Nordenskiold

Date:

03.04.2007

Sukkertoppen

Date:

25.03.2007

Lars Hiertafjellet

Date:

24.02.2007

Trollsteinen

Date:

17.02.2007

Mont Blanc de Cheilon

Date:

08.08.2005

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

© Hannah Vickers Monday 8th August 2005: Leysin – Arolla – Dix Hut The ascent of Mont Blanc de Cheilon was the first peak of a week-long student mountaineering course. Unusually we were a group of five girls (we didn’t know each other before the course started) with a Swedish alpine guide named Dick. Our preparations for the week kicked off on the first day when the five of us – Lucy, Rosie, Gabie, Anna and me - went on a grocery shopping expedition in the local Coop in Leysin having been handed 200 swiss francs by Dick. Our basket was quickly filled up with cereal bars, chocolate, dried meat and fruits, cheese and bread and some fresh fruit for the journey over to Arolla. After the shopping efforts, we eventually drove out of Leysin and down the winding road into Aigle at the bottom of the valley. The >>>

Cosmiques Arete

Date:

26.07.2003

Monte Rosa traverse

Date:

24.07.2003

Nose of Lyskamm/Piramide Vincent

Date:

22.07.2003

© Hannah Vickers Second day of the Monte Rosa traverse. Started from the Quintino Sella hut. Didn't go over Liskamm for some reason or another (either snow conditions or too much wind, I forget now). Finished at the Gnifetti Hut.

Castor

Date:

21.07.2003

Characteristic:

Alpine trip

© Hannah Vickers Some very old pictures from a trip with the late guide Brede Arkless and Frances. Took the cable car up to the Klein Matterhorn station from Zermatt and went up Castor. Finished at the Quintino Sella hut. Not many memories of that hut, only that the coffee was awful (it tasted terrible at 3am anyway, maybe would have appreciated it more later in the day) and the hut breakfasts were not much better either.

Allalinhorn

Date:

19.07.2002