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Feet and Wheels to Chimborazo

Feet and Wheels to Chimborazo

His cheeks are as tender as raw meat on a butcher’s block. And those are just the cheeks of his face. As he slumps in the saddle, watching the road disappear into the distance, he aches in parts of his body that he’s only just discovering he has…When...

Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest

Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest

As he teetered on a narrow rock ledge a yak’s bellow short of the stratosphere, with a rubber mask strapped to his face, a pair of mittens the size of a sealion’s flippers, and a drop of two kilometres below him, it’s fair to say Mark Horrell wasn’t...

Sherpa Hospitality as a Cure for Frostbite

Sherpa Hospitality as a Cure for Frostbite

The heroic story of how Sherpas stood up and took control of their destinyEver since Europeans started exploring the world’s highest mountains and trying to reach their summits in the early 20th century, Sherpas have been an integral part of...

The Chomolungma Diaries

The Chomolungma Diaries

In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so.He joined a mountaineering expedition which included an Australian sexagenarian, two...

The Manaslu Adventure

The Manaslu Adventure

The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks.Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroyed a...

Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.He made not one, not two,...