The most serious walk in Britain?
I realise I must have lapsed into unconsciousness as the icy downwash from the rescue helicopter, hovering above, brings me round. Peering through
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highlands
How to get cheaper gear – Legally
It’s not that I don’t trust technology it’s just that most of the time I don’t understand it. It’s the pace of change
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I think I’m Turning Black and White
I was out today in the frozen Cairngorms today and took some photos in black and white and in colour. I’m beginning to enjoy the
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The demise of the mountain bothy
There is something special in the stillness of a winter’s night, when frost renders the burns silent and dusts the grass with transient
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Hey dude, pimp my bothy!
Looking down through the ice that masks the surface of the river Kingie I marvel at the clarity of the water. I can
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Exploding Ice
I’m afraid there’s no way round it. I’m going to have to tell you, and you, dear reader, are just going to have
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Flesh and Fire
A challenge was laid down and, as ever, I couldn’t resist it. Here is a little 15 min audio version of my blog
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Of Lochs and Snow
There is one activity us mountaineers don’t talk about much. It gives us such joy that we’re afraid that if we let the
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A night in Two Hat Bothy
I’m late, an hour late arriving on the ridge that overlooks Bearnais bothy. An hour shouldn’t matter much, but this hour does because
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Protest about Cairns
I posted this on the UKClimbing website and thought you might enjoy it Mountain climbing is such fun I think I’ll do it
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