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Bearing Up : A cool line in the Cuillins
Author Paul Taylor has a point.An odyssey (noun) - A long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience.The fairy world is inhabited by many different types of fairies. Like the humans themselves...
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The Finger of God
Photo- Carlos Perez Couto (CCL)THERE ARE A FEW great cities in the world that live with mountains and quite a number of these lie in South America—C a r a ca s, Quito, Lima, Santiago, and Rio de...
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Jim Birkett
Jim Birkett belaying above Gimmer Crag, Langdale in the English Lakes District. Image-Bill Birkett collectionIt was in the Golden Rule, Cumbria's popular climbing pub, that two years ago and...
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Olympic Dreams
It's climbing but not as we know it! Photo- Eddie Fowkes.‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’To represent a country at the Olympics is the ultimate dream of a games player and a participant in the athletic...
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Sir Leslie Stephen: Spirit Of The Age
Father and Daughter : Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf.‘Fleetest of foot of the whole Alpine brotherhood’ Edward WhymperThis country is almost unique in the number of climbing clubs that exist...
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A Feeling For Rock...Reviewed
Sarah-Jane Dobner's ,A Feeling for Rock, is in many ways, a tricky little book to review. It's not a Bio/Autobiography, technical guide, travelogue or philosophical treatise on the subject of climbing...
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Paul Pritchard's The Mountain Path....Reviewed
The Mountain Path: Paul Pritchard. Vertebrate Publishing £24.192 pages hard back, case bound with 8 page art paper colour section. ‘Live it up, fill your cup and be merry, sow your wild...
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Carnage
John Redhead:'There but for the grace of God go I'.Forty two years down the line the ‘art of knee maintenance’ fell upon me. From a youth playing football, and at home on the couch haphazardly...
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The Waiting Game
Idle thoughts from a tent in the KhumbuSome years ago I was sitting in my tent high in the Khumbu Valley, snowflakes swirling through the bitterly cold air then noisily slithering down the flysheet;...
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Give us this day
I woke up the other morning and found my teeth chattering. I wasn’t cold, far from it, still warmly embraced in half-sleep. Mornings are not my thing and it can take a morning to realise I am not...
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People Watching
In the world of travel, people watching is one thing we all invariably do, even if it’s a subconscious activity. This is particularly true when moving from one airport or railway station to another...
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Redemption on Creagh Death
Hermless, hermless,There’s never nae bother frae me.Naeb’dy would notice if I wasnae there,And I didnae come hame for ma tea.Hermless by Michael Marra If you are prone to frustration getting the better...
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A’Chreag Dhearg. Climbing Stories of the Angus Glens: Reviewed
Simon Stewart climbing in Glen Clova;Image-Simon Stewart A’Chreag Dhearg. Climbing Stories of the Angus Glens. Compiled by Grant Farquhar.376 pages, paperback, drawn on cover, perfect bound. Scottish...
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