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Working in hostile and often unpredictable environments, mountaineer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin has no room for error. Here’s how he keeps his mind and body primed

From swimming to sailing, five women share the joy of blue spaces

Laura Crane, 30, from Devon, is the first British woman to surf Nazare’s 60ft waves in Portugal. But from navigating an eating disorder to recovering from sepsis, her journey has been far from straightforward

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

While photographing lifesavers, Benedict Brain stumbles into a new potential long-term project

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…