This year's Rick Allen Memorial Talk is being given by AC member @annamfleming.bsky.social. Anna will be discussing her book Time on Rock and her experience of mountaineering with Bolivia's Cholita climbers. Held on 21 October at Birmingham University, the talk is free to attend & open to all.

It’s book publication day for #GhostsoftheFarm! It’s been a lifetime’s companionable & instructional haunting, & I’m thrilled to bring these women from out the shadows, honour them & raise & address my own rural ghosts. Love & thanks to @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social & my early readers too x

“It was Laura Dahlmeier’s express and written will that in a case like this, no one should risk their life to recover her,” they said. “It was her wish to leave her body behind on the mountain in this case. This is also in line with the wishes of her relatives.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

How is taking books without authors' consent or payment "fair use"? www.ft.com/content/6f28...

The existential cost of Israel's war on Gaza is staggering. Not just all the souls lost in Gaza, but plants, animals, people, glaciers and livelihoods around the world. It must end now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

💰In 2006, average author earnings were £12,330. In 2022, that had fallen to £7,000, a drop of 60% when adjusted for inflation. 💪🏼 Joining the Society of Authors is one way you can push for change to ensure being an author is open to all, not just a privileged few. [2]

The swallows are back & today heard the first cuckoo singing among the skylarks on the commons of mid Wales. Happy easter!

On the 3 April we’re organising a day of protest against Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More information on how to get involved 👇 societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...

I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the @authorsguild.bsky.social letter template to send your own: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AI Copyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A beautiful day on the Cairngorm plateau.

My book - lovingly crafted over 2 years - is one of the stolen millions, taken by Meta to train their AI model. Did they ask my permission? No. Have they paid me? No. Can anyone advise how you can recall, reclaim and protect your work from the pirated database?

"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment buff.ly/f7H5UuR

Ben Venue and Loch Katrine at the weekend. Cold and bright with signs of spring ✨️

Contemplating the lake, saying goodbye to Pokhara after an eventful month of field research with Nepali mountain women. So much to reflect on, many astonishing insights and nature-rich experiences in the Himalaya. Soon to turn the pen & capture this world for its brief brilliant moment

Meanwhile here in Nepal, the rhodedenron is coming into bloom. Red flowers are scattered like kisses along the Himalayan forest path

"How can we make a world? If it is ours to dismantle, it is ours to make." Kathleen Jamie, Cairn. Haunted by these meditations on who we are and where we've got to and what the way ahead might be

It is with great sadness to hear that the great Tim Radford has died. He was, unequivocally, the best science journalist, and a kind and generous man. I used his Manifesto for the Simple Scribe in lectures for student this very week. It’s faultless. www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Fabulous spread in The Great Outdoors Magazine, featuring my photos and article about the Cholita Climbers of Bolivia. It was amazing to meet these women and grasp their remarkable story of change and empowerment through the mountains.

Sending love to all today after the horrors of the scenes from US power. I recommend this as antidote. Get together, connect, support 💚

Just filed the self-assessment tax return. Highly recommended for brightening up blue Monday....

In my Shadows & Reflections for Caught by the River, I write about grief and high-altitude climbing, charting the wild inner & outer landscapes. The piece is a tribute to my friend Rebecca Collins who died very suddenly last year. www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/01/shad...

Putting the cat among the pigeons. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ecstatic ascent and despair in the valley: @annamfleming.bsky.social‬ reflects on a year of grief in the mountains https://buff.ly/4j5ARRb

Mid-Wales in mid winter. A day of sunshine and snow showers, with changing light and glorious skies.

A drippy misty snow day in mid Wales with fingers of ice forming around twigs, figs and lichens. Love this enchanting weird weathered nature

Reading the excellent Other Everests by @jonwestaway.bsky.social & others. A fantastic & much-needed critical re-evaluation of Everest/Chomolungma, with gender and decolonisation at its core.

One week to go until my Research for Writers course starts. Still time to sign up if you want to learn how to yoke research skills and story telling. Link here👇🏼 kerriandrews.co.uk/product/rese...

In the latest issue of The Great Outdoors magazine, I wrote about climbing with my heroes, the revolutionary Cholita Climbers in Bolivia. www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...