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February 2025

The Haunting of Climb B
Short story from my new ebook [very short, 1000 words 4 mins
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Charles Dickens climbs Carrock Fell
Carrock being a 2174ft high hill in the Lake District. Meanwhile Wilkie Collins is doing all he can to keep up ... [1200 words 5 mins
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Afterworlds
My new ebook of eschatological* short stories is now up on Amazon Kindle (*eschatology: the academic study of the afterlife)
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Mountains in Manga
Mountain climbing. What’s it all about, why do we do it, and is a big peak really worth more than life itself? The best answers so far come from Japan…
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January 2025

Bolt-on emotion: Romanticism part 2
English Romanticism trickles through into mountain writing of today [1300 words 6 mins
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English Romanticism: Is it really all over?
The answer is no it isn’t, so long as people keep climbing up Helvellyn – ideally in the dark [1800 words 7 mins
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Leslie Stephen climbs Mont Blanc
Leslie Stephen was knighted for his services as a Victorian man of letters, in particular as the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
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The Tertiary Volcanic Province
where else in the UK would you go for your hilly holidays? [1400 words 6 mins
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Jane Austen Walks
What are men to rocks and mountains? The importance of the Outdoors in the 1810s. [1500 words 7 mins
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December 2024

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