As she poses jubilantly for a photograph at Everest Base Camp, Corinne Turnbull, 51, looks the picture of fitness.
Conquering the world’s highest mountain is a challenge few of us would contemplate. But in Corinne’s case, that smile of triumph was especially hard-won – as just over a decade earlier, shortly before her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
I recently wrote in this newspaper about my own shock at discovering I had the condition, which
A couple who relocated to live out their dream in the Alps reveal pictures of their new life in the mountains, where they have so far hiked hundreds of summits – including 50 peaks in one year.
Christine Madeux, 26, and her husband Scott Madeux, 29, packed up their belongings and moved from the U.S to Bavaria in Germany ‘to be close to some of the most beautiful mountains in the world’.
Four years on, the couple, from Indiana and
He lived a life of untrammeled 1970s fabulousness – then seemed to vanish off the face of the Earth, leaving only a tantalizing enigma behind.
But fans of Sterling St. Jacques would expect no less of the world’s first male supermodel, who is now largely forgotten.
His star blazed brightly throughout the disco era, when he bestrode Manhattan like he owned it – and dazzled the upper echelons of the A-list at New York’s iconic Studio 54 nightclub.
Breathtakingly handsome,
As Taylor Swift rolled into Los Angeles this week, the frenzy surrounding her record-breaking Eras Tour was already in high gear.
Headlines gushed that she had given $100,000 bonuses to her crew. Politicians asked her to postpone her concerts in solidarity with striking hotel workers. Scalped tickets were going for $3,000 and up. And there were way, way too many friendship bracelets to count.
These days, the center of an otherwise splintered music world can only be Taylor Swift.
The
Sometime in the eighties, the story goes—and every musical genre is ultimately a story—a few bands in America’s hypermasculine hardcore-punk scene started making music with poetic, emotionally vulnerable lyrics, and people called this music “emo,” as in “emocore,” as in “emotional hardcore.” In the nineties, indie bands with more interest in melody continued exploring similar lyrical territory, and people called their music emo, too, even though it didn’t really sound the same. In the early two-thousands, bands from cultural hinterlands—Boca
Vaping hit the mainstream in the 2010s and was viewed as a safe smoking cessation tool that could finally wean millions of tobacco users off cigarettes.
Though it may seem foreign and outlandish now, there was a time not too long ago during which a person could vape indoors, even on hospital property in some cases.
The collective acceptance of vaping as, at least on its surface, a safer smoking alternative, obscured real health harms conferred by the devices that
When the British author Bernardine Evaristo was in her early twenties, she and her drama-school friends would go to London’s theatres and heckle the performances. “It wouldn’t have been anything like ‘Rubbish!’ because it was a political heckling,” Evaristo, now sixty-two, told me recently. They would have been more likely to yell “Sexist!” or “Racist!” and then disappear, giddily, into the night. Recounting the habit this past December, Evaristo put on a mock posh accent and called it “appalling, appalling
