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Jamie Dodd of the Muir
A story of the Southern Uplands [1600 words 7 mins
Dec 4
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Ronald Turnbull
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Stories about Walking
Fictional treatments of long-distance travel on foot: Harold Fry and 'You Are Here' [1400 words 6 mins
Nov 27
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Ronald Turnbull
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Great Aletsch Glacier
The odd thing about a glacier is its ugliness [1300 words, 7 mins
Nov 20
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Ronald Turnbull
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WH Auden 'In Praise of Limestone'
His great poem about the North Pennines, plus a bit of Italy [1300 words 8 mins
Nov 13
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Ronald Turnbull
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Lovable limestone
and a moment of déja view in the Yorkshire Dales [1200 words 5 mins
Nov 6
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Ronald Turnbull
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Did Mallory make it?
Mar 20
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Ronald Turnbull
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From the Alps to Bloomsbury
Mar 27
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Ronald Turnbull
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Virginia Woolf meets the Matterhorn
Jun 12
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Ronald Turnbull
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Egdon Heath – a fictitious moorland in Dorset
It takes a hardy soul to cross the bleak moorland – a Thomas Hardy soul… [1500 words 7 min
Oct 30
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Ronald Turnbull
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Into the Woods
Just how pleasing are trees? From Sir Gawain to Stephen Sondheim [1300 words
Oct 23
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Ronald Turnbull
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Alexander von Humboldt climbs on Chimborazo
Me, a mountaineer? I'm only here for the barometric readings...
Oct 16
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Ronald Turnbull
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Leadership contest AD1306: Badenoch brutally eliminated...
Hillwalking meets high politics in southwest Scotland [1500 words 7 mins
Oct 9
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Ronald Turnbull
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Getting passionate about volcanic ash [1100 words 5 mins
Oct 2
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Ronald Turnbull
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Poison Wall
The Stinger. Climbing its Poison Wall is going to change his life. [Short story 1000 words 5 mins
Sep 25
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Ronald Turnbull
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A study in Skiddaw
Skiddaw, England’s 4th-highest hill, is about to become its highest nature reserve. [1500 words 6 mins
Sep 18
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Ronald Turnbull
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