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The tip of the Spanish mainland at Tarifa is among David s favourite wild places in the world IN the beginning they existed only in my boyhood imagination. I was always the dreamer back then and in my mind’s eye I could see them but not yet reach out and touch them. Snowy mountains like citadels, parched undulating deserts, windswept seas and skies full of stars, always the stars, these were the landscapes of those early dreams. Who really knows where our love of wild, untamed and elemental places comes from? Books, especially those filled with tales of derring-do were the kindling for my fiery imagination. On opening them it was as if a gateway had appeared and my own adventures could begin alongside those larger-than-life explorers, mountaineers, sailors and aviators that inhabited their pages.
Inside Jimmy Savile s filthy and derelict Highland home as urban explorer shares images
The Glencoe lair once owned by the predator TV presenter lies in ruin and strewn with debris a decade on from his death.
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Sir Jimmy Savile at his home in Glencoe
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When you have become the first and only Briton to climb through the death zone to reach the world’s 14 highest peaks there is only one thing left to do – move to the Lake District. On any chosen day, if you monitor the Instagram account of veteran climber Alan Hinkes, you will find him on top of a mountain somewhere in Cumbria, or climbing a frozen waterfall, ice axes in hand crampons on his rigid climbing boots. At 65 there is little sign of the outdoor expert slowing down, but then after more than 50 years in the wilds of the world it is very much his norm.
When you have become the first and only Briton to climb through the death zone to reach the world’s 14 highest peaks there is only one thing left to do – move to the Lake District. On any chosen day, if you monitor the Instagram account of veteran climber Alan Hinkes, you will find him on top of a mountain somewhere in Cumbria, or climbing a frozen waterfall, ice axes in hand crampons on his rigid climbing boots. At 65 there is little sign of the outdoor expert slowing down, but then after more than 50 years in the wilds of the world it is very much his norm.