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A collection of Guardian and Observer journalism covering tales of endurance and derring-do, from the past 200 years.
Links
BMC
Calm & Fearless
Climb Magazine
Dead Air Space
digitalarchive
livefortheoutdoors
MediaGuardian
Mountain Heritage Trust
Outside
Royal Geographical Society
SLSC
TGO
The Mountain Library
Time to eat the dogs
UKClimbing.com
Blogs
currybetdotnet
Word Magazine
Greenslade
Peter Scott's Library Blog
ResourceShelf
Footless Crow
vexed issue
Alastair Humphreys
Visions of the North
Phil Bradley
Organ Grinder
Do you swim here often?
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Blog Archive
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2011
(26)
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December
(1)
December 14 1911: Roald Amundsen reaches the south...
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September
(2)
Blue plaque for Edward Whymper
The death of John Hanning Speke
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July
(1)
Not to be sold separately: The Observer Colour Mag...
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June
(2)
Douglas Mawson on Twitter
Colin Kirkus
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April
(1)
Tarnbagging in the Lake District
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March
(6)
The Abalakov thread
Climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Henry Morton Stanley statue unveiled
Night of Adventure
Art at the rockface
Fine dining on Everest
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February
(3)
Gunther Plüschow
Adolphus Greely
Doom of English forests
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January
(10)
Takeshiro Matsuura
Matthew Flinders and his map of Australia
Aleister Crowley and Gilles de Rais
In search of James Fitzjames
On this day - January 17 1912: Scott reaches the s...
The abominable snowman
Brockwell Lido Midwinter swim (again)
Climbing Everest: Noble adventure or Selfish Pursu...
The 'discovery' of Machu Picchu
On this day - January 5 1922: Ernest Shackleton di...
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2010
(87)
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December
(4)
George Everest and the Manor Hotel
Wim Hof: The Iceman
Silken flag at the South Pole
Leningradskaya Station
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November
(6)
Celebrity timepieces
Albert Smith and the Ascent of Mont Blanc
A couple of thoughts on Jim Perrin's West
To the Himalayas on £250
On this day: A Century of Mountaineering, November...
Sir Francis Chichester
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October
(8)
Faking it
Putting online communities on the map
Survival stories
Franklin fictions review
On this day: Douglas Mawson dies, October 14 1958
James Caird
Tryggve Gran interview with Roland Huntford
Race for the South Pole
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September
(8)
Gordon Bennett
Conquistadors of the Useless
On the Proper Use of Stars
127 Hours
Georgy Brusilov
Millican Dalton
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July
(4)
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June
(9)
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May
(4)
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April
(9)
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March
(9)
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February
(12)
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January
(14)
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2009
(54)
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December
(15)
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November
(20)
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October
(17)
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September
(2)
About Me
Richard Nelsson
Richard Nelsson is chief librarian of the Guardian and the Observer. He is the editor of the
Guardian Book of Mountains
,
Those Who Dared
and
Double Measures.
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