JOURNALISM 1978 TO 2007  -  A SELECTION OF ARTICLES

Regular articles and reports, usually illustrated with Venables’s own photographs, for the following specialist journals:

Alpine Journal
American Alpine Journal
Climber Magazine USA
Climbing magazine UK
High magazine – regular monthly column 1986 – 1998
Mountain magazine
Geographical magazine

Also occasional articles for:
Desnivel
La Montagna
Vertical
Panorama


Daily Telegraph outdoor pages 1991 – 1997
Assorted articles. Topics included:
Catherine Destivelle
Chris Bonington and Robin Knox-Johnstone
Caving in South Wales
The London cycle route
Will McLewin – musician, botanist and mountaineer
Gravel extraction in upper Thames valley

Guardian 1993
Cover story on 1953 Everest expedition

The Scotsman
November 1995 – article on autism
2000 – article on following Shackleton’s steps across South Georgia

Country Living Magazine 1997
Historical feature on the great plant hunters

Daily Telegraph magazine 1998
Personal account of sailing climbing expedition to Tierra del Fuego

Gardens Illustrated magazine 1999
Story on traditional vegetable-dyed carpet project in Turkey

Independent on Saturday – garden pages – 2002
Feature on Dick Renshaw’s sculpture exhibition at Hergest Croft
Feature on natural swimming pools


Daily Telegraph 1999 – 2003
Occasional reviews for Saturday books page

Observer January 2000
Personal account of life with an autistic child.

Sunday Telegraph 2000
Feature on Reinhold Messner and hunt for yeti.


RECENT ARTICLES AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET

01.07.01 - Mail on Sunday Travel – Kenya conservation
www.porini.com/ecotourism/mail.html

09.06.02 - Mail on Sunday – Mount Olympus
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-87053957.html?refid=ency_botnm

16.01.05 -  Sunday Times News Review
Playing for Time – interview with Auschwitz cellist survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article412816.ece

20.02.05 - Mail on Sunday Travel – skiing in Val d’Anniviers
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-128956866. html?refid=ency_botnm  

27.02.05 - Sunday Times Travel – Himalayan trekking
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10292-1504792.html  

05.02.2006 - Sunday Times Travel – Music with Altitude – Lucerne Festival
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/holiday_type/music_and_travel/article725855.ece

27.08.06 - Sunday Times News Review – Ranulph Fiennes Eiger training
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2330026,00.html


Mail on Sunday Travel – Walking in Picos de Europa
http://www.thisistravel.co.uk/travel/activities/ Walking-on-sunshine--article.html?in_article_id=46765   

10.07.06 - Independent – Obituary of Henry Osmaston, geographer and explorer
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1169719.ece

28.11.06 - Independent – Obituary of Bernard Rimland, autism expert
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2021238.ece

02.09.07 - Sunday Times News Review – Haramosh disaster 50th anniversary
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article2367075.ece  

28.11.07 – Guardian
On Thinning Ice – Climate change in The Alps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/28/guardiansocietysupplement.glaciers


13.01.08 – Sunday Times
A Step Into History – Sir Edmund Hillary
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3176463.ece

19.10.08 – Observer
Nordic skiing in Austria
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/oct/19/travelawards2008-wintersports