Simon Usborne

Reed Hastings is the only mogul in Utah’s Powder Mountain 😂 Great piece from @susborne in @ftweekend on.ft.com/3F2hIQN The Netflix tycoon, his private resort — and the future of skiing

You Can Now Climb Everest in a Week Using Xenon Doping: The Implications bit.ly/3PzVAis

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 ft.com/content/0f0d1c…

Wrote about historical consultants in film, who are often paid to be ignored. I’m told Ridley Scott has now banned them from set theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/…

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 ft.com/content/af1446… ft @PrinceBrendon @RedPaddleCo @CalMajor_ ft.com/content/af1446…

Hadn't clocked that this excellent doc is now on iPlayer (Storyville) m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYOqk0…

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

I wrote a new longreAARRGGGHH! All about rollercoaAARRGGGHH! theguardian.com/travel/2024/oc… With thanks to the ride creators and obsessives who contributed, also @ClareLongrigg for the idea and the edit

Fantastic piece about about the phenomenal Rebecca Roberts – the ultimate survivor and thriver. By @KiraCochrane theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

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.

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 thetimes.com/article/09f357…

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

Treehouses are the current big trend in travel. I stayed in a posh one in the Cotswolds inspired, in part, by The Simpsons. ft.com/content/97c587…

Thinking of getting dental veneers? Think twice! The dark side of the Love Island smile: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

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 🪕saltpublishing.com/products/the-c…

From this video. He’s dougaltaverner on insta

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

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 ft.com/content/214ef6…

Amazing read

Exclusive: Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest Big news if confirmed via @NatGeo @jimkchin nationalgeographic.com/adventure/arti…

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

Milton's nothing to what @bbcweather says we're getting in London today. 3,508mph wind! 🍃