Category Archives: Napes Needle

Days Like This, No 20: Glimpses on Gable

Posted on May 15, 2015 by

EARLY morning on the South Traverse. The southern crags of Great Gable soak up sunlight. Rocks are warm to the touch beneath their volcanic tuff roughness and crumbly lichen. In the air, the bleat of a distant ewe and the … 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 →

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