Simon Usborne

(Mainly at the other place now, same handle) Feature writer. Guardian, FT, Sunday Times, Telegraph etc

[Tom Wilson @thomas_m_wilson]

Reed Hastings is the only mogul in Utah’s Powder Mountain 😂

Great piece from @susborne in @ftweekend

https://t.co/aNAXSMcHHo The Netflix tycoon, his private resort — and the future of skiing

[ExplorersWeb @ExplorersWeb]

You Can Now Climb Everest in a Week Using Xenon Doping: The Implications https://t.co/obWCbLN0uY

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

This May, four Brits, including a government minister, plan to climb Everest in a week, including flights, with the help of a controversial Austrian guide and canisters of a rare noble gas. A little exclusive of mine in today’s @FinancialTimes https://t.co/Uqka6HPgMa

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

Wrote about historical consultants in film, who are often paid to be ignored. I’m told Ridley Scott has now banned them from set https://t.co/DkFliuQhOW

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

Immersed myself (several times on one very rough loch) in a growing niche: adventure standup paddleboarding. By way of a 60-mile SUP across Scotland. Here and in tomorrow's @ftweekend https://t.co/NQkvR2MEw5 ft @PrinceBrendon @RedPaddleCo @CalMajor_ https://t.co/NQkvR2MEw5

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

Hadn't clocked that this excellent doc is now on iPlayer (Storyville) https://t.co/dEHw0xlTdc

[Archie Bland @archiebland]

this is stunningly good, and stands as an exemplary "record of all that was lost".

[Tom Lamont @tomlamont]

I wrote a new longreAARRGGGHH!

All about rollercoaAARRGGGHH!

https://t.co/7RSxFmM1jd

With thanks to the ride creators and obsessives who contributed, also @ClareLongrigg for the idea and the edit

[Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone]

Fantastic piece about about the phenomenal Rebecca Roberts – the ultimate survivor and thriver. By @KiraCochrane
https://t.co/FHenSxD1CH

[Michael Hutchinson @Doctor_Hutch]

Chis has always been the most inspiring of athletes, the most inspiring of men. Generous with his time, experience and knowledge in a way that is verging on the unique. This seems so deeply unfair.

[Harry Yorke @HarryYorke1]

An incredibly sad story on the front page of The Sunday Times tomorrow.

Sir Chris Hoy, one of our greatest ever Olympians, reveals to @DeccaJourno that he has terminal cancer

https://t.co/iC18OpruEp

[Janice Turner @VictoriaPeckham]

I’m no Swiftie but this is a nonsense story. My @thetimes notebook

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

Treehouses are the current big trend in travel. I stayed in a posh one in the Cotswolds inspired, in part, by The Simpsons. https://t.co/nu64nbGiNj

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

Thinking of getting dental veneers? Think twice! The dark side of the Love Island smile: https://t.co/piGkau3waO

[Xan Brooks @XanBrooks]

My second novel, The Catchers, is out today. A dark tale for dark times that just happens to be set in 1920s America. Contains moonshine, mountain music, & human oddities. Step right up 🪕https://t.co/G94xSzRDAn

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

From this video. He’s dougaltaverner on insta

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

A drone shot of me descending an unnamed peak in Svalbard, as close to the North Pole as London is to Rome. I spent a week on a converted naval vessel, ski touring and trying to see - and avoid - polar bears. Story here, and in the next ⁦@FTMag⁩ https://t.co/HVQYN1SjKo

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

In print, you can just about see that the guide is holding the drone remote, telling us to walk nicely in line, and probably not expecting a still to make a full mag spread

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

Amazing read

[Simon Usborne @susborne]

@samwollaston @bbcweather 14,000mph in SE22. Might secure the bins