Adventure Stories
Winter on the Tarmachan Ridge
We had been set on a Glen Coe adventure and had been following the Mountain Weather Information Service all week. Its late October and the snow has arrived in the Scottish Highlands. Our first winter mountaineering day of the season.
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Autumn Mountaineering in Glen Coe
Autumn Mountaineering in Glen Coe
Leaving Tyndrum and heading north we are hit by the conical mass of Beinn Dorain; its steep and gouged walls disappearing into the mist telling us Glen Coe isn’t far.
It’s a grey half-light as we approach Rannoch Moor, our car…
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Does a name matter? Only if the planet matters.
The clothing industry is dirty, and less than 1% of clothing is recycled.
The fashion industry has a disastrous impact on the environment. In fact, it is the second largest polluter in the world, just after the oil industry. And the environmental damage is increasing as the industry grows.
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This is my church; this is where I heal my hurts.
This is my church;
this is where I heal my hurts.
There is a threshold. When I step from indoors to outdoors with the intention of spending some time in nature, there is a moment I cross within myself.
I’m not really sure whether I’m…
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Coasteering, Dolphins and The Soul
COASTEERING,
DOLPHINS AND THE SOUL
You, like myself and most people I have mentioned this to, are probably wondering… what on earth is coasteering? And on paper, why on earth would anybody do that?!
Picture this: it’s Sunday afternoon, the fog is hanging, you can’t see…
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Space. The Final Frontier.
“Consider this tiny blue dot” wrote astronomer Carl Sagan “On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of.
Every human being who ever was, lived out their lives, on the mode of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.”
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