Andrew Blowers leading Randy’s Wall VS 5a, Gun Buttress, Bamford Edge, Peak District.
Randy’s Wall 13m Vs 5a.
“From the left hand corner of the buttress climb up to a square roof, then move up and right to runners and a rest (not on the runners!) in the centre of the wall. Finish direct.”
1989 Stanage Guidebook.
Gruntdoc has reminded me of something I put up here last year.
The Twelve Sexually Transmitted Infections of Christmas.
Enjoy.
Professors at the Florida State University College of Medicine are threatening to resign over the issue of pseudo-science creeping into the University – in the form of a Chiropractic school. They are circulating the following map.
All they need is an orangutan librarian, and a Chair of Indefinite Studies and they’ll be competing with this famous [...]
These are a a pair of photographs from a solo winter walk in the Lake District in 1992, looking towards Bowfell and Crinkle Crags. I’ve just got hold of a slide scanner, at last, and these are two photographs I was quite proud of getting with my SLR at the time.
They capture the feeling [...]
Our understanding of the landscape of the universe was forever changed by the publication of some scientific papers by a Swiss patent clerk in 1905. As the anniversary of this approaches, Jeremy Laurance gives a brief guide to the man and his ideas.
The Disasters Emergency Committee of Great Britain co-ordinates the fund-raising of a number of UK charities (Oxfam, World Visions, Save the Children, Merlin, Help the Aged, Concern, Christian Aid, Care, Cafod, British Red Cross and Action Aid) in cases of extreme emergencies, which require more help than any one charity can provide alone.
They are currently [...]
Bowfell, in the Langdale Valley.
(Taken winter 1991 on solo walking trip).
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all Black Triangle’s readers.
There is no truth in the belief – based on anecdotal evidence – that cancer patients can delay their death for important events, a US study suggests.
An Ohio State University team looked at 300,000 cancer deaths over 12 years.
They found no evidence of unusual death rate patterns near birthdays, Christmas and Thanksgiving, they told the [...]
If you think medicine is defensive now, spare a thought for the surgeons of Babylonian. According to the Code of Hammurabi:
. If a physician make a large incision with an operating knife and cure it, or if he open a tumor (over the eye) with an operating knife, and saves the eye, he shall receive [...]