Category Archives: Camping

A Final Voyage

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

YOU can see Scafell Pike – the highest mountain in England – from the forecourt garden of the terraced house in which I spent my early childhood. From the back garden of the bungalow the family moved to when I … Continue reading →

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From Gable’s South Traverse to the Breaker’s Yard

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

IT’S 7.45am on Friday morning and I’m standing on the flight deck of HMS Invincible, watching the sun rise over a scarlet Morecambe Bay. I shouldn’t be up here; I should be down in the aircraft carrier’s aft engine room … Continue reading →

Posted in Camping, Climbing, Hiking, HMS Invincible, Mountains, Napes Needle, Walking, Willie Horne | Tagged , , | 16 Comments

Madeira: Stairways to Heaven

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

McEff discovers the mountains of Madeira. It’s more than a piece of cake . . . Continue reading →

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Voyage of a Dawn Treader (Buachaille Etive Beag)

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

THERE is something hauntingly primeval in watching the sun rise through a cold mist. And somehow a lonesome lorry roaring over the pass of Glencoe adds to the starkness . . .

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The Quest for Breakfast Above Loch Lochy

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

ON the crest of a wet and desolate Cam Bealach, as rain streams in from the north, a desperate man wanders through the mire . . . Continue reading →

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