The unexpected consequences of giving without expectation.
A writer's round-about journey to the next rung of the ladder.
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Mountains & Metaphors
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.
The life cycle of inspiration
A story about receiving inspiration, using it, then giving it back.
The Crowding of K2 - an opinion.
An opinion piece about the taming of K2.
The mid-life switch.
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...
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