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I forgot I was a backpacker

I started walking as a child in the Scouts, and on family holidays to the Yorkshire Dales, but I didn’t really think of myself as a walker until about 2002. I’ve written before about my years walking and backpacking in the Sandlings. In 2003 and 2004 I put

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Book review: Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles by Chris Townsend

Rattlesnakes and Bald Eagles:Hiking the Pacific Crest Trailby Chris Townsend Chris Townsend is one of the world’s leading authorities on backpacking. He’s been doing it for a long time and has written many books on the subject. In fact, his Backpacker’s Handbook was a major source

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Illustrations from after the Alpine golden age

Today I’d like to share some beautiful illustrations with you. One of my most prized books is the Badminton Book of Mountaineering, a massive tome of 19th century climbing lore compiled by C.T. Dent and published in 1892. It features contributions from the greatest climbers of the post-golden

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Introducing No Way Home, a speculative fiction anthology

Today I’d like to talk to you about something a little different. I’ve been working with a group of other writers to produce an anthology of speculative fiction called No Way Home, and it’s going to be launched on the 2nd of March this year. Science fiction

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Book review: The Walk Up Nameless Ridge by Hugh Howey

The Walk Up Nameless Ridge by Hugh Howey The Walk Up Nameless Ridge is a short story by science fiction writer Hugh Howey, best known for the post-apocalyptic series Wool. Mountaineering fiction is an obscure genre at the best of times so it was with some surprise that I learned

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Happy Christmas!

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Kindle editions discounted for Christmas

As a Christmas gift to my readers, the Kindle editions of my two full-length novels, The Only Genuine Jones and The Atholl Expedition, have been reduced in price from £1.99 to 98p. This offer will run for ten days until New Year’s Eve. I’m afraid I don’

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The Atholl Expedition listed in top outdoor literature of 2014

It’s that time again when the outdoor industry looks back at the year past and reflects on the highs and lows. For the first time in my career I have been fortunate enough to feature in this great reckoning, not once but three times. First I was nominated (and

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The camera of the Abraham brothers returns to the Lakeland crags

Readers of my historical novel The Only Genuine Jones will be familiar with the brothers George and Ashley Abraham: climbing photographers from Keswick in the Lake District who teamed up with O.G. Jones to document many of his pioneering first ascents in the late 19th century. In my short

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Christmas paperback stock update

It’s that time of year again! Paperback copies of my novels have been flying off the virtual shelves over the last couple of weeks, and I have received several queries about stock levels, so I thought I’d make an official update. As of this morning, The Atholl Expedition