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Scratching the surface
Striae and slickensides, marks made by glaciers and marks made by great movements of the Earth [1200 words 5 mins
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Aleister Crowley, magus and mountaineer
A brief round-up on the most evil man to ever climb Kanchenjunga [1300 words, 6 mins
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The Cloud of Unknowing
Gerald Macdonaldson, youth group leader, finds his own mapreading leads him into confusion. [fiction: 1300 words, 5 min
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Suffering and fun
We should minimise our own future pain. But, as mountaineers and long distance walkers, we don't. Behavioral psychology could have some answers here…
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William Shakespeare, mountain man
Birnam Wood, a cave in the Brecon Beacons, and a long walk to Milford Haven: from the man who invented mountaineers [1000 words, 4 min
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From the Alps to Bloomsbury
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Did Mallory make it?
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Tors for thought
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Knee Breeches: why aren’t we all wearing them?
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John Muir's 1000-mile walk to Florida
John Muir walks across the eastern USA in 1867 [1800 words 8 mins
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Meru (2015) – is this the best mountain movie so far?
Meru, the near-mythic mountain in the Garhwal Himalaya, offers 1400m of steep ice and overhanging granite. But in the film, it’s the human beings that…
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From the Alps to Bloomsbury
George Mallory, Everest climber, lives on in a novel by EM Forster. [1700 words, 8 mins
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Did Mallory make it?
Did George Mallory and Sandy Irvine reach Everest's summit on 8 June 1924? Here's all of what we know. [2400 words: 10 mins
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Mind has Mountains
Gerard Manley Hopkins could have been the greatest outdoor writer of the Victorian age. But, for religious reasons, wasn’t. [1300 words 6 mins
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Knee Breeches: why aren’t we all wearing them?
The fall and fall of this practical and attractive form of legwear [750 words, 3 min
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Tors for thought
Grim granite lanscapes – Dartmoor, the Cairngorms – have the silliest of decorative ornament up on top: the granite tors. [1300 words, 5 mins
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walking across them, climbing up them, writing about them
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