every Social media post of my friends and contacts out adventuring which one enthralled and inspired me now created jealousy, resentment and more self loathingRead more
Posts tagged: #personal
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.Read more
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. Read more
Get a plan.
A goal. They say a goal without a plan is just a dream.Read more
The Pendulum
The Pendulum is swinging further and further from my passionRead more
Mental Mountains
Or rather, I’d been stuck for 30 years, forever perplexed by an apparently impossible series of crux moves on some distant soaring crag.Read more
Dreams of Chamonix
I learned the hard way that we need to accept a few things in life.Read more
