European Alps

Skills

• Mini-guide: Backpacking in the Alps

Long-distance walking

• Grande Traversée du Mercantour – a long-distance trail of exceptional quality in the Maritime Alps
• The Tour of Monte Rosa – a 100-mile circumnavigation of the Monte Rosa massif
• Aosta to Evolene via the Col Collon – my first backpacking trip to the Alps

Mountaineering

• A Test of Mettel — ten years after first climbing Mettelhorn, I return to find huge changes
• The Ascent of Sasseneire – an accessible 3,000m peak
• A Single Moment: Alpine Bivouac – a night on Stockhorn’s summit

Other essays

• The Decaying Alps: climate change and glacial retreat in the Playground of Europe