Alex Ratson

05/28/2024

03/11/2022

I’ve always had a spot in my heart for The Canadian Rockies in winter.
takes a moment to enjoy the presence of this iconic mountain range atop The Professor Falls on Mount Rundle this past Monday.

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03/08/2022

Happy to all the lady’s out there. You are all so inspiring!
Although not at all planned it was quite suiting to spend the day with my one and only and climb Tokkum Pole at Marble Canyon in Kootenay National Park.
Thanks to for dispatching the lead on this one!

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03/04/2022

Oh wait a second, you want ME, that guy who doesn’t really know how to swim and sorta panics when in the water to ‘swim’ through an underground lava tube that’s fully flooded?
Internally I was saying HELL NO although externally I did what I always try to do when scared which is to reach for my cameras and use it as a shield between me and my fears. Face to face fear is scary although looking at it through a viewfinder isn’t so bad… I guess that why the warring says “objects may appear further away then they really are” 😜

swims through the pristine waters of a flooded, underground lava tube formed during a 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa on Hawaii’s Big Island


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03/03/2022

That time in Hawaii we went up the wrong mountain yet it turned out to be better than the right one!
looks out at Mauna Kea from high up on it’s sister volcano Mauna Lau.
Although Mauna Kea is unquestionably the more popular destination due to its title of being ‘the tallest’ and being home to a large observatory Mauna Loa is unquestionably the more lively and active volcano with its most recent eruption occurring in 1985 which was quite evident while hiking around on its not so ancient lava flows.


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02/28/2022

Trying to make boring crap look somewhat more interesting.
1/2 second exposure of an otherwise sloow rappel

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02/25/2022

Jaws 🦈 or an ice climbers secret lair?


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02/24/2022

Nothing like enjoy a cold and fresh Pilsner 🍻 Pillar ⛏


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02/18/2022

Nothing like a Dark & Stormy on the rocks! 🥃🍸

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02/17/2022

Forest mountaineering in the North Shore Mountains with this week.
Do not be fooled though, although the trees might extend to the summit of these peaks your car is parked somewhere beside that ocean which equals some pretty big uphill gains!

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