The world’s most terrifying ridge walk

May 23, 2012 Expedition dispatches altitude junkies, chongba sherpa, climbing fatalities, everest, exhaustion, ian cartwright, margaret watroba, mark dickson, scrambling, summit day, tibet 21 Comments

The world’s most terrifying ridge walk

This is a short post briefly describing our successful ascent of Everest by the North Ridge on Saturday 19 May. I’ll describe it in more depth in a later post, once I’ve recovered from summit exhaustion and had more time

Backpacker’s Britain: walking guides for people who like it tough

June 21, 2011 Reviews and tributes abergwesyn hills, backpacking, book reviews, britain, cicerone guides, dehydration, exhaustion, glen shiel, graham uney, hill walking, hypothermia, knoydart, off piste walking, rhinogs, scotland, skiddaw, wales, walking guides, wild camping 0 Comment

Backpacker’s Britain: walking guides for people who like it tough

I’d like to pay tribute to a man called Graham Uney. I’ve never met him and I probably never will, but thanks to his Backpacker’s Britain walking guides I’ve had many an enjoyable weekend in the UK’s hills, in places