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On the Road : Josh Sutton's Guyrope Gourmet.......review
Obligatory cheesy photograph of the authorFirst off..the title of Josh Sutton’s first book ‘Guyrope Gourmet’ is slightly misleading if you include all elements of canvas dwelling. No problem if you're...
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Welsh Interlude
So, from time to time, I could escape from the war to the hills, and early in the winter of 1943 there were a few glorious days spent at Ty Gwyn farm in the Nant Ffrancon Valley with Charles Marriott...
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Envoi
EIGHT years ago, fresh air was still the property of moneyed men, a luxury open to the few. With a hundred faces and places fresh in my mind, I find this fact difficult to believe, yet it is true....
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One Man's Way
Once every week for two years and on every day of every holiday a quiet,middle aged Kendal man has been out and about on the eastern fells of the Lake District – almost always alone – exploring,...
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Everest-The First Ascent...review
With the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest just a few months behind us, it’s a pleasureto have come across one of the most revealing and well researched books that I have yet read on that...
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Trikes on the roof of the world: Tibet Story
Honeymoon in TibetFumbling with the tent fly I escape into a freezing, cavernous, deep space night. My eyes wander up and I contemplate the constellations of the northern hemisphere.Then I track down...
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Mont Blanc-The Finest Routes.....review
There are two much-thumbed ‘bibles’ in my house: Ken Wilson’s ever-inspiring Classic Rock; and the nearest thing to pornography I’ve ever put on proud display in my living room: The Mont Blanc Massif:...
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Angel Pavement
Terry Gifford on pitch two.Original image-Ian Smith/CCThe place possesses a distinct allure: nowhere in Wales could a more confused and romantically sculptured disarray of rock be found; loose it may...
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50 years after 'Silent Spring'
Silent Spring has come to be regarded as an environmental classic which instigated the modern environmental movement. The book’s warning about the dangers of pesticides touched a nerve, but also...
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Anniversaries: Sea Stacks and new routes on the Point of Stoer
Paul on the first ascent of Haramosh: For our wedding anniversaries I try to give my wife, who doesn't climb much, a present of a memorable adventure. I thought The Old Man of Stoer in the North West...
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Engineers Eliminate:the nuts and bolts of a first ascent
Martin sets off on the first pitch. The plain facts are these; On Saturday 13th July 2013 Al Hughes and I arrived at Cwm Silyn with the sole intention of an ascent on Craig Fawr. Our objective a one...
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XS – The essence of trad : A plea and an introduction to The Range.
I wrote a short piece recently for ‘Footless Crow’ about my new multimedia project in Catalunya Nord, named ‘Perillos, here be dragons’ It is said that the village of Perillos, near Perpinya, became...
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Galligan's Travels: Climbing Ramabang...review
Approaching unclimbed KonchokI wasn’t familiar with Gerry Galligan before I’d read this book but I gather the author is a well respected member of the Irish mountaineering community. A community which...
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Army Dreamer....... A Portrait of Tony Streather
Dead Man walking: Jillott and Amery before the fateful avalanche on Haramosh. For those who are interested in compiling it, the list of postwar British mountaineers who have achieved major success in...
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He who fell to earth ........A Climber's tale
In a time long ago, during the reign of Thatcher- the she-man- there lived a tribe of men whose sole purpose was to climb rocks. In this time, known in legend as The Golden Age, a being of such...
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Perillos-Here be Dragons
John Redhead wired for sound in Corbieres'limestone country. And there, be Fembots.So. I ended Colonists Out by ‘emptying’ all that nonsense of material dwellings and allowed the Big Soul to enter. I...
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The undiscovered country
Brief as the lighting in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things...
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Perfectly Mobile-Perfectly Still
Land Artists-Andy Goldsworthy,David Kemp and David Nash. SCULPTURE need not be a bronze statue of a town councillor or a marble figure of a goddess, respectfully plinthed in gallery or plaza; or a...
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Freedom Road: Ken Ilgunas' Walden on Wheels..... review
Photo Ken Ilgunas Collection Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of themEdward...
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Northern Expressions
You know how quickly a route can assert itself upon your tied-on, racked-up and ready-to-climb enthusiasm: it grabs you when you think you're grabbing it. '6m right of a rowan', and the starting jugs...
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