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Shooting flares at benzine, Spitsbergen, July 2011 (also about as stupid as dancing on an iceberg)

Alone atop Sausage Mountain, Spitsbergen, July 2011

Good boating weather, Spitsbergen, July 2011

Very posh toilet (prior to first use), Spitsbergen, July 2011

Iceberg hopping in Spitsbergen, July 2011 (probably not a very good idea)

I promised not to publish this picture, but what are promises for if not to be broken...

This is class - a conveyor belt of sushi. It just keeps going round and round.

Having a tea break while collecting deep marine cherts at the Gujo-Hachiman section in Japan, with Kiyoko Kuwahara.

Myself, Stephanie and Helen contemplate the limestones at Gouchang, shortly before the police came and told us we were not welcome.

The Chairman gets all shiny in downtown Guiyang.

Saying goodbye to our precious samples at the DHL depot in Guiyang. Amazingly, all the samples turned up in Leeds just 6 days later.

The group standing by the contact between Maokou Limestone and Emeishan Basalt at Xiong Jia Chang, Guizhou Province. L-R: Rob Newton, Helen Cope, Jason Hilton, Wang Hao, Stephanie Vedrine, the author, Shao Longyi, Mr Tsao, Jiang Haishui.

Jiang Haishui collects conodont samples from the Fuquan section, east of Guiyang.

The trouble with fieldwork in China. Small children.

In Yukon, Northern Canada, taking a day off from gold panning to drive up to the Tombstone Mountains. I was in Canada for a month in summer 2006, collecting sedimentological data and gold grains with Rob Chapman, Simon Lloyd (both Leeds), Bill Lebarge (Yukon Geol. Survey), Jim Mortensen, and Evan Crawford (UBC). You can read the results of this fieldwork in the YEG paper, Bond and Chapman, 2006, on my publications page.

From left to right, myself, Simon Lloyd, and Rob Chapman, in the glorious Klondike sunshine.

Having an (ice) cold beer straight from the stream, at Alf's placer camp, in the Klondike. From left to right: Evan Crawford, Rob Chapman, Alf, myself, and Bill Lebarge.

This is the paydirt at Alf's place.

We drove all over the Klondike region. The roads were interesting, and I sometimes had trouble telling the difference between forwards (DRIVE) and backwards (REVERSE), which seemed to cause a tour group of 80 year old Americans some concern in Dawson. I hope the police don't read this....

Where we couldn't drive, we flew. I feel very sick in this photo.

Underneath the pegmatite in the 1st year mapping area in northwest Scotland.

The hut on top of Skala, the highest climb (metres from sea-level) in Norway. I went hiking there a couple of years ago.