Everest...

The photo which illustrates this article in yesterday’s Guardian fills me with dread… for a dozen different reasons. It gives me vertigo and it’s ridiculous. These climbers are queueing - in the ‘death zone’, at a height of 8,000 metres - to reach the summit of Everest. In the search for the ultimate experience, people are dying on the way up, people are dying on the way down. Having paid as much as £50,000 to achieve the dream of a lifetime, a lot of climbers simply don’t know when to quit...

Bridgegate House, in Howden...