Posts by Andrew
At first, I was going to down-vote the question, because "I have heard..." struck me as relying on urban myth. But I realized I didn't have the Rep yet on this site to do so... Then coincidentall...
The first time I went skiing, I found the camaraderie of Absolute Beginners Ski School to be brilliant - and formed the nucleus of a great apres ski. I've also tried the dry ski slope back home, a...
According to this article on Walk Highlands, from December 2011: Hillwalkers and climbers will be able to legally carry Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) from 12 January following a change in U...
In my opinion, there is only one! When asked “Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?” George Mallory replied: Because it's there... Or more fully: Because it's there... Everest is the ...
Notwithstanding Mallory's classic, there is Sir Edmund Hillary's response when it was suggested Mallory may have reached the summit: I’m rather inclined to think, personally, that maybe it’s ...
