Sub-Saharan Africa is often viewed by backpackers as too expensive, too poor and too dangerous for independent travel. A place better left to wealthy tourists with a colonial streak. Let’s be real, this impression doesn’t come from a vacuum. Across…
Scafell Pike: English adventures at almost 1000m – Part 1
This is a tale of how three woman, two babies and a husband climbed England’s tallest mountain. Turn back all ye who enter here. That mountain is Scafell Pike, standing at 978m in the far west of the Lake District…
Kenya: Trekking to the Summit of Mount Kenya – Part 1
How I Found Rain and Sub Zero Temperatures in Africa
Turkmenistan: the Darvaza Gas Crater – Part 1
Misadventures on a Five Day Transit Visa in a Totalitarian Regime
St Francis’ Way: Assisi to Rome – Part 1
Tramping through glorious Italy – countryside, culture and catholicism.
Everest Base Camp Trek – via Gokyo and the Cho La Pass – Part 1
How to lose the crowds, cross a glacier and stand on the foothills of giants.
Indian Himalayas – Markha Valley Trek in Ladakh – part 1
How to live like a Ladakhi and embrace the Buddha.