Mark Horrell 🗻
@markhorrell
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Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably). No longer active here.
London & Cotswolds
Joined October 2009
Fancy a Friday night in? Then why not download my brand new book, hot off the [hard drives?] just this week 🔥
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@calmandfearless (Note: Mallory's body was discovered on Everest in 1999. While there have been various theories about the location of Irvine's body and what has happened to it since, as far as I'm aware nothing has ever been confirmed.).
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More on the Mallory & Irvine mystery by @calmandfearless in The Guardian today on the centenary of their deaths - there is now a rumour that Mallory's body has gone missing too.#Everest.
theguardian.com
A hundred years ago, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to conquer the summit. Mallory’s body was later discovered, but now the remains of both are nowhere to be found. Who moved them?
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‘I am not a typo’ campaign calls on tech firms to fix the issue of wrongly autocorrected names Jeremy Hunt is believed to be a high profile supporter.
theguardian.com
‘I am not a typo’ campaign is calling for technology companies to make autocorrect less ‘western- and white-focused’
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Sadly, Voyager 1 is unlikely to be transmitting when it reaches its next star, in about 40,000 years time in the constellation of Ursa Minor 😢.
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They couldn't fix a broken chip (obviously), so they "remotely" transferred its code to a different chip. That's some "remotely" 😮.
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This is mind-boggling 🤯. NASA has re-established contact with Voyager 1 which was launched in 1977 with 70Kb of memory and is now outside the solar system
theguardian.com
Engineers spent months working to repair link with Earth’s most distant spacecraft, says space agency
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It wasn't me. I prefer Double Gloucester 🧀 😳
southwalesargus.co.uk
Man caught with £50,000 worth of drugs ‘was just looking after them’
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New post: Walking the Preseli Hills and Pembrokeshire Coast
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Cricket season starts and Gloucestershire's ground is still underwater. 🏏 . There will be a lot of ducks this year.
theguardian.com
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire are among the clubs fretting about their pitches as county cricket returns
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Interesting list here in Stephen Venables' book Painted Mountains - mountaineers who have dropped things.
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At long last, a guidebook to cycling Scotland’s North Coast 500 🚲 🏴
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STOP PRESS: It turns out that the luxury of using helicopters to carry luxuries to Everest Base Camp instead of yaks is a luxury that outfitters can't do without 🚁 🐮.
explorersweb.com
The new regulations on Everest have proven so troublesome that Khumbu authorities have had to walk back some of their preliminary decisions.
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No jokes about singing bowls 🥣. Seriously though, at an altitude of 1,317m, are there any higher test cricket grounds than Dharamsala, and what are the chances of Mark Wood bowling at 100mph? 🏏.
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Tired of the doom-scroll? This is how to find the kinder, more uplifting side of the internet
theguardian.com
It is easy to see the world in a pessimistic light, but by tapping into our innate generosity we have the power to change it, says Chris Anderson, the head of TED
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It's the #Everest silly announcement season again. In his post this year @alan_arnette has even included a handy chart of silly announcements over the years for media outlets to pick and mix for their next article
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I can't believe ExWeb have fallen for this old chestnut. Oh well, if they can polish an old turd, here's a version of this story I wrote in 2015, which I can assure you is much closer to the truth 🚽
Beginning this year, climbers will have to bring their 💩 down from Everest.
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RT @Roz_Morris: 'The chill of the mountain. The roar of rock music.' Ever Rest, finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards .
books2read.com
Ever Rest by Roz Morris
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