Well, that's the thing. Anyone who's seen a photo or read a field note - even seen a miscellaneous entry - on here and thought 'I might go there' has been positively influenced.

Colin Prior takes the most amazing mountain landscapes I've ever seen. Poucher used a Leica and was nowhere near. But Prior lugs a massive device around I couldn't possibly carry, reconnoitres the peaks for optimum lighting conditions. He is at the top of his game... so we don't have to be. It's been done. Cope took loads of drugs, 'crossed over'... set up TMA. If you've read the autobiographies you know he went through shit. So we don't have to.

What we need to do is just do what we do and try to capture the moment.