Height club: Incredible pictures show the mighty Mount Thor, which features the world’s greatest vertical drop – of 4,100ft (that’s three Empire State Buildings end to end) Mount Thor stands like a colossus in the snowy wilderness of the Auyuittuq National Park in Canada Its west face has a 4,101ft sheer drop, with an overhanging … Read more
Hard to believe, but next month sees the 50th anniversary of the day The Beatles broke up. The four of them had been together for under eight years, Ringo having joined John, Paul and George in the summer of 1962. Yet as President Obama noted when presenting Sir Paul McCartney with an award at the … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK ON THE HIGH WIRE By Philippe Petit (Weidenfeld & Nicholson £9.99, 115pp) When my son ran away to join the circus, I more or less ran away with him. I couldn’t be kept away from the Academy of Circus Arts, the apprentice arm of Zippos. Most weekends, I would cook a … Read more
House Of Glass Hadley Freeman Fourth Estate £16.99 Rating: The dedication at the front of this remarkable book is short and sweet. ‘For my father, Ron Freeman,’ it reads, ‘and my Grandma Sala.’ But like so much else in House Of Glass, those simple words contain a universe. Twelve years after her grandmother’s death in … Read more
German historian Volker Ullrich, gives a new account of Hitler’s life in a gripping sequel to his mammoth biography of the Fuhrer.