Andreas Fransson

Teasing The Rat

The last week has been a constant spree of beautiful mountain days. I have kept on combining short roping, ski-touring and steep skiing and without doing anything new or hard, just been spending some great days in the mountains with awesome people. The English say that you are “feeding the rat” when you are doing […]

Chamonix Adventuring

Chamonix Adventuring

Lately the weather has been great in Chamonix. Memories of a past season of powder skiing are slowly fading away and the high mountains have been calling out for alpine adventures. I have done my best to use the weather windows combining my passion for mountain skiing with training for the upcoming guide exams this […]

Our Great South America Adventure – Here Is The Movie

Our Great South America Adventure – Here Is The Movie

In the autumn of 2010 Bjarne Salén and myself took of for one of the biggest adventures of our lives. The goal was to climb, ski and film the highest mountain in every country in the South American Andes from Ecuador in the north to Chile in the south. Those of you who have been […]

Creative Mountain Works

Creative Mountain Works

This past week, friend and photographer Daniel Rönnbäck came by Chamonix for four great days of hard but fun work on Aiguille du Midi and Helbronner. We had perfect and varied conditions for taking pictures, ranging between high pressure for mountaineering action, a snow storm for bad weather photos, the deepest day of the season […]