Richard T Rogers
richardtrogers.bsky.social
Richard T Rogers
@richardtrogers.bsky.social
Writer, editor, mountaineer, sailor. PBO, UKC/H. Rebuilding a small yacht for voyages to mountainous coasts. Book coming.
Well. So. By way of explanation, I live in the far north west of Scotland, but for reasons too convoluted to explain I regularly travel to Essex to work on my boat. Stopped off at Barnard Castle today 👇 (Old gag alert.)
June 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Could life get any more glamorous than this? (You really don’t want a pic of me in my oilies.)
The late, legendary French seaman, Eric Tabarly, takes Brigitte Bardot (and Alain Delon, not pictured) sailing off St. Tropez aboard his aluminium-hulled ketch Pen Duick III, in August, 1968.

Photo by Jean-Pierre Bonnotte.
June 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Indeed it does.
This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...
committees.parliament.uk
June 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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INCREDIBLE !!

Here we are... 😱😱😱

After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...

Devastating! 😭

www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I could not be more dismayed at this. For Christ’s sake. It’s a bloody brick! There is no reason for not legislating. This says a lot. The only possible explanation here is profit. Profit, however small, comes before all else. Please email your MPs (see @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social‘s post.
Breaking news!The government has just voted against the same swift brick amendment they voted for 2 years ago. We can only save our swifts if we all act. Email your MP. Ask them to sign edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... MEET your MP. Tell them how much this matters or we’ll lose them
May 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The Cuillin yesterday. With blue.
May 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
‘Kite-skiing.’ 90-170km per day!
A bumper Arctic roundup this week. Sled expeditions remain underway on Canada’s Ellesmere Island and in the Northwest Passage, while other journeys have recently concluded in Siberia, Iceland, and on Baffin Island.

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Arctic Roundup: Passing Magnetic North, Deep Snow, and Siberian Cold » Explorersweb
Sled expeditions continue on Ellesmere Island and in the Northwest Passage, while other journeys have ended in Siberia, Iceland, and on Baffin Island.
explorersweb.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
From Cul Mor. Suilven and water.
May 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
‘Choose time over money, since you can always make more money.’
May 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Not so long ago, near Loch Quoich. They were definitely off somewhere, but weren’t about to explain.
May 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This, seen out walking in North Yorkshire limestone country, is an entrance to a cave system. All a bit mad if you ask me. But I’m claustrophobic.
May 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Knitting in Ripon, North Yorkshire today. (Yeah, yeah, I know, a bit random. But a lovely surprise all the same.)
May 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Near Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire. Reminds me of the heathlands of Surrey around where I grew up. But with rocks.
May 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
On the way home to Scotland from the south of England we diverted to Nidderdale to see a friend yesterday. Decades since I walked remote Yorkshire. It’s a lot more wealthy than it was. And just as gorgeous.
May 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Crikey. I mean, well…crikey!
April 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Camasunary bothy a few years ago, before the new one was built just along the beach. My mate and I slept for thirty-six hours through a storm. The only other guests were half a dozen Scooby Doo fans.
April 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Glen Coe just over a year ago. A sudden snowfall overnight, and a still day with sunshine. The last time I’d been that way was 34 years before.
April 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
From last summer. The dawn chasing our sailing boat westwards off the south coast of England.
April 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Zero-G teddy!
Great to see this interview with Eric Philips out there. A veteran polar guide, Eric recently swapped his sled for a seat on a Falcon 9, where earlier this month, his team became the first to orbit Earth passing over both the North and South Poles.

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Astronaut Eric Philips on the Joy of Being in Outer Space » Explorersweb
Eric Philips speaks to ExplorersWeb about his three and a half days orbiting the Earth, including how they slept and what microgravity feels like.
explorersweb.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Summit Camping and Paragliding from Scotlands most photogenic mountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_V2...
Summit Camping and Paragliding from Scotlands most photogenic mountain
Suilven - the jewel of Northwest Scotland - is an iconic and shapely mountain, and one of my favourite objects to photograph. This video covers a photo trip ...
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April 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Destructive Lake District 'fly campers' face fines - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Destructive Lake District 'fly campers' face fines - BBC News
Cumberland Council to use Public Space Protection Orders against anti-social Lake District campers.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
From an era of truly great British mountaineers.
In an account first published in Mountain Magazine in 1991, Robert Durran and the late Brendan Murphy - one of the most gifted mountaineers of his generation - endure a gruelling ordeal on the Eiger's '38 route.
ESSAY: Five Days on the Eigerwand
In an account first published in Mountain Magazine in 1991, Robert Durran and the late Brendan Murphy - one of the most gifted mountaineers of his generation - endure a gruelling ordeal on the...
www.ukclimbing.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Lovely article. And a point well made.
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A World Tour of Yorkshire
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April 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM