Everest Base Camp Day 3 – First Sight of Everest
Everest Base Camp The Lazy Way – Day 3 First Sight of Everest It is not, exactly, that our legs hurt, but even the sight...
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“Little Bit Up” – Everest Base Camp Day 2
Everest Base Camp the Lazy Way – Day 2 Phakding to Namche Bazar “I don’t know why they build these bloody paths like this,” says...
How To Climb Mount Kinabalu with Kids
Mount Kinabalu, in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is marketed as the highest mountain in South-East Asia, excluding the Himalayas and Puncak Jaya in Indonesian Papua. And...
The Village Where Time Just Stopped
Up in the Chouf, the mountains that are home to Lebanon’s biggest nature reserve, a whirl of cedars, cypresses, golden broom and wildflowers, we make...
In the Footsteps of Moses
There’s something about Dahab which produces a phenomenon of sloth I like to think of as “mission creep”, but which might better be described as...
The Beauty of Tibet on Horseback
The mountains outside Songpan, where northern China gives way to old Tibet, are some of the most beautiful we’ve visited. Alpine meadows give onto vistas...
Camping in a Winter Wonderland
I watch in mounting horror as Martin heads off into the mountains, leaving our tent flaccid on the ground, and Z endeavours to start a...
In Search of Snow — on Horseback
One of Z’s signal complaints – his desire for a skyline safely sated by China – over almost two years in the tropics has been...
Z Versus the Lake of Farts
After our trials and tribulations getting to Ijen, the mountain refuge feels, well, gooooood… Basic, sure. But basic in a good, sweet, simple way. We’re...
Yes, You Can Lock Your Keys In A Motorbike
When I was in my (very) early teens, my mother ran out of petrol while taking me home from school. She set off, on foot,...