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In shadowing each woman until their own deaths, Fletcher deepens our understanding of how Oriana, Kathleen and Lois strove to move beyond grief

Baransky volcano on the Kuril Islands, Russia. Photograph: Yuri Smityuk/TASS Paolo Cognetti’s book Without Ever Reaching The Summit is a powerful evocation of the traveller’s enduring need to be surprised, and it has made me think of a place I want to return to when this is all over: the Kuril Islands in Russia’s far east, strung like a necklace between Kamchatka and Hokkaido. Soviet historians called them the end of the world but they feel more like the beginning: the haunting mist, the steel-grey ocean scored with pathways of foam, conical volcanoes wrapped in skirts of shimm...

Michael Palin’s Himalaya: Journey of a Lifetime, BBC2, review: Not as good as the original 2004 series The i 12/20/2020 Emily Baker © Provided by The i Michael Palin's Himalaya: Journey of a Lifetime (Photo: BBC/Firecrest Films/Ryan McNamara) Like the famous fans who appeared in  Michael Palin’s Himalaya: Journey of a Lifetime, I can still remember the impression the former Python’s trip to the Himalayas made on me when I first saw it in 2004. Unveiling an area of the world we had been taught to fear and question as a place of beauty and friendliness – the woman ...