Skiing down in a white out!

UK govt warned of infected blood risks in 1970s.
I feel so sad to think I spent 2y as junior doc where my job was to treat haemophiliac patients with blood products. It often spilled on me, splashed on face & eyes, I was lucky, some of my patients weren’t
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Still enough snow for a toptur but watch out for stones XD

Climbing a couloir up Sverdruphamaren (433) whilst watching little auks and ptarmigans.

Barely any snow in the dale, but look at this interesting cloud formation.

Two hunters have died after consuming venison from a population of deer known to be infected with chronic wasting disease – an incurable, fatal prion sometimes known as 'zombie deer' disease not dissimilar to mad cow disease.
sciencealert.com/zombie-deer-di…

Svalbard: Doorway to the arctic

Happy #WorldPenguinDay 🐧🐧🐧There are 5 penguin species to see here in the Falkland Islands (sometimes supervising my fieldwork). You've got the southern rockhopper, gentoo, Magellanic (or jackass), King, occasional macaroni- and Pebble Island's giant penguin for fun!

I’m proud to have been nominated and shortlisted for Sporting Excellence Award. I don’t intend to win but if tales of my mountaineering and ice climbing has inspired anyone that’s the win I need.

Can’t wait to be back home to go climbing with you all!

Longyearbyen ‘overflow’.

This guy actually thinks this is cool, and recalls asking his mum if he could get one as a child and I would have been his idol. Says mine looks cooler than an AirStream Bullet which is what the words ‘Chrome Caravan’ originally conjured.

It's World Penguin Day, but as we celebrate this charismatic animal, have a thought about how they are reacting to climate change. Our new paper released today gives a short assessment of emperor struggles with sea ice loss. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Whilst locked in a cabin during a snowstorm I let slip that I live in a caravan at home and the guy I was with has started taking a genuine interest- wanting to see photographs and offering to hitchhike all the way to Cornwall to help me do maintenance. As a child he wanted one.

I swim a lot in the polar waters.

40% of lung cancer in non smoking women related to wood burning. Calls to ban wood-burning stoves in UK by 2027. Campaigners are calling for a ban on wood-burning stoves in UK homes by 2027 due to serious health & environmental worries. gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

A lot of life on Svalbard is about cultural exchange so here I am enjoying stockbrot with the Germans.

A very special bird has returned to Stonehenge! This is Gertie (Gertrude), a female Great Bustard. If you see Gertie during your visit, remember to give her plenty of space.

Find out more about the group working to protect the Great Bustard ➡️ greatbustard.org

Not county, but nation.

When Cornish people are forced out of Cornwall, we are forced out of our nation.

That’s why it feels so immensely tragic and unjust for us. Only by imagining being forced to leave England could the English understand.
cornwalllive.com/news/news-opin…

With temperatures of +3 everything is an ugly muddy mess of slush with an avalanche warning of 4! The sea ice has gone. Really genuinely horrible turn of events.

There is an old meteorology station 1000m asl on Nordenshïoldfjellet, this weekend we experienced 30m/s winds.

A Barnardo's has popped up not far from me. The playful font gives an innocent vibe which really isn't indicative of the charity's history. God knows how many Scottish Gypsy Traveller children were shipped abroad via Barnardo's. #tinkerexperiments