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Mountaineering

Great Aletsch Glacier
The odd thing about a glacier is its ugliness [1300 words, 7 mins
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Mysteries of our personalities
Boardman-Tasker part 2: Pete Boardman
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Adventures in the Alpine Style
Boardman and Tasker Part 1: Joe Tasker [1400 words, 6 mins
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Ladies in the Alps
Climbing mountains in the 1820s: an obviously masculine activity? Well, maybe not… [1600 words 7min
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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
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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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Dying on the Eiger – Part 2: the Mittellegi Ridge
The Eiger North Face: who would want to climb that lethal thing? Meanwhile me and David are doing the Mittellegi, the ridge that runs along the top edge…
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A short history of dying on the Eiger
Heading up the railway towards the Eiger’s Mittellegi Ridge, while looking down its dreaded North Face. [3600 words, 15min
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Annapurna 1950 vs Everest 1953
It’s not fair to compare the small-scale French expedition to Annapurna with the large, well organised British and Commonwealth one three years later…
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Three Peaks of mountain writing
Mountaineering throws up fundamental questions about friendship and obsession, about sport and ethics, about life and death. It also throws up some fine…
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