"Mountains are not fair or unfair – they are dangerous"

Reinhold Messner

"Alpinism is the art of suffering"

Voytek Kurtyka

"You recognize great climbers by a certain look in their eyes, telling you they are doing exactly what they want with their lives, and loving it"

Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
Inaki Ochoa and Tom Clowes in Pamplona having just 'run with the bulls!' Paragliding at 6000ft in Greece - flying with the eagles! Tom, Venetia, Jonno and Nick (self timer) sailing back from the Azores Paragliding in Spain
Ben and Tom descending Elbrus in the snow Tom flying at Mere in Dorset (UK) Tom flying at Mere in Dorset (UK) Nick Jeffrey, Tom and Ben Clowes (Elbrus - Caucasus)
Driving to Everest from Tibet - Everest can be seen on the horizon A happy Tom near Minehead on the coast (UK) A tired Tom on Everest at ABC on the Tibetan side Tom back in Kathmandu (2000) having climbed Ama Dablam - wearing yak bell and sporting bushy beard!
Tom on climbing frame (1976) Tom using a hypoxicator before the 2004 Everest Expedition to aid aclimatisation Tom after the Ama Dablam Expedition (2000) - about to wash and shave! Tom and Ben Clowes on a 'Trail' Magazine photo shoot