Graham Uney
@grahamuney.bsky.social
A professional mountaineer. Also noodles with guitars, walks dogs, drinks red wine, real ale and single malt whisky, and sees wildlife.
Writes to keep the wolf from the door.
Owner of www.grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk.
Lives in the Lake District
Writes to keep the wolf from the door.
Owner of www.grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk.
Lives in the Lake District
In spring I'll be posting lots of photos from the Manaslu Circuit in Nepal.
"When are you going again?" you'll ask. Well, our spring 2026 trek is a one-time only trek. This is your one and only chance to join us!
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"When are you going again?" you'll ask. Well, our spring 2026 trek is a one-time only trek. This is your one and only chance to join us!
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/nepal-trek-m...
Nepal Trek The Manaslu Circuit — Graham Uney Mountaineering
Trekking in Nepal. Trek the Manaslu Circuit. Guided by Graham Uney Mountaineering and Sherpa Khumbiyila Adventures
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December 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
In spring I'll be posting lots of photos from the Manaslu Circuit in Nepal.
"When are you going again?" you'll ask. Well, our spring 2026 trek is a one-time only trek. This is your one and only chance to join us!
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/nepal-trek-m...
"When are you going again?" you'll ask. Well, our spring 2026 trek is a one-time only trek. This is your one and only chance to join us!
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/nepal-trek-m...
It's always a delight to visit the tiny island of Kerrera. Lots of wildlife today, including two white-tailed eagles, a golden eagle, three great northern divers, and an otter. Oh, and if you've never been it's also a stunning place, with an exciting castle, and some interesting geology too
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It's always a delight to visit the tiny island of Kerrera. Lots of wildlife today, including two white-tailed eagles, a golden eagle, three great northern divers, and an otter. Oh, and if you've never been it's also a stunning place, with an exciting castle, and some interesting geology too
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1/ Can you help us count Bewick's and Whooper Swans for the International Swan Census on 17-18 January 2026? 🦢
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
1/ Can you help us count Bewick's and Whooper Swans for the International Swan Census on 17-18 January 2026? 🦢
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
Visit the vacant site map to request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/pub...
#Ornithology @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
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Spend spring where migration happens 🌿
We’re looking for Residential Spring Volunteers to live & work at Spurn in 2026.
Accommodation + expenses provided.
Know someone perfect? Please share!
Apply 👉 forms.gle/9u4X65F4Vn5M...
More info ▶️ spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/were-re...
We’re looking for Residential Spring Volunteers to live & work at Spurn in 2026.
Accommodation + expenses provided.
Know someone perfect? Please share!
Apply 👉 forms.gle/9u4X65F4Vn5M...
More info ▶️ spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/were-re...
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Spend spring where migration happens 🌿
We’re looking for Residential Spring Volunteers to live & work at Spurn in 2026.
Accommodation + expenses provided.
Know someone perfect? Please share!
Apply 👉 forms.gle/9u4X65F4Vn5M...
More info ▶️ spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/were-re...
We’re looking for Residential Spring Volunteers to live & work at Spurn in 2026.
Accommodation + expenses provided.
Know someone perfect? Please share!
Apply 👉 forms.gle/9u4X65F4Vn5M...
More info ▶️ spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/were-re...
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Not a single like for that one. Pearls before swine.
Gtradio bonus advent calendar day twenty two and a half, two sleeps til Christmas Eve
youtu.be/ocFVPlAVyU8?...
Gtradio bonus advent calendar day twenty two and a half, two sleeps til Christmas Eve
youtu.be/ocFVPlAVyU8?...
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not a single like for that one. Pearls before swine.
Gtradio bonus advent calendar day twenty two and a half, two sleeps til Christmas Eve
youtu.be/ocFVPlAVyU8?...
Gtradio bonus advent calendar day twenty two and a half, two sleeps til Christmas Eve
youtu.be/ocFVPlAVyU8?...
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We need to ensure Labour actually follow through for animals. It’s all very well promising change but we need action.
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We need to ensure Labour actually follow through for animals. It’s all very well promising change but we need action.
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This video from @beavertrust.bsky.social shows how beavers can help insects and #bats 🦇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3j...
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This video from @beavertrust.bsky.social shows how beavers can help insects and #bats 🦇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3j...
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More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales.
Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area.
Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social
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Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area.
Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...
More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales
Further to the news on Thursday (here) that three White-tailed Eagles have ‘disappeared’ in suspicious circumstances, one in England, one in Wales and one in Scotland, Dyfed-Powys Police has issued…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales.
Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area.
Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...
Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area.
Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...
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𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔
For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.
For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔
For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.
For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.
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We’re delighted to have raised nearly £27,000 towards our beaver appeal. A big thank you to everyone who has donated so far!
Please continue to donate. Every additional donation will help us protect Craddocks Moss and other precious habitats: https://orlo.uk/BUKlm
Please continue to donate. Every additional donation will help us protect Craddocks Moss and other precious habitats: https://orlo.uk/BUKlm
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We’re delighted to have raised nearly £27,000 towards our beaver appeal. A big thank you to everyone who has donated so far!
Please continue to donate. Every additional donation will help us protect Craddocks Moss and other precious habitats: https://orlo.uk/BUKlm
Please continue to donate. Every additional donation will help us protect Craddocks Moss and other precious habitats: https://orlo.uk/BUKlm
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We desperately need some convictions for these crimes - not just those killing the birds, but those who are paying them to do it.
The shooting estates refuse to clean up their act. It's time to make them.
