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07 Jul 2021

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic Posted in Everest Stories, Science & Exploration Permalink

An interview with Alpine Club president Victor Saunders

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic On July 7, 2021

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In this interview we spoke to Victor about his well established career as a mountaineer, Everest guide and more.

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17 May 2021

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic Posted in Everest Stories, Science & Exploration Permalink

The Hunt for Mount Everest – interview with Craig Storti

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic On May 17, 2021

Craig Storti is the author of the newly released book ‘The Hunt for Mount Everest’, which explores the history of the mountain before the 1920s and the first ascent. We spoke to Craig to find out more about him and his book.

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12 Apr 2021

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic Posted in Mountain Science, Science & Exploration Permalink

An interview with mountain medicine doctor Jeremy Windsor

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic On April 12, 2021

In this interview, we spoke to Jeremy Windsor, a climber, mountain medicine doctor, and Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

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04 Mar 2021

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic Posted in Mountain Science, Science & Exploration Permalink

An interview with climber Tom Livingstone

Sticky Post By Evelina Satkevic On March 4, 2021

In this interview, we spoke to climber and writer Tom Livingstone, about his career in climbing and the Young Alpinist Group initiative. 

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02 Feb 2021

Sticky Post By Melanie Windridge Posted in Aurora Stories, Northern Lights Permalink

Northern lights in art with Nicholas Jones

Sticky Post By Melanie Windridge On February 2, 2021

Nicholas Jones and I met in 2017 when he invited me to the exhibition of his new Aurora paintings at the Crane Kalman Gallery in London. He had seen my book Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights and realised that we had a shared passion—the Arctic, the light and the aurora.

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05 Jan 2021

Sticky Post By Melanie Windridge Posted in Everest Stories, Science & Exploration Permalink

Just keep walking

Sticky Post By Melanie Windridge On January 5, 2021

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On the morning of my second surgery, the day after I had found out that the retina had come away again, I couldn’t help thinking about the ladders on Everest and how I had no choice but to do something that frightened me over and over again.

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07 Dec 2020

Sticky Post By Melanie Windridge Posted in Science & Exploration Permalink

Star Chambers: The Race for Fusion Power – fusion 10 years on

Sticky Post By Melanie Windridge On December 7, 2020

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Earlier this year, I re-released my fusion book, Star Chambers: The Race for Fusion Power, as a 2020 edition with a ten-year update chapter.

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