Obviously I knew that putting my book onto the publishing conveyor belt would mean the appearance of deadlines.

(Part one. Of many)

I hadn’t expected this.

Or: what’s been usual, and what has not.

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An Austrian guide will soon lead trips up the world’s highest peak in less time than an average beach holiday. Is adventure travel going too high, too fast?

6,400m up a rarely climbed peak in the Himalayas, two climbers lost most of their kit – and nearly their lives. One of them, Fay Manners, explains what keeps her climbing