This everest season shows we must meet mountains without ego

Sometimes, whether down to judgement or pure bad luck, things go wrong. We gathered a team of experts and asked them to tell us about a time the proverbial hit the fan – and how they escaped.

As an occultist, novelist, painter, poet and magician, Aleister Crowley was notorious as a master of the dark arts. He’s less well known for his short but pioneering climbing career.

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After a decade of soggy socks, bashed up pork pies, and making polite conversation with the midgiebitten masses, here are the things Trail writer Fliss would banish to Hiking Room 101 faster than you can say “lovely day for it” in the driving rain.

Some things are just funny, and when it comes to innuendo Wales has one mountain to rule them all: LORD HEREFORD’S KNOB . It seems rude not to spend a wild night on it.

PHOTOGRAPHER KAROLINA WIERCIGROCH RECALLS THE THRILL OF TRAVELLING THROUGH BHUTAN FOR OUR SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE