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Igloo-building, pine needle soup and some seriously high-stakes fire building – Anna Richards heads to the Swiss Jura mountains for a course on extreme cold survival

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Daniel Pembrey picks out his top travel books of 2025

COLD turkey wasn’t at all photogenic, Liam thought in dismay. And yet photos of cold turkey were going to be all he would be able to post on his social media this year again, while his friends shared

The 1962 freeze, spies, murder and golf–here are four novels to absorb as we wait for the days to lengthen