hiking
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Greenland – Final countdown and preparations
March-April 2022 With all the fitness training over the past few months, time really did seem to fly by to the end of April when we eventually started the journey across the…
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Out of the Lairig Ghru
It was sad saying goodbye to The Angel’s Ridge, and it didn’t take too much time to pass by The Devil’s Point and leave the southern jaws of the Lairig Ghru behind.…
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The path down…
Just a quick note about the path down from the Angel’s Ridge to the Corrour Bothy. Very steep – definitely glad that I was walking in decent conditions; if it had been…
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Highland weather
One of the very many reasons why extreme altitude mountaineers love the Highlands–aside from the spectacularly beautiful landscape, which goes without saying–is the way the conditions can change so quickly. One moment…
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To Braeriach
One of the more productive things that I managed to do when I was stuck in the isolation of the lockdown in New Delhi was actually, over the period of five months,…
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Up to the Highlands…
I flew back to the UK from New Delhi at the beginning of September 2020, and after months of being stuck inside, it was nice to be able to get back to…