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.

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

Steve Bell reflects on a 300ft fall in the French Alps forty-five years ago. The fall gave him plenty of time to think.

God's waiting room is not a place, it's an attitude of mind.

A story of loss, karma, and the whisper of superstition.