Freya Stark: footprints in the sand
Bewitched by the Middle East, Freya Stark was a complex blend of fragility and wilfulness
Asia
Things they said: Sir Edmund Hillary
“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.” Sir Edmund Hillary
Bill Murray: a quiet man with a great vision
When mountaineer Bill Murray was captured by German soldiers in 1942, he had to find a way for his spirit to break free…
George Mallory – from life to legend
A mountaineer whose name is forever linked with Everest, George Mallory had an aura that drew people towards him – and you can still sense it, even today
The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorge – part two
A plant collector and a British spy… two intrepid explorers, lured by the mystery of an unexplored canyon and the ‘Lost Falls’ of the Brahmaputra
Jo Woolf 
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