Rich sliced his knee up good and proper.
Bleedin’ heck
Author: Chris Tanner
Scruffian
James and Marc in Devon. James taking a swig of his namesake and national beverage …
Les Tournesols
Parked up for the night somewhere in northern France. I like the French word for sunflowers – “Tournesols”. Does what it says on the tin. Sunflowers spend their day twisting their necks around to face the sun, and then when the sun goes down, they hang their heads for a rest, ready for the next day. Over and over and over.
Chamonix
I love this photo. It’s from an epic week Jon and I had in the French Alps – the Chamonix valley. We’d spent the first few days trying to get up the Aiguille Du Midi with massively oversized packs, then decided that wasn’t such a great idea, had a rest in town then went back up the cable car to spend an awesome few days in the Vallée Blanche / Col du Midi.
Dinorwic quarry
Taken from the top of an unknown climb of Rob, moving very elegantly and calmy (as usual) up a crack line. Dan belaying, Tommy watching on. It’s an awesome place to climb – the slate is clean, the lines are aesthetic and the place has a powerful sense of history. Dinorwic, North Wales.
Batian and Nelion
Mount Kenya has two peaks; Batian at 1,199m and Nelion at 5,188m. When climbing up from Pt. Lenana (the route we took) you climb Nelion first and then have to abseil into the notch between the two before climbing Batian. Here’s Dan abseiling down. I clearly remember this section; I had kept my rubber climbing shoes on, and moving along the knife edge ridge between the two peaks, sometimes on snow, unroped, was terrifying – even though it can’t have been much more than 5 metres.
Summiteers
Dan and I with the peak of Mt. Kenya in the background. Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa, at 5,199 m (17,057 ft). We’d spent about 4 days climbing up the eastern flanks to acclimatise, and this was taken the day before our summit climb. It was cooooold at night!
Mt. Kenya – Point John
Dan looking back up at Point John. The main peaks of Batian and Nelion are hidden up behind, in the cloud. It looks like another planet!
Chair
Here’s a shot I took of a chair in the air
Road and Ocean 