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Adventures in the Alpine Style
Boardman and Tasker Part 1: Joe Tasker [1400 words, 6 mins
Aug 28
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Ronald Turnbull
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The Seven Deadly Sports
Mountaineering is a sport, but most of the rest are merely games. So says Ernest Hemingway. [1400 words 6 min
Jul 10
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Ronald Turnbull
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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…
Apr 24
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Ronald Turnbull
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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
Mar 6
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Ronald Turnbull
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The 18th Century Art of Landscape Appreciation
The strange craze for looking at England in a distorting mirror, backwards. [1400 words: 6 mins
Dec 27, 2023
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Ronald Turnbull
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