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• It’s one hundred years ago this week that Mallory and Irvine disappeared on Everest. It makes me both sad and admiring whenever I think about this expedition.
  The shadow of WW1 hung over everything (fabulous book recommendation – Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest), so there was fatalism, sadness, but also hope for a new future. Did they make it to the top? I doubt it. I hope so. But I also don’t think it matters that much if they summited, because they didn’t get down and home again which is always the main aim of an expedition. And that’s the sad part. Here’s an interesting article about the Unending Allure Of High Mountains.
• Man or Bear? An interesting / troubling piece about bikepacking as a lone woman.
• The European Green Belt: a great environmental idea, and a really fabulous route for a summer bike journey. (If you can do it in less than 90 days, of course! ???)
• Microadventures, the book, has just turned 10 years old. Here’s Everything You Ever Needed to Know to plan your own microadventure, in one handy PDF. (And a load of microadventures FAQs.)
• Sign up for my new newsletter where adventure meets purpose. Ponderings on issues like rewilding, responsible roaming, and rivers.
• I’ve updated my list of Good Books I Have Read Recently.
• The Smoke Ring Challenge is a self-supported bikepacking adventure around London. I’d love to see similar routes mapped around more cities. If you know any other examples, please link to them here.
• Wilding is a fabulous book. It’s now being released as a movie!
• Photographer Andrew Haggar has spent many years exploring a single square kilometre around his home.
• Depressing before/after views of melting glaciers.
• Random but lovely: these sculptures and these underwater sculptures.

(I’m going to start sharing my most recent films, for those of you who don’t follow YouTube.)

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Alastair