More New Alpine Images of the Western Bernese Oberland and Matterhorn Areas

Here are a few newly scanned images from a ski mountaineering trip along the Western Bernese Oberland Traverse in Switzerland.

Arpelistock Sunrise Ascent

 Grossstrubel from Schwarzhorn

Schwarzhorn Summit View South 

Wildstrubel View 

Here's a couple from the Saas Fee and Zermatt areas. The Allalinhorn taken while on a ski mountaineering of the Tour of Monte Rosa and the spectacular Matterhorn Sunset was taken while piste skiing.

Allalinhorn Snow Chutes 

Matterhorn Summit Sunset 

New Alpine Images

I have added a lot of new photographs to my web gallery. These are from various trips over the years and include ski mountaineering and skiing.

Locations include:

• the Gran Paradiso area of northwest Italy near Aosta. 
• The Bernese Oberland around Murren. 
• Mountains around Saas Fee, Zermatt and Gressoney.
• Photos from the summit of the Aiguille du Tour near Chamonix.

There are also some aerial shots taken in the Alps from helicopters and in Colorado near Steamboat Springs from a light aircraft. I will do a separate post for these with a few tips as to what worked best.

Jungfrau Ski Tracks

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau (left to right)

Breithorn and Sefinenfurke (on Alpine Pass Route)

Mont Blanc (right) from Aiguille du Tour

La Tsantaleina and Crevasse, Gran Paradiso

Ski Mountaineering Above the Rifugio Benevolo

Room With a View, Rifugio Guglielmina, Gressoney

Strahlhorn from the Allalingletscher

Weissmies from Schwarzberg Weisstor

New Trip Diaries

I finally added several of the trip diaries that were referred to on the web site but never appeared. They are a mixture of ski mountaineering and treks that I have done over the years. I also edited some of the older diaries, to add more detail. The photos will be added later but for now they have a link to the relevant photographs already included in the gallery.
They include:
Tour de Mont Blanc trek, 2 trips, one in each direction
Alpine Pass Route, a trek from Grindelwald to Montreux
Glasgow to Cape Wrath trek including my version of the West HIghland Way and 19 Munro's (Scottish mountains over 3000 feet).
Gran Paradiso Ski Tour, including the ascent of the 4000m peak Gran Paradiso and two 3000m peaks
Otztal Alps Ski Tour, including the ascent of the Wildspitz and 4 other 3000m peaks
Vanoise Alps Ski Tour, including five 3000m peaks
Haute Route Ski Tour from Chamonix to Zermatt (actually from Argentiere just up the valley from Chamonix) including two 3000m peaks - I added lots more detail.
Bernese Oberland Ski Tour from Jungfraujoch above Grindelwald to Reckingen in the south near Brig including four 3000m peaks

If you are interested in this sort of thing I hope you enjoy them.