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Mark Horrell
Personal blog · markhorrell.com/blogwritingculture
Mark Horrell's personal blog at markhorrell.com covers writing and culture. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mark Horrell's blog for posts on British railway history, such as the Moorgate station signage and Edward Watkin, and on aviation, such as the Lukla mountain flight. Commenters only cite it and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Humorous travel writing for those who love mountains and don’t take their climbing too seriously: quirky, irreverent, historically accurate, and wickedly funny.
What Hacker News says?
Edward Watkin was amazing. Metropolitan Line? Check. Channel Tunnel? Check. Great Central Railway, the first inter-city continental-gauge railway in Britain? Check[1]. Pioneered a difficult ascent up Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales? Check[2]. Planned lucrative housing development along public transport infrastructure, known as Metroland? Check[3]. There's a movie in there somewhere. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o…
Comment linking /blog/2012/snowdon-via-the-watkin-path/
on “Why does London's Moorgate tube station have a mix of logo signage?”Submitted A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese are the little planes which fly tourists between Kathmandu and Lukla airport (with its notoriously short runway) when you go trekking in the Himalayas. http://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2011/the-lukla-flight-is-it-...
Comment linking /blog/2011/the-lukla-flight-is-it-really-that-scary/
on “Risky South Pole mission: retrieve sick scientists from research station”Submitted 5 of the silliest mountain firsts as a story · 1 points
HN discussion