Friends in high places: Hiking the Welsh 3000’s
When I set off south down the Americas in May 2010 I fully expected to meet a few people and probably make a few friends along the way. What I […]
Category Archives: On The Road
What I’ve Been Getting Up To
Pennine Way(s)
Since I returned to England at the end of 2015 I’ve been trying to steal some time away with friends in the Cumbrian Lake District. Recently we managed to get […]
Counting forwards, counting backwards & counting lucky stars
Some people struggle to readjust after long bicycle tours in foreign lands. Fortunately, thanks to some kind and generous friends and a supportive family, that wasn’t me. I didn’t lapse […]
The road to a new rhythm… Illinois through Wisconsin to Michigan
Walking away from Ushuaia with a puffed chest, smug smile and the nagging doom of a return to ‘normality’ was never going to be my style. Having spent so long […]
Argentine Tierra del Fuego: Lightly bumping the buffers
Reaching Ushuaia and running out of land to explore south could have been so many things. What it actually turned out to be was typical, ordinary and completely ‘normal’. Ushuaia: […]
Chilean Tierra del Fuego: The warm fires of Gaucholandia
Tierra del Fuego, the land of fire, a far off island that has all too quickly became the ground beneath my tires. Although never anything more than just an exotic […]
Peachy, Beachy, Patagonian Business
Leah recently admitted to me that when we were arranging to meet up she thought I might be a touch deluded with my plans. A large hunk of my favorite […]
A towering Paine in the pampa
Chris Bonnington, Don Whillans, Dougal Haston, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker and my hero Doug Scott, just a few of the men that made up the golden generation of British mountaineering. […]
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