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The Iceman Cometh

Sometimes I have been asked, ‘Which was your best adventure?’ Apart from a flippant reply, ‘The day I married my wife’, it is almost impossible to select one as the best; I have been privileged to enjoy so many, both climbing and sailing. As I said at the Banff Mountain Festival in

Canada one year, ‘God has given me a wonderful life’. Not sure what they made of that; and I am not sure what you will make of these either….

So apart from the thrill of pioneering new previously unclimbed rock climbs at Portland and on the Ormes

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