Tag: Mountain

  • Pyrénées trips: Pique Rouge de Bassiès

    Pyrénées trips: Pique Rouge de Bassiès

    On my second trip to the Pyrénées from Toulouse, I walked up Pique Rouge de Bassiès (2676 m). The peak is located nearby to Cascade d’Ars where I walked on my previously trip and is in fact at the head of an adjacent valley.

  • Easter break

    Easter break

    This Easter I headed to Yorkshire to meet up with my friend Stu, we went walking in the Dales, Lake District and then caving.

  • Pyrénées trips: Cascade d’Ars

    Pyrénées trips: Cascade d’Ars

    Whilst living in Toulouse, I went on three walking trips to the Pyrénées, specifically Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises. The first trip was a day trip to Cascade d’Ars, which is near Aulus Les Bains.

  • Hrútsfjallstindar

    Hrútsfjallstindar

    At the end of September, after hoping to do so for several months, I summited Hrútsfjallstindar, one of the tallest mountains in Iceland at 1875 m.

  • Fimmvörðuháls trail between Skógar and Thórsmörk

    Fimmvörðuháls trail between Skógar and Thórsmörk

    In July I was able to walk the Fimmvörðuháls trail between Skógar and Thórsmörk. Fimmvörðuháls is an 1,100 m high mountain pass between the glaciers of Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull, with a popular trail leading from Skógar to Básar.

  • UoN Mountaineers Annual Meet

    UoN Mountaineers Annual Meet

    The first weekend of March was the first annual meet for UoN Mountaineering. The club was formed by the merger of Explorers and MPS a few years ago, and so it was also a reunion for there members. I went on two walks, on the Saturday along High Street and the Sunday up Skiddaw.

  • Norway 2015: Time Lapse photos

    Norway 2015: Time Lapse photos

    On the expedition to Norway this summer I took a number of time lapse photo series. This was my first attempt at taking time lapse photos and in order to show them I have created the attached videos.

  • Norway: Summer 2015

    Norway: Summer 2015

    This September, I went with University of Nottingham Mountaineering on their much anticipated expedition to Norway. Returning to the same location as last year with the aim of cleaning up the debris of a 1950’s glacier survey camp, we had a twelve person team which included two members of the 1959 glacier survey expedition.

  • Attempt at Skiddaw

    Attempt at Skiddaw

    I recently went for a walk with the plan to go up Skiddaw (931 m), the fourth highest mountain in the Lake District. After heavy snow some days before it turned to be more difficult than I expected.

  • Lake District trip in October

    Lake District trip in October

    I went to the Lake District on 16th to 18th October with the UoN mountaineers. On the Saturday I led a walk near Buttermere with a group of new members and on the Sunday went for a scramble up Sour Milk Gill and then up Great Gable.