The shooting estates refuse to clean up their act. It's time to make them.
FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three.
New blog ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
New blog ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction
Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We desperately need some convictions for these crimes - not just those killing the birds, but those who are paying them to do it.
The shooting estates refuse to clean up their act. It's time to make them.
The shooting estates refuse to clean up their act. It's time to make them.
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Good. A step in the right direction and long overdue
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Exclusive: Ministers also expected to announce trail-hunting ban in sweeping changes to animal welfare law
Shooting hares in England will be banned for most of the year as part of sweeping changes to animal welfare law.
At the moment, it is legal to shoot the animals during their breeding season, with pregnant hares left to bleed out, and leverets – their young – often orphaned as a result. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Good. A step in the right direction and long overdue
Our most recent Hill and Moorland Leader training course. This one was run in the Kirkby Stephen area, including days out on Wild Boar Fell, Great Asby Scar, and in the Howgill Fells.
Here's our Hill and Moorland Leader training course dates in 2026?
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Here's our Hill and Moorland Leader training course dates in 2026?
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/hill-moorlan...
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Our most recent Hill and Moorland Leader training course. This one was run in the Kirkby Stephen area, including days out on Wild Boar Fell, Great Asby Scar, and in the Howgill Fells.
Here's our Hill and Moorland Leader training course dates in 2026?
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/hill-moorlan...
Here's our Hill and Moorland Leader training course dates in 2026?
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/hill-moorlan...
Some absolutely glorious shafts of sunlight filtering through the trees at Whinlatter - Forestry England this morning.
#lakedistrict #forests
#lakedistrict #forests
December 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Some absolutely glorious shafts of sunlight filtering through the trees at Whinlatter - Forestry England this morning.
#lakedistrict #forests
#lakedistrict #forests
And then more temperature inversions at home with cloud filling the trough where Haweswater lies.
#lakedistrict #lovewhereyoulive
#lakedistrict #lovewhereyoulive
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And then more temperature inversions at home with cloud filling the trough where Haweswater lies.
#lakedistrict #lovewhereyoulive
#lakedistrict #lovewhereyoulive
What do two outdoor instructors do on a lazy day off work? Go play in the forest on a permanent orienteering course, of course!
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What do two outdoor instructors do on a lazy day off work? Go play in the forest on a permanent orienteering course, of course!
Mists rising out of Whinlatter - Forestry England today, with Grisedale Pike enjoying the full sun above the inversion.
December 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Mists rising out of Whinlatter - Forestry England today, with Grisedale Pike enjoying the full sun above the inversion.
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Figured I would blog about my unexpectedly long journey to Mountain Leader.
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Pictures borrowed from @grahamuney.bsky.social since I was far too busy stressing to take any myself.
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Pictures borrowed from @grahamuney.bsky.social since I was far too busy stressing to take any myself.
Ending a Seven Year Journey
A Simple Question
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December 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Figured I would blog about my unexpectedly long journey to Mountain Leader.
munromicroadventures.substack.com/p/ending-a-s...
Pictures borrowed from @grahamuney.bsky.social since I was far too busy stressing to take any myself.
munromicroadventures.substack.com/p/ending-a-s...
Pictures borrowed from @grahamuney.bsky.social since I was far too busy stressing to take any myself.
December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Old haunts. I've always loved being "on the moors". The North York Moors National Park was the first National Park I explored in my youth, so it was lovely to get back today for a walk at the Wainstones and Easby Moor with @sharonkennedy.bsky.social
@northyorkmoors.org.uk
@northyorkmoors.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Old haunts. I've always loved being "on the moors". The North York Moors National Park was the first National Park I explored in my youth, so it was lovely to get back today for a walk at the Wainstones and Easby Moor with @sharonkennedy.bsky.social
@northyorkmoors.org.uk
@northyorkmoors.org.uk
A glorious early winter day on the Wythop Fells with long-term client and friend Richard.
#walking #hiking #lakedistrict #walkingthewainwrights #wainwrights
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#walking #hiking #lakedistrict #walkingthewainwrights #wainwrights
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December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A glorious early winter day on the Wythop Fells with long-term client and friend Richard.
#walking #hiking #lakedistrict #walkingthewainwrights #wainwrights
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#walking #hiking #lakedistrict #walkingthewainwrights #wainwrights
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Wonderful and wet today for day one of our Walking the Wainwrights weekend based in Keswick. It's fair to say not all walking holidays are created equal!
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#wainwrights #walkingthewainwrights #lakedistrict #hiking
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#wainwrights #walkingthewainwrights #lakedistrict #hiking
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Wonderful and wet today for day one of our Walking the Wainwrights weekend based in Keswick. It's fair to say not all walking holidays are created equal!
grahamuneymountaineering.co.uk/walking-the-...
#wainwrights #walkingthewainwrights #lakedistrict #hiking
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#wainwrights #walkingthewainwrights #lakedistrict #hiking
Above Sunbiggin Tarn at Middle Busk.
December 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Above Sunbiggin Tarn at Middle Busk.
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The National Trust's latest seabird census on the Farne Islands has revealed a mixed picture for one of Britain's most important seabird colonies:
Farne Islands seabird census paints mixed picture
The annual Farne Islands seabird survey shows a 23% decline in Puffin pairs but a strong increase in Arctic Terns, according to the National Trust.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The National Trust's latest seabird census on the Farne Islands has revealed a mixed picture for one of Britain's most important seabird colonies:
Rutter Force t'other day.
December 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Rutter Force t'other day.