The Ben Lawers Five: peak-bagging perfection

November 3, 2021 Trip reports an stuc, ben lawers, britain, hill walking, munro bagging, munros, peak bagging, scotland, scrambling 2 Comments

You’ve heard of the Famous Five and the Jackson Five, and you may even remember the Dave Clark Five, but if you’ve never heard of the Ben Lawers Five then you’re missing out – it’s one of the great days out for Munro baggers.

Peak bagging the Cuillin ridge on Scotland’s Isle of Skye

October 31, 2018 Trip reports andy hogarth, britain, cuillin ridge, hill walking, inaccessible pinnacle, isle of skye, munro bagging, munros, scotland, scrambling, sgurr alasdair, sgurr nan gillean 1 Comment

Our aim was to climb as many of the 11 Munros on the main Cuillin ridge as we could in a series of day hikes, including the infamous Inaccessible Pinnacle, the only Munro that’s a technical rock climb. But the weather forecast was dreadful, and I knew from experience that would make a big difference on these peaks.

The Corno Grande and Corno Piccolo traverse

July 19, 2017 Trip reports abruzzo, apennines, corno grande, corno piccolo, edita, gran sasso, hill walking, italy, pizzo d'intermesoli, scrambling, via ferrata 1 Comment

The Corno Piccolo and Corno Grande traverse is a classic day hike and scramble that is not for novices. It’s a must for any fit and experienced hill walker who visits the Apennines. Here it is, described in English for the very first time (I think).

Climbing Sapitwa Peak, Mulanje, the highest peak in Malawi

October 1, 2014 Trip reports africa, edita, flora, inselbergs, malawi, mulanje, peak bagging, sapitwa peak, scrambling, small steps adventure tours, trekking, wildlife, zambia 14 Comments

Not only does the Mulanje Massif in southern Malawi contain some of the loveliest trekking you will find anywhere, but to climb its highest point, 3002m Sapitwa Peak, involves a very unusual scramble indeed. Here’s my account of our ascent.

The world’s most terrifying ridge walk

May 23, 2012 Expedition dispatches altitude junkies, chongba sherpa, climbing fatalities, everest, exhaustion, ian cartwright, margaret watroba, mark dickson, scrambling, summit day, tibet 21 Comments

This is a short post briefly describing our successful ascent of Everest by the North Ridge on Saturday 19 May. I’ll describe it in more depth in a later post, once I’ve recovered from summit exhaustion and had more time