Which shoes do I use for long mountain routes? OK there's a short answer here and it's.... TC Pros, about a size bigger than if I was fitting them for cragging. But if you want to learn a bit more about the rhyme and reason then I'll give a bit of a run through below. 800m of climbing classic alpine rock on the Petites Jorasses - Contamine Route Choosing the right shoe: Most brands make a shoe for all different disciplines. In short, unless you plan to do a lot of toe hooks

You'll find Jay Knower's complimentary introduction of me entertaining, no doubt. Some of my media tailored views on Scottish winter climbing on the First Ascent Po

I’ve spent a lifetime training, really. I can define the moment I started training as PE class in secondary school where the principles of progressive overload and recorded training were explained to us, before doing a weights session. 25 years later and I still basically apply the same principles to my training, with a few nuances added here and there. But something I think is missed within the media, is how easy training really is. Especially going to the gym. It takes almo

I hear that corporate psychologists are fashionably outlawing the use of the word “but” preferring “and” as it’s more positive. I disagree with this fundamentally, for the same reasons as I disagree with Instaquotes about always being positive. I live as a defensive pessimist – What is the worst that can happen and how will I deal with it? As a result, people are often surprised to hear that I live in a state of happy wonder when my premonitions go unfulfilled. The reason tha

The normal range for core temperature is 36.5°C-37.5°C but in reality we can exceed these temperatures. An extreme but survivable core temperature would be about 41°C, beyond which you’d expect to see organ and brain damage as the body effectively cooks itself very gradually. Scans of people’s brains after suffering heat injuries demonstrate that tissue is damaged as if it’s been cooked! If our core temperature exceeds our safe limit then we may collapse from heat exhaustion.