Between 10 and 18 February 1980, Roger Mear and I climbed the North Face of the Eiger, a climb every mountaineer wants to have done but...

A writer's round-about journey to the next rung of the ladder.

What if? For fiction writers, the answer can be light or dark. But sometimes it takes reality to deliver the worst scenario.

Prisoners for life, still behind bars twenty-eight years after I took them up Everest.

The risky business of entering book competitions, channelling the recent Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.

A remembrance of the first and last time I climbed with my brother, Charlie.

Go up, or go down? Looking back on a decision made four decades ago.

A story about receiving inspiration, using it, then giving it back.

An opinion piece about the taming of K2.

If we’re lucky, we live long enough to hear our bodies tell us we’re past our best. It doesn’t happen overnight — even if recognition of...