photography – Page 6 – John D Burns

Exploding Ice

February 24, 2013johndburns 14

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 [...]

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’m late, an hour late arriving on the ridge that overlooks Bearnais bothy. An hour shouldn’t matter much, but this hour does because [...]

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 wasn’t going to tell you about this but, after giving the matter some thought, I decided that, in the interests of [...]

Every now and again life just goes pear shaped. It happens on a fairly regular basis for me and I’ve no reason to [...]

I’ve been a good boy this weekend. I made some wholemeal bread on Saturday, went walking in Glen Affric on Sunday and, if [...]

That winter’s evening the back bar of the King’s House was packed to the roof with a menagerie of outdoor folk. Keeping [...]

I can’t take it anymore. This is my last blog. I will never write another. After this blog I am going to take [...]