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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Simon Akam
AfghanistanBritish ArmyKeir StarmerThe Falklands WarUKUkraineWar On 31 March 1982 Henry Leach, the First Sea Lord and the professional head of the Royal Navy, walked into a meeting in the House of Commons in an admiral’s full uniform. Tension was rising over the Falkland Islands, and the room in Westminster was full of ministers and civil servants anxiously trying to formulate a response.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
beatlyzer.com | Simon Akam |Jessica Beck |Ellie Bury
More ways to listenApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyRSS FeedDownloadWritten by and publication by Joshua Manning. Produced by . The executive shaper was Fri 1 Mar 2024 00.00 ESTJérémie Heitz has pushed freeriding to breathtaking, beautiful caller extremes. But arsenic nan risks get bigger, nan questions do, too.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Simon Akam |Joshua Manning
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Simon Akam
The Combin de Valsorey is a rocky Alpine peak that stands nearly 4,200 metres above sea level near the Swiss-Italian border. Its north-west face rises 670 metres, at a gradient of about 50 degrees, steep enough that you can stand on the slope and touch the higher ground beside you without bending down. In May 2016, when Jérémie Heitz climbed the Combin for the first time, the north-west face of the mountain looked like a vertical curtain of white, fringed by bands of dark rock.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Simon Akam
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Simon Akam
One Thursday last March I emerged from the Jungfraujoch, Europe’s highest train station, and crossed into another world. Inside the station, a guide with a novelty Swiss flag was marshalling a party of Asian visitors. Outside, we were soon on the Jungfraufirn, a small glacier that feeds the Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps. Sunlight shone through breaks in the cloud, and the ice, flanked by buttresses of dark rock, ran south for miles.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Simon Akam
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Simon Akam
On a recent Thursday, after practice, Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu, a central midfielder for Luton Town Football Club, sat in the team’s “boot room,” opposite a kaleidoscope of brightly colored footwear hung on numbered racks. Mpanzu, who is twenty-nine, wore flip-flops over white socks and recalled the decision to come to Luton, nearly a decade before. “I’ll be honest—I didn’t want to go,” he said. His enormous quadriceps showed beneath rolled-up shorts.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
hatchards.co.uk | Simon Akam |Rachel Lloyd |Agatha Christie |Arthur Conan Doyle
'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing?
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
waterstones.com | Simon Akam |Rachel Lloyd
'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing?
