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I’ve just got back from celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the successful Norwegian Everest Expedition of which I was a member and reached the summit. It was held at the family home of Haavard Nesheim in the far North of Norway on the Lyngen Peninsular.
I arrived a couple of days early and got a climb [...]
It’s been a fun busy week. It started last Saturday when I went climbing with the Lancaster University Climbing Club. We had a fun easy day on Corvus, on Raven Crag, Borrowdale swinging leads then a great meal in the Thai Restaurant in Keswick that night.
On the Sunday I met the Lancaster University walking club for a [...]
With Malcolm and Andrew Grant at base camp. It meant a great deal to both of them. Sadly Dick died of cancer before Andrew was born and Andrew felt that this trek brought him much closer to the Grand Dad he never knew.
Dick Grant on the left and Corporal Ang Nyma of the Ghurkas in [...]
I’ve just got back from a brilliant trek with my son Joe to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of my first ascent of Annapurna II following part of the route we used in 1960. Joe has just started a Commercial trekking company based in Sydney, where he works as a personal trainer. I went along as [...]
After a week at Tafroute, we moved to the Kazbah, on the North Side. It is a delightful little hotel inside the fortified village and has been beautifully and simply restored – no en suite bathrooms but it is comfortable and our hosts Jamal and Malika, a young couple who have spent five [...]
I’m on my favourite holiday of the year with a bunch of old friends at Tafroute in the Anti Atlas of Morocco. You fly into Agadir and it’s about a three hour drive south to Tafroute, which is in the centre of some of the best adventure climbing I have ever done – mile [...]
Join Chris and writer/adventurer Ben Fogle on as they share a personal insight into their favourite adventure. In conversation with Libby Purves they reflect on how their early experiences in the British countryside generated a spirit of exploration that has seen them succeed in the most challenging places on earth. Chris will appear at the event on [...]
