I should be in the mountains. Right now, as I write this, I should be in a Spanish spring meadow, looking up to great peaks and down a sweeping green valley. But instead, there’s the metal gates to a locked up college out one window, an empty trai...
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As many of you may know, I haven’t spent such a long, uninterrupted spell at home for as long as I can remember. Since I was a teenager my life has been dedicated to travel and the outdoors, not time inside four walls. I suppose I did have a bit o...
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In these times of walls and isolation, our past travels can be a source of positivity, connection, humour and a bit of pride too. Just imagine how many incredible stories and photos you've got wrapped up in your memories and albums. Stories and ph...
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In the spirit of good health and wellbeing in times of lockdown, I wanted share a rather lovely Saxon poem which speaks to the beautiful permanence of nature across a divide of a thousand years or more. Thankfully I have a rather characterful uncl...
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Cerro Torre has had a special place in my imagination since the 1970s, when student holidays were dedicated to my brief and unspectacular climbing career. All the climbing magazines were filled with tales of the spectacularly inaccessible and inh...
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#ShoeboxOfMemories With all of us spending a bit more time indoors at the moment, it struck us an opportune moment to ask to see some of the mementos, oddities and random objects you've collected over time which tell many a story from your travel...
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