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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Ten days ago I set off on an expedition to cross the Finnmarksvidda plateau in northern Norway on ski. After five days of hauling a pulk and camping in temperatures below -30°c, we travelled just under 100km.

A figure in dark clothing is ascending a snowy rise towards the sunrise with a arc overhead

Wrapped up in several layers of clothing to ski with a pulk loaded with camping gear

A figure in dark clothing stands by tent pitched on snow lit by the green light of the aurora

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I genuinely believe there's a couple of Winter Olympic events that I could have had a solid chance at competing in if I started training four years ago when I last had this thought.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Snacks prepared and bags packed. Ready for the airport in the morning.

A close up of an orange duffel bag and a grey and orange ski bag

Piles of snack bags and energy bars laid out on a blanket

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It was a pretty quiet January at home for a change, mainly sheltering from the wild and windy winter weather. Doing cosy stuff like reading books, baking bread and doing jigsaws by the fire. #winter

A slightly dog-eared paperback copy of the book The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett lying on a blanket.

A view of the village under grey skies in a rare break in the rain, with rolling white water hitting the outside of the harbour

A completed jigsaw with a collage of tiger faces as the design. Quite a tricky one.

Another jigsaw with a design featuring the leaves of houseplants. I enjoyed this one more.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Took myself out for a fancy dinner in the Bergen Fishmarket. A bowl of crab claws, some gravlaks with sweet mustard sauce, and fresh bread smeared in seaweed garlic butter. Yum

An array of shellfish on display in the fishmarket

Gravlaks and knekkebrød with a glass of white wine

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A driech day in one of my favourite cities, Bergen. Just passing through on a wee autumn adventure in Norway.

The sign opposite the airport which says "Bergen?" in large yellow letters, surrounded by trees in autumn colours. Like the iconic Hollywood sign but designed for drizzlier weather.

The view from my window of the edge of the fishmarket and the fjord ferry terminal in the driech.

And the view of the picturesque city port, though the upper parts of the mountains and the funicular are obscured by rain clouds.

The old wooden buildings of Bryggen world heritage site in the rain.

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

‘We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

A stunning approach to the landing at Nuuk airport in Greenland. I'm on the way to join the @aurora_expeditions Sylvia Earle for an epic adventure through the Northwest Passage. #NorthWestPassage #PolarGuide www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Does that actually mean bin bananas? Didn't matter, the cake was lovely and squishy

A small cardboard box containing a dessert that is part of an airline meal. The box reads "carrot cake. Made with upcycled bananas and carrots"

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Well, today's plans have been dynamic. Now on the way to somewhere else instead #Greenland

Screenshot of a news article headline about the suspension of international passenger screening at Nuuk, Greenland

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A great day of skills development training on the Line of Sight full-bore shooting range in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. Not a bad result either #PolarGuide

A rifle pointing down a shooting range in the hills

A layout showing me holding the rifle for an aimed shot, a paper target with a close grouping in the centre, and a metal target shaped like a roe deer

A button with Line of Sight 500 yards on it.

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Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com · 14/08/2025

Yesterday marked 30 years since British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves died in a storm on K2. My story on the Hargreaves-Ballard climbing dynasty in @thefence.bsky.social from last year about risk, control, blame, why people climb and how we tell their stories: www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

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In the Shadow of the Mountain

The soundscape of falling ice.

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LucyCB-T @lucycbt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Poem @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social wrote a few months ago & posted on X as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed. 💔

Screenshot of a post on X by Michael Rosen: A poem he wrote a few months ago as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Started watching #DestinationX and feel that this is the one thing in life that all my skills and experience have prepared me for.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“There is a problematic underlying approach in how UNEP operates, which is to consider that the people who created the problems, benefited from the problem, have lied about the problem and their responsibility about it for years and decades, are trustworthy partners to solve those problems.”

theguardian.com

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I don't get a mobile phone signal at home, so just went out in my pyjamas to stand by the harbour to phone the mechanic about repairs to my van and got caught by the Google Street view car.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Did you know you can get fossils inside other fossils? 🤯 Tiny holes in some of our marine reptile fossils are actually burrows of bone-eating worms which are up to 100 million years old! They've now been named as new species - find out more about them 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons | Natural History Museum

Bone-eating worms have been cleaning up the ocean floor for over 100 million years.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Fascinated by revalations that have come out around the author of the book/film The Salt Path. I wondered about the progress of Moth's illness after finishing the book, and there just seemed a few other odd things that I couldn't quite put my finger on about the story. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I'm leading a team of Ship Liaison Officers at the Aberdeen Tall Ships Festival at the end of July. Getting stuck in to the event training from this week onwards. #tallshipsaberdeen #sailing

A graphic for the Tall Ships Races event in Aberdeen held between 19th and 22nd July 2025, with the text "I'm a tall ships volunteer" and "sea you there!"

