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Winter's come early

Winter is starting to shape up already, with early mixed and ice routes in Scotland, some good ski touring in the Alps, and even a dusting of snow on the Lake District fells this morning. Whilst many are dreaming of a white Christmas, others are making their plans for 2019. This newsletter features some inspirational forthcoming trips, last minute gift ideas, and great deals.

Latest trip availability

Winter Toubkal 🇲🇦

Fancy a Christmas Day with a difference? Climb the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. There's already good snow cover, and we've already had our first winter ascents. Just £525 for the week 22-29 Dec 2018. Link.

Chamonix Off Piste 🇫🇷

A full week of ski guiding and instruction, led by IFMGA guides so you can ski on stunning glaciers like the Vallée Blanche, on any day during the week. Just £799 inc accommodation. Next date 27 Jan - 2 Feb 2019. Link.

Get avvy savvy 🇫🇷🇬🇧

Avalanches don't just occur. Generally humans trigger the avalanches they are caught in. Book an early winter season training day in either Chamonix (link) or the Lake District (link), to learn key safety skills and transceiver usage.

Val de Cogne ice 🇮🇹

Spend a full week ice climbing in the North Italian mecca for this amazing sport. The icefalls have already seen some early season ascents! £1449 for 5 days climbing & 1/2 board hotel in Cogne. Next date 10-16 Feb 2019. Link.

Scottish Winter Skills 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We offer three different levels of Scottish Winter courses, from an Winter Skills Weekend (link), Winter Intro Week (link), or Scottish Tech Week (link), with dates from early January to late March 2019. View all Scottish trips; link.

Winter Alpine weeks 🇫🇷

On the week of 27 Jan - 2 Feb 2019, we've got people on both our Winter Alpine Intro £899 (link), and Chamonix Snowshoeing £799 (link), and there's space for a couple more on each trip, so move quickly to grab these spaces.

Brochure & website 🇬🇧

We are celebrating our 19th year, and if you haven't seen our new brochure yet, view it online (link). We've also overhauled and expanded our mobile website (link), to make it easier to view when you are on the go.

Mountain news

Worldwide news 🏔

Connor Herson free climbs El Cap aged just 15 (link). RIP Peter Hutchinson, PHD founder (link). Grivel celebrates its 200th anniversary (link). Ant Middleton climbs Everest (link). Ben Tibbetts completes all Alpine 4000m peaks (link).

UK mountain news 🇬🇧

Helvellyn fell top assessors start daily reports (link). BAIML leaders enjoyed a CPD day of mountain running (link). Kingsley gave a talk at the Kendal Mountain Festival (link). Cairngorm funicular and ski school close (link).

Good luck to our Aconcagua 6959m teams. We have just two remaining dates with space in the coming months (link) on 5 - 23 Jan 2019 and 2 - 20 Feb 2019.

Christmas offers!

Black Diamond SALE

All our range of Black Diamond jackets has a flash sale of -30% OFF all items, and there's only a few final items available in each category. Keep warm this winter! There's super warm jackets like the Cold Forge. Take a look. Link.

Inov8 -30% SALE

We've taken -30% off the whole range of Inov8 trail and fell running shoes for just 48 hours (until Wednesday evening at 20:00 GMT), including the classic Mudclaw 300's, funky Trailtalon 250's, or iconic Roclite 305's. Link.

Ortovox 3+ pack SALE

Get avalanche safe, with this Ortovox 3+ transceiver, Beast snow shovel and 240cm pfa light probe, all together in a presentation box, now reduced to just £300 in total. This great set is all top spec and tough equipment. Link.

Running books SALE

We couldn't stop Kingsley flogging his award-winning Chamonix trail running book (link), or his newer Lake District book (link). Books can even be signed on request. Both include free GPX file downloads. Sale -20% OFF, just £11.95.

Icicle gift vouchers

Not sure what to get for Christmas? These sure beat getting another pair of socks, and can be applied against our courses, or retail purchases in our store. Just select a value from £35, £50, £75, £100 or £250. Link.

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