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A bit about us Kevan and Liz, a married couple living in Lewisham, South London England that's in Europe for our American friends, along with our cats.
Lizzie has a passion for Rum and Coke, Kevan enjoys a nice glass of red wine. We both enjoy chocolate! And are vegetarians. We suspect that at least one of the cats sneaks into the fridge to snaffle the odd chocolate but they do not share our thoughts on vegetarianism!
2008 News
June 2008
Expanding our Alpine adventures a little, we had a week in
Mayrhofen. Still plenty of snow about on the high routes giving us the
opportunity to try a little glacier trekking but unfortunately the snow made
it a little unsafe for us to reach the top of the two highest mountains in
the region, The Olperer and Ahornspitze. These will have to wait for another
year.
One of the week's highlights was finding a new adventure sport
- Via Ferrata - a mix between scrambling and climbing using metal holds
bolted into the rock.
Lizzie was also pleased to have met one of her heroes, Peter
Habeler who made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen.
Our Mayrhofen slideshow can be viewed
September 2008 - Back to Chamonix for two weeks
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Both of us were encouraged to get out into the countryside by our respective parents and learnt to appreciate the land around us at an early stage. It has however only been in the past few years that we rekindled this love of the countryside. In the past few years we have completed a number of Long Distance Paths , The Coast to Coast, Dales Way, South Downs Way and North Downs Way but our enthusiasm for long trails has diminished a little preferring the challenge of high mountain routes in The Alps
We started climbing indoors a few years ago as a way to keep fit and gain confidence on some of the more difficult mountain paths and scrambles and whilst we do not have the opportunity to climb outside very much we always take advantage of our holidays to climb in the Alps.
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