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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

BBC News - Flood alert for Highland and Moray areas affected by wildfires - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wildfires shut roads in Highlands and Moray

Firefighters are dealing with incidents near Forres and Carrbridge.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A turnaround day in port in Aberdeen let me be a tourist in my hometown, so I went searching for unicorns and followed the city's NUART street art trail #Scotland #Aberdeen

The ABERDEEN sculpture in Union Terrace Gardens, surrounded by green on a sunny day, with the silver granite building of the central library and His Majesty's theatre behind

A rainbow-coloured unicorn constructed from trash materials on the end of a building on the NUART trail

A mirror sculpture of a unicorn hidden amongst the greenery under a tree in Union Terrace Gardens

Monochrome street art portrait of a woman holding a small unicorn tucked into an old doorway on Correction Wynd

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Two crew have died and more injured as Mexican sail training vessel Cuauhtémoc collides with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Two dead as Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I'd like to thank Mrs Forbes, my standard grade history teacher for remembering the name of the assassin who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand after 30 years or so.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Went to the local pub quiz last night and managed to fish a fact from the deepest depths of my brain to be the only person in the room to know the answer to one question. Still my team came in 7th place

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Caught David Attenborough's #Oceans documentary at the cinema the other night, and incredible to see on a big screen. Some stunning underwater filming and powerful storytelling, including highlighting the scale of industrial krill fishing in #Antarctica. #DavidAttenborough #blueplanet

A large screen in a dark cinema showing a film sequence of a huge trawler vessel passing an iceberg covered in penguins. The blows of whales are seen in the slate-grey water. The entire scene looks very monochrome

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Beltane sunrise paddle out of Stonehaven, and a close encounter with dolphins just off Downie Point.

A paddleboard sitting on the deck at the top of a shingle beach, the sea in the bay is mirror flat and golden with the reflected sunrise.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Wordle 1,384 3/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So close

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Late season sunrise on the Weddell Sea, at the start of one of the most excellent days of my polar guide experience so far.

The first light of the day on the dark water of the Antarctic Sound.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

3 years ago today, I was in the #SouthGeorgia museum in Grytviken when we received exciting news. The #Endurance22 expedition had discovered the wreck of Shackleton's ship. The story of the search is now on the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust website. fmht.co.uk/shackletons-...

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How Endurance was found. Animated Search Map - FMHT

Explore our new animated Search Map, showing the journey of Agulhas II during the 2022 Weddell Sea hunt for Endurance.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 04/03/2025

This #PancakeDay here's our recipe for pancake ice: 🧊 Get some ice forming on the top of your water 🌊 Bump bits of ice together with small waves ♻️ This rounds their edges as they freeze! 🥞 Grow the disc edges with trapped frozen foam These pancakes will be up to 3m wide + 10m thick. Bon Appétit 👩‍🍳

The surface of the ocean is frozen, but in a layer of round patches that all tesselate together.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Portraits of the Europa voyage crew as they complete the first stage of their hands aloft training, climbing up the ratlines on the shrouds to reach the first platform on the main mast. From here they'll learn to move on the yards and work with the sails. #BarkEuropa #PolarGuide #Antarctica

A woman with blonde hair and a bobble hat high over the deck of the ship. She is smiling.

A guy in a yellow jacket and sunglasses high over the deck of the ship. He is smiling.

A guy in a yellow hat and dark glasses high over the deck of the ship. He is leaning back, making a gesture to the photographer and smiling.

A woman in black leaning out from the futtock shrouds as she climbs up the mast. She is laughing with the photographer.

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The Atavist Magazine @atavist.com · 28/02/2025

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to the South Pole captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived. From @tchotchke.bsky.social, it's Atavist no. 160: magazine.atavist.com/from-antarct...

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The Love Story Hiding in a Legendary Tragedy

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to Antarctica captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Familiarisation with the ship starts with a safety walk on deck, starting to learn the ropes, and climbing training on the Beagle Channel. #BarkEuropa #PolarGuide #Antarctica

Climbing safety training briefing for the voyage crew. A group of people gathered under the main mast shrouds looking at another person climbing up the rat lines.

Looking up at a person on the futtock shrouds as they climb to the first platform on the main mast.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A stunning sunset over the mountains of Ushuaia as Europa set out on the Beagle Channel at the end of last month. #BarkEuropa #PolarGuide #Antarctica

A sunset sky of golden orange and deep indigo, with low cloud in silhouette and a line of ragged mountains on the horizon, reflected in the dark water below.

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Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Back to the real world* after an awesome voyage to Antarctica on the tallship Bark Europa with a fantastic crew. Just started sorting out the photos, but expect a lot of icy ship spam incoming. #Antarctica #PolarGuide #BarkEuropa *internet connection

Dutch tallship Bark Europa at anchor in front of the glacier at Port Lockroy in Antarctica on a gloomy day. The top of the ice wall is lost in the low snow clouds.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Virgo: You'll receive a gift of fancy soap today. The scent will bring back so many memories. The soap can't wash them away. Nothing can.

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