Hints and tips:
...In a column, the FT’s Henry Mance mocks, but also defends, athletes demanding to be treated differently....
...“Right now, I’ve no interest in strapping on a sledge harness again, [but] I said the same thing in 2014.”...
...Karen Kilimnik’s “Swan Lake”, a stage-set of gauze curtains, sledge, plastic snowflakes, is a twee store-window outfit that would fail to turn a head in the high street....
...Shoppers on both sides of the Channel are preparing for the worst that winter can throw at them with sales of rock salt and sledges both rocketing....
...Scott starved and froze to death beside his friends, Henry Bowers and Edward Wilson, and a controversial legend was born....
...A few years ago the journalist Tim Butcher attempted to retrace Henry Morton Stanley’s 1877 trip down the Congo River. He made a brave try but he failed....
...And I’m immersed of late in the 1940s and the second world war, so I’ll be reading Eugene Sledge’s classic With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa and Daniel Swift’s forthcoming Bomber County ....
...Fiennes had attempted the same journey in 2000 when he suffered frostbite to one hand in rescuing his sinking sledge....
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