Tom Isitt

@tomisitt.bsky.social

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Author, historian, cyclist, hiker, occasional climber, idiot adventurer with unrealistic goals and expectations.

Your grandchild, 30 years from now
Vauquois used to be a village on a hill, now it’s an ugly scar in the landscape caused by WW1 mines
Rusting wheels and gear resting on a concrete block in the woods
His Holiness Pope Doggo at the top of an elegant staircase
MTB stuck in a bramble thicket
A rather expensive new battery for my car
John Schindler recommended my book!
Tom riding his eMTB along a Roman road in Lazio, Italy
Very wet Labrador dog shaking itself after a swim in a lake
Thunderstorms over Italian countryside
A rare black Alpine Otter in a freezing cold lake in the Carnic Alps
Country crafts museum in Obertilliach
Mountain panorama with Alpine meadows
Large balcony with enough room to ride my bike around.
The Brenta Dolomites
Poster showing Serbia being attacked by three nations
The front cover of The Road of Hope and Sorrow, by Nigel Bruce
Part of a review of Thunder in the Mountains by an academic who can’t get past referenced history in chronological order.
A sports nutrition drink made from bone broth
Exposure map of the Carnic Alps
Serbian officer looking at a frozen corpse during the Great Retreat of 1915
Cyclists riding along a muddy road in the rain
Most minor roads in the Balkans seem to be like this…muddy and difficult
High river levels in the Piave brought the Austrian offensive in June 1918 to a halt. There was no way to resupply the 15 divisions that had crossed the river.
Terrifying crevasses in the Zebrù glacier
Sketch of Filmoor in the Carnic Alps
Friends meme about the idiotic endless renaming of the Dauphiné
Note from Italian reader, saying how TiTM helped his family connect with ancestors who fought on the Italian Front
Photo of Dawa Sherpa, who survived an incredible ordeal on Everest
The cover of Sixth Day by Rastko Petrović
Map of Peralba front lines
Map of the Frohntal valley in Austria
Fossilised crinoid, looking a bit like Alien spawn
Meme from movie Zulu
Silly old fool, on a glacier in the Ortler Alps.
A bizarre photo of a man on all fours being ridden by another man and being spanked by a third gentleman
Digging out the victims of an avalanche
Cima Undici on the left, Croda Rossa middle-right.
14 staples holding my scalp in place
Puerile drivel masquerading as “content”
North face of Sextener Rotwand in the snow
Me riding one of those strange 3-wheeler Yamahas in the Giro caravan
Big fat rubbery MTB tyre
Soldiers on a communal crapper, WW1