The Independent Blog:Shoots of Recovery in Patagonia After a Century of Over-Grazing

If you were to consider man’s impact on the natural world, it would perhaps begin with industrialisation. Hot-footed in its path would follow a tangle of pollution, booming populations, intensive agriculture and over-consumption. During the past 700 miles of our 5000mileproject odyssey…. Please click here for the blog: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/01/5000-mile-project-shoots-of-recovery-in-patagonia-after-a-century-of-over-grazing/              

The Independent Blog: running into Patagonia’s fantastically oblivious Mr Fox

We’re over three weeks into our 5000 mile odyssey to run the length of South  America for its threatened wild areas. Our feet are gradually becoming used to the daily routine, if not yet responding with true athletic gusto! We awoke this morning in out tent… Please click here for the blog: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/04/5000-project-running-into-patagonias-fantastically-oblivious-mr-fox/ Please do …

The Independent Blog: The silent death of a forest

What images do you see when you think of Patagonia? An icy steppe? Well, there is that – but as we sailed through Chile’s fjords we also found lush rainforests and turquoise waters. Now, as we travel in our recycled trailer through a Patagonian winter, we are discovering another unexpected sight; the Lenga forest…. Follow …

Independent Blog: To the end of the earth, in the footsteps of pumas and the lost people of Magellan

5000 mile project: To the end of the earth, in the footsteps of puma & the lost people of Magellan By Katharine and David Lowrie Notebook, Sport Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 10:05 am These first few days of our year-long 5000 mile project run of South America represent some of the most remote and …

The Independent Blog: A series of semi-hiccups and mini-disasters

Posted in, “The Independent”, Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 10:35 am. This week has been drawing ominously close; the week David and I start running the length of South America. We’re sitting on a double-decker bus nearing the southerly most city in the world, Punta Arenas, Chile and we’re being shaken like a doll by …

The Independent Blog: Running the Length of South America

As preparations for the London Olympics intensify, 5000 miles away, we’re launching our own Olympian bid. On the 27 July 2012, we will be standing on the southerly-most point of the South American continent, gazing out to the fabled Southern Ocean. From that wild, sea battered peninsular, Cabo Froward, we will begin running. A run …