Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably). No longer active here.
London & Cotswolds
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Fancy a Friday night in? Then why not download my brand new book, hot off the [hard drives?] just this week 🔥 markhorrell.com/blog/2021/my…
More on the Mallory & Irvine mystery by @calmandfearless in The Guardian today on the centenary of their deaths - there is now a rumour that Mallory's body has gone missing too
theguardian.com/world/articl… #Everest
‘I am not a typo’ campaign calls on tech firms to fix the issue of wrongly autocorrected names theguardian.com/technology/a… Jeremy Hunt is believed to be a high profile supporter
This is mind-boggling 🤯
NASA has re-established contact with Voyager 1 which was launched in 1977 with 70Kb of memory and is now outside the solar system theguardian.com/science/2024…
They couldn't fix a broken chip (obviously), so they "remotely" transferred its code to a different chip.
That's some "remotely" 😮
It wasn't me. I prefer Double Gloucester 🧀 😳 southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2…
New post: Walking the Preseli Hills and Pembrokeshire Coast markhorrell.com/blog/2024/wa…
Cricket season starts and Gloucestershire's ground is still underwater. 🏏
There will be a lot of ducks this year.
theguardian.com/sport/2024/a…
New post - Dzo Jongo East and Dzo Jongo West: the videos 🎥 markhorrell.com/blog/2024/dz…
Interesting list here in Stephen Venables' book Painted Mountains - mountaineers who have dropped things...
At long last, a guidebook to cycling Scotland’s North Coast 500 🚲 🏴 markhorrell.com/blog/2024/at…
STOP PRESS: It turns out that the luxury of using helicopters to carry luxuries to Everest Base Camp instead of yaks is a luxury that outfitters can't do without explorersweb.com/everest-khu… 🚁 🐮
No jokes about singing bowls 🥣
Seriously though, at an altitude of 1,317m, are there any higher test cricket grounds than Dharamsala, and what are the chances of Mark Wood bowling at 100mph? 🏏
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New post - Ladakh’s Markha Valley Trek: the videos markhorrell.com/blog/2024/la… 📽️
Tired of the doom-scroll? This is how to find the kinder, more uplifting side of the internet theguardian.com/commentisfre…
New post: The 8 best books about #Everest written in the English language📚 markhorrell.com/blog/2024/th…
It's the #Everest silly announcement season again. In his post this year @alan_arnette has even included a handy chart of silly announcements over the years for media outlets to pick and mix for their next article alanarnette.com/blog/2024/02…
I can't believe ExWeb have fallen for this old chestnut.
Oh well, if they can polish an old turd, here's a version of this story I wrote in 2015, which I can assure you is much closer to the truth 🚽 markhorrell.com/blog/2015/br…
Beginning this year, climbers will have to bring their 💩 down from Everest.
explorersweb.com/poo-issue-e…
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'The chill of the mountain. The roar of rock music.' Ever Rest, finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards books2read.com/everrest #mountains #everest #audiobook
