The 2010 season is now over. We've had a fantastic time meeting and climbing with all of you who joined us this year, but what can we say about the weather, probably the worst summer for climbing Mont Blanc that we can remember in 22 years here. In 2009 over 85% of our courses made the summit, this year it was more like 35%; week after week of good weather last year made us think about revising our advertised average "66% chance of good weather" upwards, but certainly not after this year, it may even need to go down a bit. Fortunately, as we were mostly stopped by high winds on the summit rather than precipitation, we could often attempt other challenging mountains (some of which were actually quite a bit harder than Mont Blanc!), so there was still plenty of fantastic climbing to do. The way our courses are set up gives us as high a success rate as possible, but even in the best years bad weather is always a possiblility, and it is best to come prepared for that. More often than not you'll get a shot at the top, but when you don't your time will always be filled with as much adventurous mountaineering as possible, all of which of course will hugely help your chances when the day does come. And well done of course to those of you who did make it!