Category: Mental Health

  • Monday’s suck. Right? Not always!

    Four and a half hours later, back at the car, a quick change into comfy trainers (not better feeling) and I had one last coffee standing breathing in the mountain air before closing the boot , jumping in the driver seat and heading for home…. Monday – best day ever!

  • US National Park Roadtrip

    quite simply the most amazing trip of out lives as we toured 5 US states and visited 6 of the most famous national parks during a loping 3000 mile road trip around the Colorado river basin

  • Resolute

    It’s a new year and getting outside is only a few steps away – especially with a forest and castle on my doorstep

  • Magnetic Mountains

    the journey in life echos the climbs.. the plans (or lack of), the decisions that need to be made, the sacrifices, the mistakes

  • My mind has taken away my love of the mountains

    I’m sat on my sofa staring at a pair of expedition boots I bought a few weeks ago.  They were bought for two planned expeditions – Mont Blanc and Island Peak.  Yet now I have no hope of getting there.

  • A common purpose

    Everyone was just doing their thing, and connecting around the common purpose….climbing.

  • The Fortitude to recover

    Team Fortitude was set up with the sole aim of raising funds for Rock 2 Recovery. R2R is an amazing organization that works with servicemen/women/veterans and their families affected by PTSD/MBTI’s.

  • In the life zone

    This land unchanged for millennia, carved over eons of ice, rain and wind. The deer and birds running and flying paths led by their ancestors for time untold.

  • A mountain journey like no other.

    Yet, I regards myself as a very lucky person, I have studied my demons, I’ve kept these ‘mental’ enemies close