Everyman adventurer | Local explorer | Dad | Nemophilist | FRGS | DRD4-7R #dadventure #ArmedForces #Archaeology 🧭
England, United Kingdom
Joined June 2014
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“Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.”
- Patrick Henry
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Beautiful sunrise in the Lakes this morning. @lakedistrictnpa #LakeDistrict
A new exhibition highlights the nation's first known mountain climb for recreational purposes which took place on Pillar Rock in the Lake District in 1826, according to the display's curator Ian Smith. 🏔️
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
#RemembranceDay
True courage & bravery.
He lost both legs serving Britain. Then he conquered Everest.
In 2010, Gurkha veteran Hari Budha Magar lost both legs above the knee after stepping on a bomb in Afghanistan.
He battled depression, rebuilt his life and refused to give up on his dream.
After years of training, specially designed prosthetics and a fight to overturn a climbing ban, he made history.
🏔️ On 19 May 2023, he became the first double above-knee amputee to summit Mount Everest.
His words at the top? “We did it!”
A remarkable story of courage, resilience and the power of never giving up.
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“Second World War military strategist Brigadier Dudley Clarke, who was arrested undercover dressed as a woman and helped inspire the name for the SAS, has been honoured with a blue plaque.
The Army officer, who was a key figure in British intelligence in the Middle East during the war, was recognised by English Heritage for his work devising “ingenious schemes” to mislead the Nazis.”
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A new study exploring the origins of the six tonne Altar Stone at Stonehenge has ruled out a theory that it came from an area of Scotland.
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“Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, nineteenth-century Gothic churches and the music of Elgar.”
T.S. Eliot
British adventurer Karl Bushby crossed the Humber Bridge through thick mist on the final leg of his 31,000-mile (49,890 km), 28-year trek from South America to Hull. #adventure 🌍
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Soulless… in a good way. 🏔️
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With his journey almost complete, Karl Bushby reflects on adventures that have taken him across four continents, as well as strained relationships and how life as he knows it is about to change dramatically.
#travel #adventure
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