Author Archives: tpltravelled

Along a few Edges.First evening of the year when your ears and nose tingle with the cold. A think over the last few days of whether ‘we’ are getting less and less resilient to the winter ? Minus 6c on Higger at 4pm.Roads and paths with a northerly aspect frozen hard.The SUV pirouetting display teamContinue reading “Gerrin’ Colder ..”

… we are often force fed the greenwashing of outdoor brands as they proudly tell us the environmental cost of making our shiny new bit of outdoor clothing – rather than *actually* doing anything about the environmental cost !!!! but seldom does the human cost of meeting the incessant demand for new make the newsContinue reading “At What Cost ?”

Back in the dark ages when I was at 6th Form I was in to the cleverest things that the words of the English language could do on a page. I’d written and had locally published a couple of anthologies of poetry (* by published I mean photocopied and folded in half and stapled andContinue reading “Thirty Three Years Later”

A song by Sean Cooney about Rollo the dog that saved Mary North the newborn baby in Bradfield that was swept off in the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 … Listen

The usual gathering of friends at OCC and over-indulgence in cheeses marked another lap of the sun. Feeling fed, spoilt and grateful.

*Reader caution – the podcast and documentary cover the subject of multiple deaths. A podcast by Steve House in which he recounts some of the (non traumatic) detail of his involvement in the discovery and rescue / recovery of a large party of ski-tourers on the Haute Route on 29 April 2018. Seven of themContinue reading “Todesfalle”

The Human Factors Manifesto is a new initiative by James Thacker (IFMGA British Mountain Guide and owner of Mountain Assurance ) The Human Factors Manifesto has 2 aims: People and organisations that sign up to the manifesto agree to align to four commitments: Commit to develop the HF skills for optimum performance To embed HFContinue reading “Human Factors Manifesto”

For reasons unknown Ordnance Survey are removing their ‘OS Locate’ app from Android app stores on 1 Nov 2023. From 1/11/23 …. The app can’t be downloaded to Android devices. It can be downloaded to Apple devices. It will still work on Android if downloaded before 1/11/23 but it won’t be supported by future updatesContinue reading “Adieu Old Friend”

aka ‘fight the elements first’ An article on the World Extreme Medicine website about the critical importance of winning the environment fight first when treating hypothermia … READ ….. and on the subject of getting VERY cold … a short interview with a deeply hypothermic fellrunner who was rescued by Keswick MRT and underwent ECMOContinue reading “Bothies Before Bandages”

In the United Kingdom the clocks go back one hour this year at 2am on Sunday 29th October. William Willett was one of the original campaigners for the concept of ‘daylight saving’. His original proposal was for the clocks to be put forward by 80 minutes in total, in four steps of 20 minutes eachContinue reading “No Surprises”