{"id":1774,"date":"2013-06-06T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bob-kerr.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2021-01-16T00:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:21:02","slug":"back-in-scotland-via-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"Back in Scotland via Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-kerr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Ron-Deardon-and-W.-T.-Stringfellow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1775\" title=\"With Ron Deardon and W. T. Stringfellow. (c) Bob Kerr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-kerr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Ron-Deardon-and-W.-T.-Stringfellow-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Ron-Deardon-and-W.-T.-Stringfellow-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Ron-Deardon-and-W.-T.-Stringfellow-1024x873.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Ron-Deardon-and-W.-T.-Stringfellow-640x546.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/With-Ron-Deardon-and-W.-T.-Stringfellow.jpg 1855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thursday 6th June 2013 &#8211; Twenty one years ago today I completed the first of my three life goals (ascending Ben Nevis before the age of 16) during a trip out with the Marr College Hillwalking Club that was led by my physics teacher Mr Adams. I remember that it was a gorgeous hot, sunny day and reaching the summit via the Carn Mor Dearg arete was a big achievement for me at the time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I am getting closer and closer to home now, but before I reached bonnie Scotland today I stopped off in the Manchester area to meet the poet W.T. Stringfellow who had written a poem for me titled &#8220;Mountain of Kings&#8221;. I felt honoured to have had a poem written for me and I recited this poem from Everest in an <a title=\"Everest Northeast ridge expedition 2013 \u2013 47th phonecast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bob-kerr.com\/?p=1696\">audio blog<\/a>. The poem that had been penned for me is as follows:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Call of the mountain,<br \/>\nLured many a man.<br \/>\nIn awe and wonder,<br \/>\nVocations began.<br \/>\nSeason upon season,<br \/>\nAll weather and terrain.<br \/>\nThe mountain around,<br \/>\nBeing never the same.<br \/>\nConsuming, bewildering,<br \/>\nMany times they\u2019d return.<br \/>\nFor the mountain holds secrets,<br \/>\nFew men can discern.<br \/>\nMysteries,belief,god,<br \/>\nAnd all known things.<br \/>\nRevered be the man,<br \/>\nOn the mountains of the Kings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The poet Wayne Thomas (W.T.) Stringfellow is a good friend of Ron Dearden who works for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirion Technologies<\/a>. Mirion Technologies have been very supportive of my efforts to make cosmic radiation measurements on Everest and I will be sending back their detectors to California for processing as soon as I get home. When I get the results back then I can start producing my scientific paper on high altitude radiation exposure of mountaineers. I look forward to getting the results back and analysing the data.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Upon arrival in Southern Scotland I headed over to Troon to see my parents for the evening (and collect my car which they had got MOT&#8217;d and re-road taxed for me whilst I was away &#8211; Thanks Dad!). It was nice seeing them after a few months away and getting a nice homemade meal from my mum.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Is it time for the beard to go as I am coming to the end of this expedition? Keep following the adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 6th June 2013 &#8211; Twenty one years ago today I completed the first of my three life goals (ascending Ben Nevis before the age of 16) during a trip out with the Marr College Hillwalking Club that was led by my physics teacher Mr Adams. I remember that it was a gorgeous hot, sunny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-kerr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}