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

An opinion piece about the taming of K2.

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...

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.

It must say something about my love of bubbles that I remember the champagne served at a London book launch, but not the book being...

The barber who crafts the outside of heads while taking care of the inside.

The 25th anniversary of completing the Seven Summits, and the anniversary of a death that could have been prevented.

At this time of year, I’m often asked how I feel about the Everest circus. If you’re one of those inquisitors I apologise if I seemed...