Adventure Travel Blogs

I am on the Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn trip which is 15 days. Be aware that with a sleeping bag, bed roll, rucksack and walking poles, it does not leave a lot of room for everything else even in an Exodus kit bag. Therefore if you opt for a second bag, Swiss Air Charge £50 each way for the extra bag no matter how much it weighs....

Monday, 25th July, 2011
Isfjorden
 
The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around.
It cracked and growled and roared and howled like noises in a swound.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -  “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
 
I will keep this brief for it is imperative not to throw too much loquacious leather, the adjectival arsenal’s powder thankfully is still dry for tomorrow night’s finale. Mother Nature has opened her...

Sunday, 24th July, 2011
Bellsund
 
“Give me this glorious ocean life, this salt-sea life, this briny, foamy life, when the sea neighs and snorts, and you breathe the very breath that the great whales respire!  Let me roll around the globe, let me rock upon the sea; let me race and pant out my life, with an eternal breeze astern, and an endless sea before.”   

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

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