Category: 7 Summits Expeditions

Training for everest The first question I’m asked when I tell people I’m going to Everest is (after WHY CLIMB IT?) what type of training I do. The simple answer is, I’ve been training for it since I decided to climb the 7 summits back in April 2014. That’s four years of dedicated, intense training.…

Carstensz Pyramid Mar ’17 (6th ‘7summit’) Carstensz is near the Equator so there is no ‘season’ to climb it. “There’s bad weather all year around” or as I approached it, you can attempt to climb it anytime! And because organising an expedition to the mountain is a logistical nightmare, you really are in the hands…

Carstensz Pyramid Mar ’17 (6th ‘7summit’) The noise of the tent’s cheap nylon wildly flapping right by my head woke up me. Weather forecast was right; it has been a windy night at Camp Colera, 6000m. I am buried deep into my sleeping bag, it is warm and cosy. I check my watch, 10 minutes…

Climbing Denali / Mt. McKinley, la Preparation In January this year I knew Ihad to make up my mind and decide which company I wanted to climb with and book it as all groups were filling up quickly. I had four months to train, which seemed long at the time. To keep myself busy in…

Climbing Denali/ McKinley 9-23 June, la Expedition The highest mountain in North America with a summit elevation of 20,320 feet/ 6,186m, Denali or Mt McKinley in Alaska was going to be my highest mountain of the 7 summits. It is the third most prominent peak after Everest and Aconcagua (lowest point to summit) from the…

Climbing Denali / Mt. McKinley la Summit and Death March “Monday 22 June SUMMITED!!!! Day ‘who knows and counts anymore’ on the mountain We moved to High Camp 17,200’ yesterday.. as I suspected the fixed lines were my favourite parts and boy we had two long sections of them. The move goes like this; attach…

Antarctica, the coldest desert in the world “Team, we are turning back. We can climb in complete white-out, extreme cold or high winds. But when you have all three elements against you it’s safer to turn around” said Mike, our guide and seven times Vinson summitter. It was soul destroying, quite frankly. We had all…

The climb It’s 3pm on Tuesday 10th of June. I’m back in the comfort of my tent at Base Camp and decided to sum up the previous 8 days.. It’s not easy! When I landed in Minerlanye Vody on the 2nd and after waiting for an hour at the airport, a taxi driver turned up…