mountain – Page 11 – John D Burns

LM Bothy -Audio Cast

Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy [...]

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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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My latest audio podcast. a virtual walk into Kinbreack Bothy http://johndburns.podomatic.com/player/web/2013-03-02T01_06_49-08_00 [...]

A challenge was laid down and, as ever, I couldn’t resist it. Here is a little 15 min audio version of my blog [...]

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 [...]

I posted this on the UKClimbing website and thought you might enjoy it Mountain climbing is such fun I think I’ll do it [...]

It finally happened, after over thirty years on the hills, an enforced bivi! I think I’m pushing back the frontiers of incompetence now. [...]

I took my primus stove for a walk last Sunday, the weather forecast having dramatically changed for the worse and ruling out the [...]

I’ve been reading a lot about the earliest attempts on Everest and particularly about George Mallory. I think it would make a great [...]

Last weekend I was alone in the Scottish mountains. At one point I was high on a narrow ridge of windblown snow with [...]