The Great Outdoors – August 2019
[previous spread] Never mind the sodding river! Dropping down Red Pike towards Ennerdale[above] The hummocky upper reaches of En ...
the cloud, Mark appears. “See,” he says, raising his upturned palms towards the sky. “I told you so.” “It’s a coincidence,” I sh ...
WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO The author explains the soggy thinking behind his convoluted route Musing over the ‘river as true path ...
the start of the walk! After no more than 15 minutes, the absurdity of our task overwhelms us, and we simply take route one to t ...
We yomp up the steps on the lower part of the climb, passing two Asian girls who warn us that their male friend is behind them a ...
A TEST OF METTEL by Alex Roddie IN A YEAR WHEN SWISS GLACIERS LOST 3%OF THEIR TOTAL VOLUME, ALEX RODDIE RETURNS TO AN ALPINE PEA ...
I COULD HARDLY STOP SHIVERING. The wind howled and another plume of spindrift blasted through the entrance of our snow cave, coa ...
December storm, drybrushed with icing sugar. We began the final ascent. The glacier was short, flat and easy, with no crevasses ...
Map: David Langworth gear, and clothing more suited to a Scottish winter than an Alpine summer jaunt – wisely for the conditions ...
little glacier at the top ofthe cirque does Mettelhorn’s final pyramid reveal itself. In 2007, Platthorn had been a snowy peak, ...
GLACIAL RETREAT IN THE ALPS In 2017, many of Switzerland’s glaciers were free of snow by July, meaning that the bare ice was ex ...
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