to the half way station on the Aiguille du Midi. We then walked for about 40mins, which took us to the bottom of our route which was the 3rd …
After our three big days doing Alpine routes. Euan and I dicided to go for some easy sport cragging. Still totally gubbed from the previous few days nothing harder than 6b+ got ticked. But it was fun to get moving on the French sport crags.
On the 16th, Euan and I walked into the Rottal Hutte (hut) below the North face of the Abeniflue. Early the next morning (3am) we walked to the base of our intended route which is the ridge on the right hand side of the face (TD). We had to take a low detour to avoid …
After a few attempts at the redpoint today I got the 7c Marlina at upper cave, Dunkeld. Iv been trying the route for a few days now, and I’m happy to get it before I go to the Alps on the 14th. I was up there with Andrew Innes who was trying Hammish Teddys 7b+, …
