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What’s with these waterfalls?
For well over 1000 years, we’ve been chasing around after falling water. So what’s so special about noise, frothy whiteness, and getting wet with the…
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Celebrating the Cairngorms
Preparing the final reprint for my 2008 Cairngorms guidebook [800 words 4 min
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Annapurna 1950 vs Everest 1953
This week sees the 75th anniversary of the French ascent of Annapurna. But we're British (well, I am)... [1000 words: 5 min
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Sophia Delaval: 18th-century outdoor type
Aristocrat, influencer, and serious landscape appreciator [1300 words, 6 mins
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May 2025

A bothy in the Bernina
Build in your imagination the ideal of bothy. A long walk to get to it; a huge view; and even some dry blankets to sleep under. And then head off and…
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The Psychopathology of Peakbagging
Sigmund Freud’s insights on the Outdoors [1700 words; 8 mins
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Incident in the Devil's Kitchen
A Cambridge man goes for a ramble around Cwm Idwal [1600 words, 8 mins
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Juniper
Lakeland's typical tree
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April 2025

Theological bogs
The one landscape feature that embodies absolute evil… [1400 words 6 min
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My Dad climbed with Dougal Haston
He survived. Dougal, in the end, didn’t.
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A Chaucer Walk
Five days from London to Canterbury following English literature's first ever long-distance trail
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Lily Briscoe, who isn't Alpine climber Lily Bristow
Is Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ a book about mountains? Well yes, sort of ….
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