Remember that striking image of 200-odd climbers in a line moving up the Lhotse Face of Everest last spring? Well you can read the summit report from one of the climbers in that queue, Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton, in the latest issue of Trek & Mountain, on sale now. It’s an amazing story, and not all negative too.
Staying on the Everest theme, we have a trekking guide to six of the best treks in the Everest region, written by guidebook-writing legend Kev Reynolds, and elsewhere in the issue we have a reader report from Richard Turner who recently climbed Italy’s alpine 4000’er, Gran Paradiso, on a warm-up climb for Mont Blanc.
This month’s Karrimor-sponsored ‘Great British Mountain Day’, comes from the Isle of Skye and is an awesome scrambling circuit taking in the twin summits of Blabheinn, and described and illustrated by mountain leader and photographer Jose Navarro.
On the gear front we have an exclusive review of Garmin’s sexy new Fenix GPS watch, a Group Test of hiking/trekking waterproofs and a round-up of 6 of the best gaiters on the market, plus a load more kit we’ve been using this month.
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