| Steve & Judy Pardoe's Climbing Pages | ||
Steve on Tryfan, 1955 |
This is our
Climbing index, with links to our Mountaineering reports, Rock Climbing trip reports and tick-list, our information pages, and an archive page of climbing trip reports from the uk.rec.climbing newsgroup and subsequent messages, hosted on our own server. There's a plain vanilla listing of our rock climbing report pages, and
...you can see Steve's own Updated log of rock climbs (in table format), and here are (external) links to UKClimbing.Com, and |
 Mountain picture by Holly |
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Cotopaxi 5,897m (19,347 ft) |
| Ecuador, January 1998 Judy at the summit crater of Cotopaxi. Among the highest active volcanoes in the world, and lying just 75 km south of the equator, Cotopaxi is a popular introduction to the South-American scale. Technically straightforward, considering the altitude, but the route can vary as crevasses change. Thorough acclimatization is essential for a safe ascent of 1,000 metres above the José Rivas refuge at 4,864m. |
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Mont Blanc 4,808m (15,774 ft) |
| France (HS) July 1997 View of the summit ridge from Aiguille du Midi. Although popular, a total effort of 2,550m above Nid d'Aigle (2,386m), and a very exposed summit climb of 1,050m from the Aiguille du Goûter refuge (3,817m), mean that the highest mountain in the Alps should never be underestimated. |
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Mount Whitney 4,421m (14,505 ft) |
| California, USA, July 1996 As the highest mountain in the contiguous 48 US States, Mount Whitney is getting crowded, and permits are now required even for day ascents. The route is generally easy, but there is little safe water available, and the height gain of 2,100 metres over a distance of some 19 km each way makes for a long day. |
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Gran Paradiso 4,061m (13,323 ft) |
| Italy, June 1995 The Gran Paradiso, our first 4000'er, seen from the West. The highest mountain entirely within Italy is very popular, and its principal hut, the superb Vittorio Emanuele II, should be booked well in advance. The ascent involves 2,100 metres of climbing from the valley at Pont. |
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Allalinhorn 4,027m (13,212 ft) |
| Switzerland (VS) June 1995 North face from the start of the normal route. This can be an easy day trip, but there is still objective danger from crevasses, and the temptation to bag it without proper preparation or acclimatization makes it particularly risky. |
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Tour du Mont Blanc 1999 |
| France, Italy & Switzerland, July 1999 The Tour of Mont Blanc, or TMB, is a 200 km (120 miles) hike around the Mont Blanc massif in the European Alps. The route crosses several high passes and takes the traveller through spectacular mountain scenery in France, Italy and Switzerland. Our reports from our first TMB in 1992 and our shorter "Tourettes" version are also on-line. |
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Walkers' Haute Route (part) |
| Switzerland, July 2001 The Walkers' Haute Route is a 170 km (110 miles) mountain hike from Chamonix to Zermatt in the European Alps. The rather arduous route crosses several high passes, and takes the traveller through spectacular, if desolate, mountain scenery in France and Switzerland. Atrocious conditions forced us to abandon this year's attempt. |
| Our rock climbing and similar pages have been moved to another page here
There are also rather out-of-date rock-climbing tick-lists in
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table format, * "Youarsey" is the scatalogical homonym for the uk.rec.climbing user group on the Internet. |
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| Other mountain-related pages... | |||
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Steve bouldering in the 91.1 area of Fontainebleau, July 2009 |
Acclimatization | O2 | a discussion and links to sites on AMS, etc |
| Climbing Links |  |
Minor update 3. August 2020 | |
| Clothing |  | a description of what we wear on the mountains | |
| Manufacturers' links | |
links to climbing equipment manufacturers' websites | |
| Mountain medicine |  |
links to HACE, HAPE and general health topics | |
| North West Face | |
Indoor climbing wall in Warrington, Cheshire | |
| Refuges | |
a discussion and links to sites for French, Italian and Swiss Alpine refuges | |
| St Gervais |  |
an introduction to this ideal base for Mont Blanc, and links to French sites | |
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Webcams, Snow & Weather Forecasts |
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