The unexpected consequences of giving without expectation.A writer's round-about journey to the next rung of the ladder.
The Life of an HeirloomAbout 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 barsPrisoners for life, still behind bars twenty-eight years after I took them up Everest.
The Blizzard of the Boardman TaskerThe risky business of entering book competitions, channelling the recent Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
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...