The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have been put there by dramatic volcanic eruptions billions of years ago

I continue to be in love with this book.

Last swim of the year? 😢

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Spent the whole day at work today (with other people - a novelty!) with my t-shirt inside out. Will try harder tomorrow.

Reading a book about extreme sports and the search for transcendent experiences that just keeps uncovering incredible stories.

Doesn’t feel like new news, but interesting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...

Floods and power cuts at the Alpine Club hit in Patterdale last night. Not hopeful for train home this morning #stormamy

NOOOOOOOOO! NOT PHILIP FAIRCLOTH-MUTTON!!!!!!

Fucking mince pies in the supermarket.

Thanks for the advice, @markhorrell.bsky.social. www.markhorrell.com/blog/2025/wh...

Things getting a bit 'meta' in the heritage masculinity space as celebrity explorers the Turner Twins replicate a replica clothing project... www.port.ac.uk/news-events-... @peterhhansen.bsky.social @sarahmpicks.bsky.social @waymarks.bsky.social @jasewilson.bsky.social @7mmrope.bsky.social

@carltonreid.com This might take you back… or were you not involved in Crans Montana '88?

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“Unpack once” is such a great - but minor - promise to feature in an ad for a cruise. #itv4

Anyone else used ChatGPT for gym / running training programmes? Because all you're doing on subscription apps is putting some data into an algorithm right? i.e. give ChatGPT all the info that you're usually asked on an app sign-up and you're away.

Isn’t it good when you feel good on a bike.

Heatwave across large parts of Europe. If you're riding around France in summer and don't have a team car then www.eau-cyclisme.com website can be very useful, lists places where you can get drinking water for free

Four days on the Alta Via Della Frontiera, Alpe Marittime 💜 www.instagram.com/p/DLdKfmRMyv...

RIP Don Cook mbaction.com/mountain-bik...

Nick Cave.

I mean, who takes crampons to a pub in Forest Gate? 🙋🏼‍♂️

Great piece here by Tom Wolfe – his last for Esquire – about Bob Noyce of Intel and the beginnings of Silicon Valley… www.esquire.com/news-politic...

That very particular feeling of sunburnt toes.

Reached that stage of the hike where everything smells like saucisson

Well done. I found the Altopiano della Gardetta to be truly special on a mountain bike when I visited years ago. A high, hidden, paradise.

Been wanting to make it here for years!

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

From the archive, 7 years ago: #Top10 Geographic Anomalies independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...

I posted the first of these pictures on the other place in October 2024, and I’m back in Cannes eight months later and see the second bike in exactly the same place, and all I can say is this guy has some bike collection and very little regard for its safety.

This is a long way out there. “Only upon later reflection did they realize that the seemingly authoritative system was a word-association machine that had pulled them into a quicksand of delusional thinking.”

The childlike joy of Americans on Eurostar. The tiny glasses, the cutlery. How civilise train travel can be!

In honor of Brian Wilson's passing, here are the four categories of Beach Boys songs: 1. surfing is great, you should try it 2. I have a good vehicle 3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love 4. sloop john b

Out tomorrow -- just in time for father's day. It's certainly what I'm giving my father.

Sometimes I wonder if we were being replace by AI years ago…

@snfschlee.bsky.social I'm sure you saw this, but … mailchi.mp/7cafaa77b217...

Another wild view of yesterday’s Mount Etna eruption that sent tourists and guides running

Sun Ra departed the planet earth on May 30 1993. He travels the spaceways from planet to planet. Space is the place. #SunRa

On May 28, the small Alpine village of Blatten, Switzerland, was almost entirely buried under a massive landslide, following the collapse of a nearby glacier.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

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British climbers (including one MP) summit Everest five days after leaving the UK after using xenon gas to help against altitude sickness: www.reuters.com/science/brit...

Trying to get my head round how this could make it to print. Many warning signs for all of us

Five minutes of chat on BBC R4 Today programme this morning on how autonomous vehicles are coming by 2027... lots of chat about how to make them publicly acceptable, but no question about *why* we supposedly need them. What problem is this meant to solve, and is it worth all the investment?

This is pretty amazing. Canadian ultracyclist Sarah Ruggins is about 150km away from beating the absolute JOGLEJOG record – male or female. She only took up cycling a couple of years ago after years of illness and paralysis dotwatcher.cc/race/sarah-r... www.instagram.com/sarah_ruggins/

Now officially an associate member of the Alpine Club :)

Duncan Fallowell's April 1972 review of Nick Drake's Pink Moon (in Records and Recording magazine).

This’ll be something.

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme temperatures in Europe.