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The final chapter of my Argentinian adventure. Complete with epilogue and details of summit successes. Click here for the previous part, or click here for my diary on the mountain. After some revitalisation, we had to get some of our money changed into Argentinean Pesos. Contrary to what Adventure Peaks had advised, it was the [...]

Click here to read part 2. Landing in Madrid, I was staggered at how cold it was. Whilst I had been preparing for the fridged temperatures I was likely to encounter on the mountain, it stupidly hadn’t even occurred to me that southern Europe had a winter. I had nursed myself through Gatwick wearing just [...]

I received a lot of positive feedback from the first post about my climb of Aconcagua. However; be this lucky or not, I had always aimed to write more chapters. The initial instalment covered my time on the mountain, but as a committed cynic, the prequel to the climb including the planning, preparation and the [...]

Firstly I’d like apologise for the hiatus over the festive period. The reason for this has little to do with lackluster levels of concentration or the endless pursuit of the shiny bottom in the Roses tin. Unbeknownst to a lot of my online readers, I’ve been away climbing mountains in Argentina, and in an effort [...]

I guess that everyone at some point has had some sort of righteous outpouring of emotive dictation. It might be triggered by a debate on a particularly controversial issue or by an excess of the amber nectar, but either way, on reflection most people eventually regain a hold on reality. Previously, I’ve described my political [...]

Unless you’ve been living in a pit for the last four months, you couldn’t really have avoided the global media coverage surrounding the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the subsequent spillage in the Gulf of Mexico. Apart from bequeathing a level of lubrication rarely seen; in at least the feathered inhabitants of [...]