Stories from winners of The Next Challenge Grant and my own adventures…
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Scenes from “Atlas Ice” from Andrew Stokes-Rees on Vimeo. My friend Andy has just had a piece accepted by the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival. His film, “Atlas Ice” shows two climbs on snow and ice in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.…
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Women can’t run marathons – Part III
This women-running-marathons-thing was only supposed to be a brief entry but when I started writing about it I found myself feeling quite strongly about the implications so here is a third instalment: Raise your hand if you have ever completed…
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What is this website about?
Hopping between boulders on a sunny day in the arctic, I was extolling the virtues of my website to a friend when she asked me: “What is it about?” “Well, it’s… err… challanges… um… expeditions…” …was about all I could…
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Women can’t run marathons – Part II
This women-running-marathons-thing was only supposed to be a brief entry but when I started writing about it I found myself feeling quite strongly about the implications so here is a second instalment: In the TV show Daredevils last week, an…
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Coast-to-Coast photos
Here are some snaps from the triathlon I supported last month: If the window above doesn’t work then have a look here instead.
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Next Challenge News, September 2009
Each month I write a short newsletter. You can read this month’s below, past issues here and subscribe by emailing me: [issuu viewmode=presentation layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml backgroundcolor=FFFFFF showflipbtn=true autoflip=true autofliptime=6000 documentid=091009095334-b8e49128f5d14fa4b42421f1fdeb6bba docname=0909ncn username=NextChallenge loadinginfotext=Next%20Challenge%20News%2C%20September%202009 width=420 height=594 unit=px]
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Six of the best
At the end of each month, I will be listing six blog entries from other peoples’ websites that I have enjoyed and think that you might too: Welcome – Michael Halls-Moore 8 Tiny Ways in which I’m improving my life…
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Women can’t run marathons – Part I
Did you know that there was no women’s marathon in the Olympic Games until 1984? The men’s event, in contrast, was part of the inaugural “modern Olympics” in 1896. Women had, of course, run marathons before that but not without…
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Mountains and Mole Hills
My legs are pistons, firing repeatedly in a hypnotic cadence, a relentless machine hell bent on speed. Churning the big cog over and over, I’m flying through London at a dangerous rate of knots. The low sunlight reflects off a…
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Things to do before Christmas
As we enter the final quarter of the year, have you given any thought to what you want to achieve before its end? Here’s my list: Get an article published Write up my ‘Cycling Home from Norway‘ trip Upload all…
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Do you find Newton Faulkner attractive?
I knew nothing about about Newton Faulkner other than that he was a singer/songwriter. I loaded up his album, Hand Built By Robots, on Spotify and thought it was great so, last night, I asked my friends if they’d heard…
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Life, true life
“It was during that performance of Rigoletto that opera imprinted itself on Katsumi Hosokawa, a message written on the pink undersides of his eyelids that he read to himself while he slept. Many years later, when everything was business, when…
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