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🚨Personal news klaxon 🚨delighted to announce my new role as the chief personal food writer for HM King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Lots to do, can’t wait to get started!

So good. Sylvain Saudan, ‘skier of the impossible’, 1936-2024 by ⁦Tom Robbins⁩ on.ft.com/3Sd5V5T

Sarah Storey’s fabulous 18th gold medal today reminds me of the time I went cycling with her - and ended up with a bum full of splinters … on.ft.com/4dO7Hmt

I’m on the hunt for ski news - any tour operators with new resorts, new hotels, new lifts, amazing new kit - lmk!!

Looking for ski tour operators who offer trips during October half term - email me! Thanks!

The rain in Port of Spain - love this by Susan Elderkin ft.com/content/8e6f5e… via @ft

Ski news: Verbier’s ultimate chalet — and the lift pass that can save your life ft.com/content/b282d8… via @ft Super news from Tom Robbins and Abi Butcher including Iglu Ski

The hack for half-term family ski trips - go in October? on.ft.com/3NoY9Ts

Spent lots of time recently calling in pix for a ski kit guide - not products, just pix. Given it’s free, global visibility it’s amazing how some brands just don’t reply. One sunglasses maker said they’d come back but never did, another brand refused to put my call through

Classic line from Rog: “Clearly the Scott Trust, owners of the Guardian, wants to wash its hands of the Obs, which it has always seemed to view as an unwanted and charismatic neighbour arriving at a sedate family dinner.” pressgazette.co.uk/news/tortoise-…

US publications like Bloomberg really struggle with the Alps, eg - recommending a Saalbach hotel that isn’t in Saalbach…bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The York Cafe - famous to Bristol students as home of the 99p breakfast (and where I once met Steve Malkmus) has gone posh! theguardian.com/food/2024/oct/…

Crazy climbing story: new film from Patagonia - a brand not shy to lecture on ethics - has been doctored, airbrushing out another team that was on the summit at the same time as the movie’s stars. Full story: alpinemag.com/jirishanca-the…

Upwardly mobile: why billionaires and backcountry skiers are flocking to Jackson ft.com/content/ab6518… Jackson Hole #ski #travel #adventure

Everest in a week - the guide offering trips to the summit and home in less time than an average beach holiday (thanks to innovative gas pre-treatments). Could revolutionise commercial climbing on Everest on.ft.com/3Wgv4yp

Can’t help wondering - We all know New York Times Travel doesn’t accept discounts, so how much did they spend to have a reporter helicopter in to Barbuda to do this glowing profile of De Niro’s hotel project? nytimes.com/2025/01/14/tra…

Maybe live-blogging a one fact announcement wasn’t such a good idea….theguardian.com/sport/live/202…

The Brockwell Park festival controversy is replicated in Peckham Rye, where Southwark Council held a consultation on the Gala festival. Result: 60% of respondents don’t want it, 15% do. Guess what? Council give the go ahead anyway….