by Michael Goude | Apr 16, 2018 | High Altitude, Hiking, Mountaineering
If you missed the previous instalments of my story to climb Mt Elbrus you can click here to read Part One (Days 1 to 4) and Part Two (Days 5 to 7) Day 8 – Saturday 2nd September. Elbrus Summit Day At a quarter past midnight the alarm clock went off. I’m...
by Michael Goude | Apr 16, 2018 | High Altitude, Hiking, Mountaineering
If you missed Part One of my journey to the summit of Elbrus (Days 1 to 4) of this blog you can find it here Setting foot on Elbrus Day 5 – Wednesday 30th August After four days in Russia and three of those spent acclimatising in the mountains, it was...
by Michael Goude | Nov 6, 2017 | High Altitude, Hiking, Mountaineering
Day 1 – Saturday 26th August Paula and I spent the day working on a DofE training event in central London and then it was a short drive to the services at London Gateway to swap vehicles and bags around before I headed to Heathrow and she headed home. It would be...