Just a heads-up that I’m taking a break from posting for a week while I’m away. Normal service will resume on Tuesday 9^th April.

Katie x

With decades of experience in the mountains, Becky Coles is the person you want in charge of your expedition. An adventure travel specialist and expedition leader, she has travelled to more than 70 countries on all seven continents, achieving everything from multiple first climbing ascents as far afield as Antarctica to crossing the Lut Desert on foot.

This year, the Montane ambassador has teamed up with fellow mountaineers Mo Barclay and Lou Beetlestone to attempt a challenge no woman (or Brit) has achieved so far: to summit all 82 of the  4000m peaks in the Alps in one year. You can read more about this below, as Becky talks about the challenges it will bring.