Planning a day’s hike:- Allow; 15 minutes per km as measured on the map (20 mins if the ground is rough and the path unmarked), Plus, 10 mins per 100m climbed (This gives adequate time to get your breath and enjoy the view . Plus 30 mins for lunch. (130 mins if you find a [...]

To prepare for the Circuit of Alpamayo we did a mini trek after spending a day in Huaraz.  A bus took us to Pitec (3850 m.) from where we walked to Laguna Churup at 4600 m. As I had done this walk the previous year I knew what was in store for me: the last [...]

A splendid trek in the Peruvian Andes Prologue With eight other trekkers I set out for this classic trek. From Lima we travelled by bus to Huaraz (3090 m.), where we met trek leader Chris and where we remained two days to acclimatize. The second day we walked to Laguna Churup (4485 m.) (see photo [...]

Snow Lake trek in the Karakoram, a strenuous trek from Askole to Snowlake along the immense Biafo glacier and from Snow Lake over the Hispar La to Hispar village. These are some of the photographs I took.

This is the fifth time I went to Scotland for a Winter holiday. By Alpine standards the Scottish mountains are not high (the highest is Ben Nevis: 4409 ft), but keep in mind that one has to start from sea level. And the treacherous weather gives walking in Scotland, especially in winter, another dimension: every [...]

Prologue The trek was called ‘The Three Passes of Boroghil’, a high level trek from Chitral to Hunza and like every trek in Pakistan it involved long jeep rides to get to the starting point. The group (9 British, 1 American, 1 Dutch – me – and 2 British trek leaders) left Islamabad by air [...]