On Christmas Eve, my climbing partner, Mike Kearns and I went into the Ghost to climb This House of Sky. This is a classic Rockies ice climb and recently made Barry Blanchard’s list of Top 10 Rockies moderates. The temperatures improved throughout the week and we left Canmore at a balmy -3 degrees celcius. The […]

Ice Climbing Beowulf Yam guide James Madden has the ice section of the ACMG alpine training coming up in January and to fine tune his readiness he took Senior Guide Nick Sharpe and I out to climb Beowulf in the Ghost. James has been training very hard with Nick acting as his mentor and he wanted to do a […]

Tension was in the air. The thermometer read -21°C and the stoves were not cooperating. The soldiers thought they were in for a night of misery. After five days on the ski hills around Banff, it was time to take the British soldiers on the overnight exercise. Half the soldiers had never set foot on […]