Picture of street filled with people when cars are prohibited, with a prominent sign saying “road closed.” Via Urban Truth Collecrive (Also, it’s a street, not a road)
How come they keep spelling “open” wrong?
Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth
Fascinating to be in Lima as Peruvians go to the polls to elect a new president. The authorities ban the sale of alcohol beforehand. But as I told our waiter, you need to be drunk to vote for most politicians these days.
New podcast! Talking with Caroline Schaumann about Humboldtian science in the mountains - feeling, failure, and queer sensibilities + 19th C. mountaineering in print, archive and film #EnvHist #Mountaineering #Alps #Andes
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Never liked the word ‘rambler’ for walker. All bobble hats and Werther’s Originals. The Spanish term ‘senderista’ on the other hand…
Quite funny that Hannah Spencer was chilling as a plumbing influencer about a month ago.
Now it seems she's already better at politics, speech writing, and public speaking than the Prime Minister and most of his team.
And she could sort your pipes and walls out. Impressive.
Peter Hansen is always worth hearing on the subject of Everest and imperialism.
New podcast! We talk to historian of science
@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
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Tension builds at 2am outside @calmandfearless.bsky.social's bedroom window in today's @theguardian.com country diary.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”
An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.
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Very rich people knew they'd not be affected by Brexit or MAGA. They have mobility and money. Just a game and a gamble.
It's amazing to see so many new responses to and interpretations of Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain. Wish she could have known the legs that book had.
The Fram Museum (if you're ever in Oslo, then go) is reporting that Roland Huntford has died, deep into his 90s. It took someone born in South Africa to offer a more realistic picture of Scott, but his intention, he said, to was to do justice to Amundsen. Can't argue with that.
Far from being stopped, fake rescues are continuing in Nepal. Police say in a 30-month period insurance companies were defrauded of $20 million dollars. kathmandupost.com/money/2026/0...
A sobering account of the recent accident on Makalu when a client was left to descend alone following the death of one of his guides and subsequently disappeared himself. Tragic, but begs a lot of questions. www.climbing.com/news/how-gui...
As Nic says, so moving. Robin song is soul food even without grief.
They’re certainly floaters.
Really handy how all the crap Tories are congealing in the same u-bend.
Sorry to hear that Mark Tully has died. Another world now, and a more tolerant one. Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It would be great to get through just one day without being forced to think about him.
The RSPB reports six of its satellite-tagged Hen Harriers 'disappeared' on or close to grouse moors in England in 2025, and another one was illegally poisoned.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍
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Liz Truss: 'I crashed an entire country in 49 days.' Donald Trump: 'Hold my diet coke!'
Morning all...
Sue me, but I thought Adolescence over-hyped. Prison drama Waiting for the Out, on the other hand, hasn't been getting the attention it deserves. (Go BBC!) Josh Finan was inspired casting. Can switch in an instant from being a frightened boy to a tough-minded intellectual.
So anti-elitist.
Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
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Muntjac are about an inch long? Roe twice that. Both in Greno Woods, I believe.
Looks like squirrel to me and possibly muntjac? Or roe? How big are your feet?!
Superb and absolutely damning long read on HS2.
www.ft.com/content/3f73... How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway
You did see it in Cardiff! It's transferred up here. Abi Palmer show. And yes, the disco made it. Weirdly relaxing.
