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Aoraki / Mt Cook
Jones Route 1000 m VI,4
First ski descent 5.5 / E4
1st November 2025
R Hewitt, W Rowntree, S Smoothy
It was a year in the wait for me.
In 2024 I attempted this with Gee & Lusti, but poor icy conditons and a battering from the wind made it an easy choice to descent from mid height. Look closely at @mathurinvth.pics aurora australis shot for our head torches mid-height.
Fast forward to 2025 where I was very lucky that my great friends @outdoorswithrowntree & @samsmoothy invited me to join them for spring in NZ. Things started to align despite some rowdy storms that kept us pinned in the valley. 487.5 mm of precip in a week just before! That’s Europe entire snowfall from Nov-Jun at once.
The vision was to ski the series of spines that characterise this route. A 400 m spine leads to the headwall, a traverse left on an exposed ramp crosses 3 spines, then 2 more spines led past the overlaps to the exit gully and summit ridge near Middle Peak.
We left Plateau hut at 1am skinning across the shrund before donning plates. The night air was cold and still (only our 2nd windless day in 5 weeks). A gorgeous sun rise brought much needed warming rays to frozen fingers just as we entered the exit gully. Here we encountered some black ice which put doubts in my head but after 30 mins, Will and myself constructed a decent abseil anchor. We topped out finding ourselves in a mellow flat spot on the summit ridge and stoke built. Any doubts I had were replaced by a growing excitement & confidence we’re going to do this. This was partly due to relief in swapping from the insecurity of crampons in ultra steep powder to the security of skis, partly it seemed like the universe was aligning and all the signs were calling to me, partly being with my most trusted & best mates.
At 8 am we started down. The route was everything you can possibly imagine & a whole lot more. Ultra steep, technical, exposed, wonderful, perfect snow. Full engagement mentally & physically On the glacier below so happy, hugs, emotional, exhausted.
09 Nov 2025
1st Descent of The Missing Link: Poire - Major - Sentinelle or diagonal of Mont Blanc’s Brenva Face.
A vision quest adventure that’s been in the making for a decade. The simple aim to connect the best skiing on those massive snowfields. While studying the face over the years the stretching shadows gave up some of her secrets but it could take a lifetime for the serac bench to be traversable on skis, or it might never happen.
From initial ideas that one rarely dared to dream about, a vision was born, clear as day, but who else could see it. It grew into obsession, was that blinding me from the truth? Would the dream become a nightmare!
Grandiose on a scale impossible to convey with mere worlds. Gigantic snowfields, towering skyscrappers of ice, swathes of golden granite and 4000 ft of abyss to the glacier. Like the Grand a canyon but GRANDER, or maybe more akin to the Himalaya giants.
Adventurous, intense, massively intimidating, all-consuming and utterly brilliant ✨. 1 x 60 rappel.
We left Cosmiques before 1 am and it was exceptional cold in the wind and I skinned from Col de la Brenva with exped down jacket, goggles, mitts and boot heaters on full.
A massive thanks to @nico__borgeot and @gaspard_buro for this huge undertaking and to @joecollinson110 for the wicked drone shot on the cover taken when we skied Sentinelle Rouge a month ago.
Time for a chill soon!
06 Jun 2024
Mont Blanc’s West Face - Tardivel with new exit variation.
I’m in the lucky position to have skied most of the biggest & best ski lines off Mont Blanc including the Saudan, Benedetti, Peuterey Ridge, Poire-Major-Sentinelle, Sentinelle Rouge, Col de la Brenva, Brenva Spur, so naturally i started to look around for the next big adventure.
Last year the penultimate run I skied with Tof was the Benedetti on the West Face of Mont Blanc. It was his first run on that Himalayan sized face and he was ecstatic when we skied out the bottom and on that snow saddle about the Quintino Sella he gave me a massive bear hug. Nearly a decade had passed since I skied the Saudan there and looking around I spotted the serac barrier at the base of the Tardivel had shrunk and you could now ski a direct exit down a couloir beside it. So I added it to the ever increasing ‘black book’ of things you hope to get done in this lifetime but have no chance of doing half of it. Now we just needed a window and the last 9 months it’s been snowy!
So when we saw a workable 1 day window, I teamed up with the ever enthusiastic Fay Manners to go have a big adventure on the Tardivel line that had not yet seen a repeat during the passage of 31 years. He’d given this line 5.3 providing it with the allure of being the easiest line in the face, and that still hadn’t enticed anyone over all those years…for sure it would be hard.
We camped on Col du Midi and got up to a frigid morning. For breakfast Fay started tucking into a tandoori sandwich and was soon offering me some. ‘No thanks, I’m having muesli and coffee’. Needless to say staring the day with an Indian meal would have serious repercussions…enough said.
Of course we got the full adventure and the route with the snowpack of this era is considerably harder than the other routes next to it that I’ve skied.
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18 Jun 2024
Anyone else as excited for winter as me?
Yep, I’m still obsessed by skiing.
Still dreaming about wild and savage places, that feeling of weightlessness shredding powder down mountainsides, getting out the valley to catch the wintering sun alpine.
I’m just finishing a month of intensive preparation training at the Central European Rehab Sports facility which has been awesome and then it’s back to Chamonix for the winter season.
And yes I will be guiding so if you are interested in options, drop me a message.
