Breaking the Ice on the 2014 Everest Icefall Avalanche
A visit to one of the sixteen Sherpa families who, ten years ago this month, were devastated by a deadly Everest avalanche.
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Mountains & Metaphors
The Limit of My Courage
A salute to my friend Keith Mills who 42 years ago today did something I doubt I could have done.
Eiger North Face 1980
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...
The unexpected consequences of giving without expectation.
A writer's round-about journey to the next rung of the ladder.
The Life of an Heirloom
About 150 years ago an English oak tree was felled and its timber taken to Yorkshire where a craftsman turned its rough-sawn planks into...
What if?
What if? For fiction writers, the answer can be light or dark. But sometimes it takes reality to deliver the worst scenario.
Christmas behind bars
Prisoners for life, still behind bars twenty-eight years after I took them up Everest.
The Blizzard of the Boardman Tasker
The risky business of entering book competitions, channelling the recent Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
Brothers of the Rope
A remembrance of the first and last time I climbed with my brother, Charlie.
A reflection on risk.
Go up, or go down? Looking back on a decision made four decades ago.
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