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My name is Allan Witton, I am a retired Physics teacher and I have been a keen mountain walker for all my adult life. I have been trekking in Britain and abroad for over 50 years, initially with the school where I first taught (Batley Grammar School), then at the school where I taught for 3 decades (The Manchester Grammar School) and more recently with friends and family. When I retired from teaching in 2007 I planned to make a digital archive of the records I have of the treks I was involved in. The purpose of this website is to make that archive more widely available. I have arranged my records of the treks I have been on into two groups.
Manchester Grammar School Foreign Treks This website includes all the archive material I have relating to Trekking at MGS. It includes the illustrated Logs of the all the 23 Foreign Treks I was involved with (16 organised and led, 6 participated in, and one just organised),, from my first in the Dolomites in 1980 to my last in the Maritime Alps in 2005, together with some other aspects of the history of Trekking at MGS.
In 2023 MGS published a Trekking website, MGS Life > Co-Curricular > Treks, and over a period of 2 years all my MGS Trekking Archive material has also been uploaded there. This was completed in October 2025 with the publication of the final Trek Log, 1990 Öst Tirol. The site can be viewed here: MGS Life
Old Trekkers’ Treks (OTT) My other website has accounts of the Treks I have organised with friends and family between 2006 (Stubai Alps) and 2019 (Vanoise – Val d’Isere). Our planned Trek in the Dachstein in July 2020 had to be cancelled because of Covid restrictions. This website can be found at: wittontreks..com
The slide show below illustrates just a few of the many highlights over the years. More will be added in due course.
If you have enjoyed reading any of this I would be very pleased to to receive any feedback comments via the Contact Form.
Website first published on 9th January 2021 Latest update: October 2025 with the 1990 Öst Tirol Log uploaded.
SMALL PRINT I would like to record my thanks to my daughter, Anne Witton, for her invaluable help with the design and implementation of this website. The large majority of the images in this website and in the Trek Logs were taken by me, but thanks to others in the various parties for permission to use theirs too: Roger Hand, John Willson, Gerry Leversha and Paul Atkins. All the images used as title images and in the slide shows are taken from the Logs, where their locations are given. It has obviously been impossible to obtain permission from individuals to use images which include them. Anyone who finds this a problem should contact me. The site is best viewed on a computer (rather than a phone) and for reasons of page layout and definition of the low resolution images used, a pane (window) width the same as an A4 sheet is optimum. The location of site navigation menu depends on the pane size; for large size it may be at the top and right hand side, for smaller size it is at the bottom or accessible by clicking on the 3 bar symbol above the title image.
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