John D Burns

I’m so excited – I’ve been benighted!

It finally happened, after over thirty years on the hills, an enforced bivi! I think I’m pushing back the frontiers of incompetence now. [...]

I took my primus stove for a walk last Sunday, the weather forecast having dramatically changed for the worse and ruling out the [...]

I’ve been reading a lot about the earliest attempts on Everest and particularly about George Mallory. I think it would make a great [...]

Last weekend I was alone in the Scottish mountains. At one point I was high on a narrow ridge of windblown snow with [...]

I wasn’t going to tell you about this but, after giving the matter some thought, I decided that, in the interests of [...]

Here, glorious full colour sound is my audio podcast about making soup on a primus stove. The outcome is, unintentionally funny but only [...]

Every now and again life just goes pear shaped. It happens on a fairly regular basis for me and I’ve no reason to [...]

Something very odd happened this weekend, the sales executive (Shop assistant) in my local climbing store persuaded me not to buy something. In [...]

I’ve been looking at a lot of geo-porn recently. In moments of weakness I’ve been fantasising about what it would be like to [...]