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Mysteries of our personalities
Boardman-Tasker part 2: Pete Boardman
Sep 4
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Ronald Turnbull
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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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Ladies in the Alps
Climbing mountains in the 1820s: an obviously masculine activity? Well, maybe not… [1600 words 7min
Aug 7
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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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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…
Apr 3
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Ronald Turnbull
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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
Mar 27
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Ronald Turnbull
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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
Mar 20
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Ronald Turnbull
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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…
Feb 7
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Ronald Turnbull
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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
Jan 31
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Ronald Turnbull
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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…
Dec 20, 2023
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Ronald Turnbull
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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…
Dec 6, 2023
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Ronald Turnbull
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