A visit to one of the sixteen Sherpa families who, ten years ago this month, were devastated by a deadly Everest avalanche.

A salute to my friend Keith Mills who 42 years ago today did something I doubt I could have done.

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.

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? 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.