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
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.)
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.
Photo by Jean-Pierre Bonnotte.
June 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Could life get any more glamorous than this? (You really don’t want a pic of me in my oilies.)
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
Indeed it does.
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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
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.
Should never have needed to go to court. www.ukhillwalking.com/news/2025/05...
NEWSFLASH: Legal Right to Wild Camp on Dartmoor Upheld by Supreme Court
In a landmark case, the Supreme Court has upheld the legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor, thus ensuring the continuation of a tradition unique to the area, whereby wild camping is allowed.
www.ukhillwalking.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Should never have needed to go to court. www.ukhillwalking.com/news/2025/05...
The Cuillin yesterday. With blue.
May 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Cuillin yesterday. With blue.
‘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.
explorersweb.com/arctic-round...
explorersweb.com/arctic-round...
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
‘Kite-skiing.’ 90-170km per day!
From Cul Mor. Suilven and water.
May 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
From Cul Mor. Suilven and water.
‘Choose time over money, since you can always make more money.’
Life is too short to be busy. web.archive.org/web/20190301...
Lazy: A Manifesto
By Tim Kreider
web.archive.org
May 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
‘Choose time over money, since you can always make more money.’
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
Not so long ago, near Loch Quoich. They were definitely off somewhere, but weren’t about to explain.
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
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.
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
Knitting in Ripon, North Yorkshire today. (Yeah, yeah, I know, a bit random. But a lovely surprise all the same.)
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
Near Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire. Reminds me of the heathlands of Surrey around where I grew up. But with rocks.
A wee cheer for our cousins down under. apple.news/An0JuVA3ETJa...
Australia re-elects Anthony Albanese as Labor rides anti-Trump wave to seal crushing win — The Guardian
Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat
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May 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A wee cheer for our cousins down under. apple.news/An0JuVA3ETJa...
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
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.
Crikey. I mean, well…crikey!
Karl Bushby Begins Home Stretch of 27-Year, Round-the-World Walk
Karl Bushby Begins Home Stretch of 27-Year, Round-the-World Walk » Explorersweb
Beginning in 1998, Bushby has trekked 47,000km across 25 countries, six deserts, and seven mountain ranges. Now he is starting his final year on the road.
explorersweb.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Crikey. I mean, well…crikey!
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
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.
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
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.
From last summer. The dawn chasing our sailing boat westwards off the south coast of England.
April 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
From last summer. The dawn chasing our sailing boat westwards off the south coast of England.
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.
explorersweb.com/astronaut-er...
explorersweb.com/astronaut-er...
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
Zero-G teddy!
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Summit Camping and Paragliding from Scotlands most photogenic mountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_V2...
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
Summit Camping and Paragliding from Scotlands most photogenic mountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_V2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_V2...
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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
Destructive Lake District 'fly campers' face fines - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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
From an era of truly great British mountaineers.
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
Lovely article. And a point well made.
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