Stories

Alpenglow inspirations: iPhone photography in the Alps

Making the best of a flawed – but valid – photographic tool

Jul 29 •

Experiments in deconvergence: it starts with a wristwatch and notepad

Simple first steps towards radically changing your life. Less time looking down, more time looking up.

Jul 4 •

Experiments in deconvergence: Is the cyborg mountaineer still an artist?

More than a century ago, George Mallory wrote that adventure qualifies as art. Is that still true today?

Jun 19 •

Closer to the true heart of things

At a remote bothy deep in the Scottish Highlands, I meet a remarkable character on a lifelong quest – perhaps someone everyone in the world of adventure…

Jun 3 •

Freezeframe – one last journey into the Cairngorms before the world changed

Five years ago, with the first Covid lockdown imminent and a perfect forecast, I decided to seize the opportunity to complete a long-dreamed-of…

Apr 1 •

Looking for a rural sense of place in dead week

What makes a place a place, what happens when we lose it, and can we get it back?

Dec 31, 2024 •

Something in the darkness to believe in

A moment that exists outside of time, a crucible of community in the mountains, and new human perspectives on moral dilemmas

Nov 29, 2024 •

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