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Two years after setting off into the hills, the grandfather of four only has eight of Scotland’s Munros to climb. Sky News reports that an 82-year-old man is just eight peaks away from completing his challenge of climbing the peaks of Scotland’s 282...‘I call it sauna head – your ego disappears’: how the UK got hooked on heat
From a hut by a Welsh river to a converted horsebox on the beach, saunas are appearing in unlikely spots all over the country. It’s a chilly morning in Walpole Bay, Kent, and I’m waist deep in the sea. Unable to stand it any longer, I wade out and sprint across the...Ourplace News
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