I forgot that! 🤮🤮🤮

😂😂😂 good old Bear, you can’t dislike him even if he is cheesy.

Does the desperate act of drinking your own pee actually work, or is it just a survival myth that refuses to die? Well here’s my answer 👇

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Here's a writeup of my packrafting trip through Assynt in northwest Scotland a few weeks ago. I've only ever written a handful of pieces on my own travels, it's always about someone else, so I hope you enjoy. If you do, feel free to pass it on.

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Video #1 from packrafting in Assynt last week. A stony beachside camp with the hulking mass of Suilven looming in the background. I’d spent a few hours making very slow progress through a headwind and whitecaps to this point, so the calmer evening was a welcome respite.

It was brilliant!

Antarctica is usually unoccupied except for scientists, wealthy tourists, and adventurers. Surprisingly, though, a small number of children have entered the world there. My latest for ExplorersWeb.

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It was superb!

I didn’t summit a single peak this time, that will have to be put right on my next visit. And it definitely won’t take me another 20 years.

Here’s a few briefly edited phone snaps, no big camera this time. Will be spamming more over the next few weeks on Instagram.

The geology boggles the mind: billion-year-old Lewisian gneiss forming the loch-strewn lowlands, punctured by Torridonian sandstone towers like Suilven, Cul Mòr, and Stac Pollaidh, rising abruptly and improbably from the landscape. It is a place that feels both ancient and otherworldly.

I’ve wanted to see Suilven’s serrated ridge since first reading about it 20 years ago. I regret waiting so long, Assynt blew me away, every bit as wild and humbling as landscapes I’ve trekked in Greenland or Siberia. Rarely have I felt true awe in the hills, but I did here.

Apart from one wild, windy day, I struck gold: bluebird skies, mirror-still water, and beach camps every night. The kind of luck you could return twenty times and never find again.

Now back home from five days of slow travel packrafting through Assynt, northwest Scotland. Paddling along Lochs Veyatie and Fionn, portaging to, and circling every inch of Sionascaig and its web of smaller lochs and lochans.

Most importantly looks like a good cheese sandwich there, the right size slices and ratio of cheese to bread!

You should! First time speaking to him. Nice guy.

Grateful to be a finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Festival article prize among excellent company for my @thefence.bsky.social story 'In the Shadow of the Mountain'. www.banffcentre.ca/articles/mou...

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A brief tale of two young men planning their trek using ChatGPT. My latest for ExWeb.

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Yeah his model graphed out is like a parabola. As you add more food (and thus range in terms of days), the distance first increases, reaches a peak at the sweet spot, then curves back down as the food "penalty" overwhelms you. But as Dial suggests, this doesn't account for your pack lightening.

One for you @dermotncosgrove.bsky.social

One of my favorite stories I’ve written for ExWeb. Roman Dial is both an Alaskan backcountry legend and a mathematician. He combined the two to come up with a formula on how far you can hike unsupported.

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Swimming and wild camping should be a right for all people to enjoy in the English countryside, Labour MPs have said.

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On September 4, team of mostly Canadian paddlers brought their canoes ashore in Waskaganish, a Cree community on James Bay. They had completed a 1,200km journey that began three months earlier in Tadoussac, Quebec, where the Saguenay River meets the St Lawrence.

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In 1911, Scott and Amundsen reached for the South Pole with little grasp of human limits. A century later, tech and training have advanced, but sled hauling remains challenging. Three decades of research now reveal how Antarctic expeditions transform the body.

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