Be a shame if you retweeted this and his face went everywhere..

This is good reporting from Explorersweb. Seven Summit Treks have gone on the record in the past as saying Everest guides don't need to be highly qualified. Er, wrong. explorersweb.com/sherpa-who-die…

Look up from the keyboard and there's a young male sparrowhawk parked on the window ledge trying to shelter from the rain. Grumpy as hell. Never seen anything like that before.

Incoming.

Hogan-Howe, from leading the misogynistic and racist Met and serving in South Yorks during the miner’s strike and Hillsborough to laying siege to cyclists in the House of Lords.

Ah, an ex-special forces TV adventurer who’s been to prison for assaulting a police officer. Red meat for the gammon.

I mean, come on, this is just getting ridiculous. Victor’s almost old enough to be US president. explorersweb.com/veteran-climbe…

Hechle was a remarkable woman.

Devastating late monsoon floods and landslides claim at least 50 lives across Nepal. Hidden behind the news from the southeastern United States if hurricane deaths. kathmandupost.com/national/2024/…

The death toll from Nepal’s intense storm continues to grow. PM KP Oli was in the US last week answering questions from the Nepali diaspora. It’s clear from his answers that he doesn’t grasp the impacts of climate change. theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

Except that Henry Ford was even worse and EVERYONE drove his cars.

China folk take note. Did two German geographers imagine a fictional Silk Road that never existed? Most Chinese silk reached Rome on Indian ships via Egypt according to this fine review of William Dalrymple's new book: The Golden Road. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

I'm just finishing Sword of Hounour and can see the truth of this.

A new adventure writing award in memory of Tom Grass.

Milo Minderbinder rides again.

Excellent round-up from Sonia Awale of last week's devastating floods in Nepal. Half of the Kathmandu Valley's annual rainfall fell in less than two days but weak or absent government made it so much worse. nepalitimes.com/editorial/when…

Churchill from a trench in Flanders in 1916: 'When all the sick & wounded have been tended, when all their impoverished & broken hearted homes have been restored, when every hospital is gorged with money ... then & not till then would I concern myself with those penguins.'

I wrote about Dechen in my Himalaya book, partly because of the spurious tourist city built there called Shangri-La City (from James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon). Now it turns out the region is a hotbed of corruption. Who would have predicted that? savetibet.org/investigation-…

Imagine if they spent £22 billion on restoring peat bogs, the oceans, forests (proven carbon capture), or on public transport, insulation, solar – literally anything but this, which is just playing into the hands of the fossil fuel bros and delaying the transition to green energy

Idiocy from The Labour Party. Restore peat lands for less money, do a favour for nature and don’t prop up legacy oil and gas.