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What I’ve been reading this week, 13 February 2021

A month of snow, a dark miracle, hard knocks on Ben Nevis, and the business of writing.

What I’ve been reading this week, 13 February 2021
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Review: Thrunotes waterproof hiking notebooks

A collection of waterproof, pocket-sized notebooks for recording your outdoor adventures.

Review: Thrunotes waterproof hiking notebooks
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What I’ve been reading this week, 31 January 2021

Kit help and hindrance, time travel, the style debate on K2, and where book publishing is heading in 2021.

What I’ve been reading this week, 31 January 2021
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What I’ve been reading this week, 17 January 2020

The wings of change, a contested landscape, hot tenting, and a history of women walking.

What I’ve been reading this week, 17 January 2020
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What I’ve been reading this week, 9 January 2020

Snowshoes in Scotland, the Olivetti Lettera 22 at seventy, the aesthetics of editing, and outdoor books to get lost in.

What I’ve been reading this week, 9 January 2020
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Nature Notes: my last walk of 2020 through Gunby Park

Wildlife, sunshine, frost, mist, and favourite local views If 2020 has been the year of keeping it local, then my New Year’s Eve walk has reinforced that theme. I have walked through the Gunby parkland hundreds of times over the last few years and at least 200 times this

Nature Notes: my last walk of 2020 through Gunby Park
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My top images of 2020

Connections, light, and learning: a look at the best of my wildlife and landscape photography this year. In the past I’ve sometimes selected five top images from the year. It’s a useful exercise, but this year I’ve failed to narrow it down anywhere near as tightly. I

My top images of 2020
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2020 in review: surviving shocks, new projects, and yearning for the heights

How I’ve navigated through 2020 as a professional outdoor writer, editor and photographer. About five minutes ago, it seems, I published my overview of 2019. Last year was my most successful to date in what still feels like a relatively new career, and I had high hopes for 2020.

2020 in review: surviving shocks, new projects, and yearning for the heights
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‘The silence roared in our ears’: a selection of quotes from Hell of a Journey by Mike Cawthorne

I’ve recently finished reading Hell of a Journey: On Foot through the Scottish Highlands in Winter by Mike Cawthorne. This is a modern classic of mountain literature and the account of a landmark mountain journey in the late 1990s: the first continuous trip on foot over all 135 of

‘The silence roared in our ears’: a selection of quotes from Hell of a Journey by Mike Cawthorne
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Outdoor publishing, Europe’s best hiking, the camera I use in the hills, and more: in conversation on YouTube with the Outdoors Station

This week, it was my pleasure to chat with Bob Cartwright at the Outdoors Station live on YouTube. Here’s how it went. As I wrote in my blog post introducing the show, I don’t make many public appearances. It has been over a year since my last talk

Outdoor publishing, Europe’s best hiking, the camera I use in the hills, and more: in conversation on YouTube with the Outdoors Station

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