Saturday 29th June 2019 (and the evening before) ‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page’, Greta’s Travel We have landed in Moscow, the capital city of Russia! Approximately 13.2 million people live here. It is additionally the second most crowded city in Europe and the eleventh biggest…

Friday 28th June 2019 ‘Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire’, Jennifer Lee We have chosen the first two weeks of July as the main climbing season is June-September.  With Elbrus having a permanent snow line at around 3350, and temperatures rarely rising above freezing at night we felt July may…

Saturday 22nd – Sunday 23rd June 2019 Cairngorms National Park “Not all who wander are lost”, J.R.R. Tolkien So this weekend is our last weekend before our Russian adventure begins. We wanted to make this one a wild, long and pretty hard going adventure to train (some may say punish) the body and mind. Our…

Sunday 16th June 2019 Invervar, Glen Lyon Today we were heading back out on the hills of Scotland and it felt good. It had been 3 whole weeks since ‘therapy’ and today we agreed if it was rain, hale or snow…we were still heading out, it was time to dust off those cobwebs. As our…

 Thursday 27th June 2019  “The biggest adventure you can take us to live the life of your dreams”,                                                                   Oprah Winfrey  Mount Elbrus is the…

 Wednesday 26th June 2019 ‘Life has no remote, get up and change it yourself’!   RUSSIA!?  The Story So Far… So yeah! Why Russia.  I am kind of wondering/thinking the same thing…how did this actually come about…I wonder, have you ever dug yourself into a hole that is so deep you cannot climb back out….well…