Mark Horrell 🗻

Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably).

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Fancy a Friday night in? Then why not download my brand new book, hot off the [hard drives?] just this week 🔥 https://t.co/Jywxt5Hs4B

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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
https://t.co/uvOwZJHt7d #Everest

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‘I am not a typo’ campaign calls on tech firms to fix the issue of wrongly autocorrected names https://t.co/9vEUz3jlxa Jeremy Hunt is believed to be a high profile supporter

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@mickulus Full stop missing after the word "Mallory" 😉

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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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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 https://t.co/WTjyHmC3tG

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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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It wasn't me. I prefer Double Gloucester 🧀 😳 https://t.co/ftVsu7SQMe

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New post: Walking the Preseli Hills and Pembrokeshire Coast https://t.co/FsGu5XghHH

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Cricket season starts and Gloucestershire's ground is still underwater. 🏏

There will be a lot of ducks this year.

https://t.co/DzXeKf4MgT

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New post - Dzo Jongo East and Dzo Jongo West: the videos 🎥 https://t.co/yskO5w15sc

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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 🚲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://t.co/nVhS7WBWOB

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@TerribleMaps Is that Mordor in the middle? 😮👁️‍🗨️

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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 https://t.co/SGdLhw8fpQ 🚁 🐮

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@SimonCalder The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel and Mumford & Sons 🎶

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@jessphillips @MarinaPurkiss Did you mean to say massive cut?

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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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New post - Ladakh’s Markha Valley Trek: the videos https://t.co/dq0jA5Im4Q 📽️

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Tired of the doom-scroll? This is how to find the kinder, more uplifting side of the internet https://t.co/eeuykf52pk