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A Tour around Piz Bernina
A self-created hut to hut trip through Switzerland and Italy
Jun 10
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Ronald Turnbull
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The World as Turnip
Happy 300th birthday to James Hutton, Scotland’s genius geologist. [1500 words, 6 mins
Jun 3
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Lakeland vs Yorkshire Dales
Which of the two is more excellent? 1400 words 5 mins
May 27
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The Gentle Art of Getting Lost
If a hill’s worth going up, then it’s worth getting lost on… [1500 words 6 mins
May 20
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Chamber of Clouds
Ben Nevis, the only mountain ever to have earned a Nobel Prize. [1800 words 7 mins
May 13
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The mistakes of others
Aug 20, 2025
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The Seven Deadly Sports
Jul 10, 2024
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A short history of dying on the Eiger
Jan 31, 2024
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Rannoch Moor: the unsettling space right in the middle of Scotland
Apr 15
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Lake District : happy 75th!
A birthday card traditionally has a picture on the front and an emotive little poem on the inside. So here’s a greeting to England’s best loved hill…
May 6
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Photographic Developments
Taking pictures in the hills: impossible, of course, in the days of heavy glass-plate cameras. Except it wasn’t…
Apr 29
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Great Hell’s Gate and stairways to Heaven
Exploring the Infinite on the screes of Great Gable (899m) in the English Lake District [1100 words, 5 mins
Apr 22
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Ronald Turnbull
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Rannoch Moor: the unsettling space right in the middle of Scotland
"Liminal" spaces: the in-between, the nowhere, you didn’t ought to be here in the first place. Except, how else are you going to get to Fort William…
Apr 15
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How pinky-brown was my valley
“Home is where one starts from,” says TS Eliot. Home in my case being the Permian-age New Red Sandstone of the valleys of southwest Scotland. [1800…
Apr 8
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No it isn’t Scafell Pike!
For almost 90 years, surveyors have been concealing the true high-point of England “for safety reasons”. [1200 words 5 mins
Apr 1
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Ronald Turnbull
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A Kingly Coast
The King Charles Coast Path, which opened last Thursday, goes around the entire edge of Wales and England. [pictures and 1800 words, 7 mins
Mar 25
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