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...With this latest accolade, 54-year-old Ramsden became the most decorated mountaineer in the awards’ history, though it’s a distinction he is keen to shrug off when I speak to him....
...He focused on the experiences of mountaineers and polar explorers, which he summarised as “unrelenting misery from beginning to end”, and dangerous, too....
...Here, DuVernay gives us that photograph — and another, still more vivid, of a mountaineer. Overlooked at the Oscars, the film is the year’s Best Socio-Historical-Contemporary-Biopic....
...Sikkim Rebecca Stephens, the first British woman to climb Everest (and a former FT staffer), is returning to the Himalayas to lead a trek in memory of the pioneering mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew...
...Located in Zuoz, Switzerland, Starling will be returning an image of the Morteratsch Glacier (originally taken by the 19th-century Swiss photographer and mountaineer Jules Beck) back to its source....
...I blame George Herbert Leigh-Mallory, the English mountaineer who participated in the first British Mount Everest expeditions in the early 20th century....
...Last year, a quiet mountaineer, teacher and journalist, Cédric Sapin-Defour, found that he had become a bestselling writer with Son odeur après la pluie (“His smell after the rain”), a lovely, thoughtful...
...Vanke was founded by mountaineer and social media personality Wang Shi in 1984 and brought in Rmb504bn ($70bn) in revenue in 2022, according to its latest annual report....
...No mountaineer wants to be rescued but these comments were somehow a great comfort as we swooped back down through the valley in the helicopter, reflecting on our escape....
...In books, the arc of parenting can be seen as an adventure, with setbacks and triumphs, like becoming a mountaineer or pursuing a great love affair, worthy of inquiry....
...Every mountaineer will tell you that the biggest enemy of cold on a mountain is warmth, because when you are too warm you start sweating and condensing. So when it gets cold you are freezing....
...Mountaineers and later motorists had long been drawn to the region’s peaks and the hairpin bends of the Grossglockner high alpine road, which rises north from Heiligenblut....
...The veteran naturalist can be heard discussing the photographs submitted by the mountaineer Eric Shipton after he climbed Everest in the early 1950s showing large footprints in the snow....
...But the more Kadare digs, the more the truth eludes him. Was the catalyst for the conversation a poem, penned by Mandelstam, that appeared to describe Stalin as the “Kremlin mountaineer”?...
...Their driving force was Arnold Lunn, a charismatic mountaineer who had the look of a kindly Edwardian headmaster and the wild-eyed adrenalin lust of a base jumper....
...Often the scouts have to cut a snow ladder from the water line to a place where the mountaineers can click into their skis and commence their ascent....
...Ten steps away no one hears our speeches All we hear is the Kremlin mountaineer, The soul-corrupter and peasant-slayer His fingers are fat as grubs And the words, final as lead weights, fall from his...
...After leaving politics in 2015, she played Lear in a widely praised performance in 2016, which one critic likened to “a mountaineer returning to the fray with an assault on Everest”....
...This is perhaps most aggressively expressed by Fanny Cradock, the celebrity chef who, viewed through modern eyes, seems mainly a ruthless social mountaineer who could only have sprung up in the peculiar...
...It is all dangerously reminiscent of the doomed mountaineers who claimed they wanted to climb Everest simply because it’s there. Reader, they perished on the ice. miranda.green@ft.com...
...Seiko is also offering three new models for what one might call the lifestyle diver inside all of us. Tallest Peaks is a dive watch named after Seiko-wearing mountaineer Naomi Uemura....
...on the way (although as “the mountaineer” on the team I stayed mostly below deck)....
...For live updates see goldengloberace.com Stephen Venables is a mountaineer and writer; he was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen...
...Also guiding the group will be Chris Davenport, a well-known ski mountaineer and former world extreme skiing champion, and Doug Stoup, a pioneer of skiing in Antarctica....
...Purja certainly doesn’t look like the traditional mountaineer of past decades....
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