OK, having hopefully got your attention by the corny title to this blog, I will continue in the same vein and exploit punning to the manximum. The Isle of Man is a place that I have wanted to visit for a while. It is a place where TT doesn’t mean being abstemious, but rather throbbing Continue Reading
Alan Arnette interview with Dave Roskelley on the Volcanic Seven Summits
Dave Roskelley is a Utahn, originally from Chicago. He completed the Volcanic Seven Summits in January 2020 on Mount Sidley in Antarctica. Whilst on his trip, he and another team member were kind enough to send me photos from Mount Sidley itself. We also had a brief chat when he was at the Sidley Continue Reading
Pico Ruivo – Ultra bagging in Madeira
This is a blog about a hastily arranged trip last November. A mini adventure snatched as the UK was entering its second Covid-19 lockdown. With mountaineering being somewhat constrained, at least for me, during 2020 I was keen to do at least something. What with travel corridors Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits: Defining the Continents
I was inspired to write this blog by an essay written by the late Adam Helman (here). A comment made in my blog on Australia's highest volcano (here) also gave me a push. Adam Helman's essay discussed the fact that it is quite possible to define the Seven Summits differently from the traditional Continue Reading
Entering the Marilyn Hall of Fame
Two years ago, back in October 2018 I wrote a blog about completing the English Marilyns. You can find it here. By way of reminder, Marilyns are hills and mountains in the British Isles that have a prominence of at least 150m. There are 1557 of them in Britain of which 175 are in Continue Reading