For most hillwalkers and climbers from the British Isles leaving our shores and tackling the mountains of our nearest neighbours for the first time, the barriers to success and enjoyment often seem overwhelming and a bigger challenge than they are wishing to tackle.
In this short series of articles we explore the differences between the UK [...]

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Well it’s been a while in the writing but I’ve finally managed to get around writing the story of our trip to Chamonix. The weekend started less than auspiciously with damp, inclement weather gathering overhead. We packed like there was no tomorrow to enable us to shut up shop at 12 to give us [...]

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I mentioned a couple of posts ago that we had been on a Webtogs jolly out to the Alps, where everyone thats the warehouse team, techies& gear freaks had a go at traversing the Valee Blanche. I’ve been slack at writing a post (it is coming, honest!) but one thing I did manage to get [...]

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There is possibly no better known mountain in the world than the Matterhorn. Ask any child to draw a picture of a peak, and the resulting shape will no doubt bear a passing resemblance to this iconic emblem of the Swiss Alps. For mountain guides working on the Matterhorn it is like no other mountain, [...]

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Another update from Nick after his first report back to us – we challenged the fact that he was using his Newport Sandals as we didn’t get any pics. So he sent us a couple which you can see below.

“Things are warming up for the our film crew here in Vietnam as we get [...]

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Here at Webtogs, we are lucky enough to have some fairly gnarly mates, and they don’t come any gnarlier than Keiths buddy Nick Parks (not be confused with Aardman animation!) Nick is a full IFMGA Mountain Guide, and has been leading mountain expeditions on skis and on foot for almost 20 years, journeying with [...]

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