26 JANUARY 2002, page 30

Mountains Of The Moon

Septuagenarian Tom Stacey pits himself against the glaciers of the Equator THE other day, when it was still summer in Kensington, I was gripped by a compulsion to climb to the......

Isle Of Wight

Wight spirit Jonathan Ray I HAD been to the Isle of Wight only once before, about 12 summers ago, for a wedding — an occasion of which I remember very little, except that all......