Despite the best efforts of the storms, the snow, a bear and all those ridiculous mountains someone put in the way, I arrived back at sea-level yesterday at 16:20, just over 7 weeks after leaving Hendaye. The journey (which was roughly 800km with 40,000m of climbing) took 50 days, 20 hours and 50 minutes in… Read more
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Canigou baby, yeah!
When I left Estany Bleu, my home on Friday night, I climbed back onto the ridge I’d been following from the top of the Vallée d’Eyne, and carried on heading east. The guidebook suggested dropping down to Refuge Ull de Terr but I’d been advised to stick to the ridge, so I bagged a few… Read more
Mr Bear is hungry
Yesterday morning began with an hour and a quarter climbing up a steep scree on the western face of Pic Carlit – the highest mountain in the Eastern Pyrenees at 2921m, and the last time the HRP goes that high. The descent wasn’t generally as steep, but there were sections where it required scrambling using… Read more
Going solo
The highest point in the UK is Ben Nevis, at 1344m. Since I left Lescun on 26th June (over a month ago), I hadn’t been below that level until yesterday, when Klaas and I hitched down to Ax-les-Thermes to find some decent shops. We had a pretty successful trip, finding fuel for the stoves, maps… Read more