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New author interview on the blog of John Burns

Alex Roddie
Alex Roddie

John D Burns, mountaineer, writer and playwright with a particular interest in Aleister Crowley, has interviewed me on his blog. You can read it here. In the interview I talk about how I first became interested in Victorian mountaineering, my discovery of O.G.Jones, and some of the unique challenges faced by mountaineers in the “Golden Age” of British climbing.

I recently interviewed John on this blog. You can read the article here.

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Alex Roddie

Happiest on a mountain. Writer, story-wrangler, digital and film photographer. Editor of Sidetracked magazine (I make the words come out good).

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