Field notes.

Five hundred metres of fluted ice, a bergschrund that will not sit still, and why the start time is not a preference. Season notes from the Southwest Face.

The office luggage scale is our most honest colleague. On grams, margins, and the phrase just in case — which never travels alone.

Four to six metres, no slack, no ceremony. Why guides on the Trois Monts keep you close, and what your side of the contract is.

Four clients, two ropes, eight minutes on the summit. The season’s last rotation on the Gergeti Glacier, filed with one open question for 2027.

Recon notes from the peninsula: a retreating glacier tongue, a re-routed descent, and two reserve days that stay exactly where they are.