I've got a bit of a mission for 2015. Cheapskate Adventures A big part of my life has been getting outside and going on adventures. In the new year I want to focus on encouraging people to give the outdoors a go. Here's three good reasons. Get Fit For the price of a gym membership for a couple of months you can get...
"What do we do if it's full?" Conrad laughed. And I had meant it as a joke. Who else would choose to walk off rainy day to spend the night in a cave? We were genuinely surprised when we met a family group of eight already snuggled up playing a game of cards, and taking up most of the cave. We'd spent the...
We had one route in mind: the Nordkante on Piz Badile. A 1000m long line of immaculate granite. It's the sort of route that gets people saying "the finest route in the Alps" and that sort of thing. The only trouble was that it was raining. Another trouble was that the route starts in Switzerland and finishes in Italy. So while it rained...
"Check mate." Jo had beaten me at chess for the first time. She didn't look as smug as I might have thought. We'd been killing time in the Refugio Tosa mountain hut all morning. It was still raining. Two days before we had arrived in a baking hot thirty-three degrees Italy and been cooped up in public transport to get to Molveno. We...