22 Oct 2026
Contamine - Col Bonhomme - Refuge Bonhomme - Crete Gittaz - Gorge Gittaz - Col Gittaz - Col Joly - Contamine Orange piste. 7 hr loop, mega.
29 Sep 2026
Out of line
23 Sep 2026
Day hit mtb Tour of Mont Blanc
This ride has been bouncing around in my head as a tester and milestone for me getting back to my normal fitness before the ski mountaineering season.
The summer heatwave was a massive turn off for me to attempt any day endurance missions but as September came around with cooler temps and some rain glued the trails back together, I saw an opportunity before the days get too short and the frosty mornings hit.
I had not ridden longer than 8 hours in the lead up so my plan was to start from a bivi up Tete de Balme at the head of the Chamonix Valley and finish in le Fayet. I wanted to step it up from my previous rides but not overcommit to a door to door lap as my now uneven sit bones have been the limiting factor on rides up till now.
I enjoyed a beautiful hot evening in the sun with wonderful sunset, alpine tranquility with the sounds of cow bells in the distance. My alarm woke me at 0530 for a breakfast of coffee and pain au chocolat. I’d expected it to be around 10C but climbing onto my bike at 0550 I couldn’t stop shivering and decided to take my bivi jacket with me and stow it somewhere en route.
The descent to trient is steep and amazing and would be the hardest of the day even without the darkness, but with the greasy dew, dark and tyre pressures set for long distance, it had been playing on my mind to take the easier 4x4 option. However the rock had remained dry and I decided to go for it, and my worries quickly dissolved as I flowed down familiar terrain to Trient.
From there I went to Forclaz and took intermittent trails to Martigny before settling into a rhythm for the 2000 m climb to the Col Grand Ferret at 2536 m. Here the alpages are replaced by the dramatic glaciated scenery of the Mont Blanc Massif and it’s definitely the most beautiful corner of the tour. A quick descent brought me to Skyway 6.5 hours in where I enjoyed a sandwich and coffee while the bike charged.
Time and daylight were marching and after a quick battery top up at Combal I rode harder through the second half arriving in St Gervais after 5 hrs 20, grabbing a sandwich and a beer before the last hour home.
17 Sep 2026
Tour of Mont Blanc on mtb.
The runners and tourists have dwindled and we had some rain to make the trails tacky, so when @marco_malcangi said he was keen, the opportunity was too good to resist.
I’d been pondering doing this all summer, a test for me to see where I am on the rehab path back to my normal levels of strength and endurance. When I got out of hospital in May and cycled 0.5 km on the flat, I needed to sleep for 2 hours! So it seems we are getting somewhere.
The main route objective was to go to Col Malatra for the mega descent to Courmayeur, thus avoiding the 400 m lower Col Grand Ferret with all the drainage ditches and trailers.
Varied trails, beautiful backdrops 🏔️ , solitude thru Malatra and Beaufortain, circus of tourists between Bovine and Champex, Eagles 🦅, vultures, horses 🐎 in the high alpages, great Italian coffee ☕️.
Still buzzing and looking forward to more of this.
What do you think, ride or run it?
03 Sep 2026
6 months ago a pocket released while I was stationary and took me for a ride over 2 rock bands. The second one was pretty big and the impact was huge. 5 fractures of the pelvic ring, one I. The sacrum and 5 in the spine.and a litre of blood loss internally.
This week was another milestone as I met with my surgeon who gave me the go ahead to do anything I want.
I’ve got a lot to be thankful for - the friends and rescue team that got me off the mountain, Aosta Emergency team, Professor Boudissa and his incredible surgical team at Grenoble University Hospital, Bonneville rehab centre for working me so hard, the unconditional support from family and friends to boost moral and bring me nutritious food that was so badly needed to recover, ELA for the hundreds of nutritious wraps, @scienceinsport | SIS for the supplements - I’ve needed a huge amount of protein to regain 15 kg of muscle lost off my legs, Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix, British Mountain Guides, Salomon Foundation, Neil at Clinic du Sport for the amazing physio and coaching and all the well wishers, I tried responding to you all at the time but off the scale pain, sedation and fighting pneumonia mean some periods blurred into others.
Looking forward the next month will be a mixture of weight training, climbing and biking before spending October at CERS / Cap Breton for full immersion in rehab before the ski season.
20 Aug 2026
It’s taken me a while to look back at the 25/26 ski season.
It started so well in September skiing with the wing then down under in New Zealand with my besties @outdoorswithrowntree & @samsmoothy slaying it adding a descent of the Jones route on Cook to the list with The Dragon’s Back and Syme to the diamond studded memories.
Then back to Chamonix with early autumnal snow and days with great friends skiing technical descents and freeride.
Unfortunately the season was cut short for me after 110 days when my body exploded on impact with 11 fractures, fortunately nothing a high pain threshold, fentanyl, a world class surgeon and amazing friends support can’t fix.
Now I’m back training like a demon for next winter, the passion for skiing as strong as ever.
18 Jun 2026
Memories from 2 years ago dropping in to make a link route down the Poire - Major - Sentinelle Rouge zone of Mont Blanc with Gaspard Buraud @nico_borgeot
06 Jun 2026
Arete de peuterey en ski - memories
03 Jun 2026
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