On the desolate and icy Ruta 9 from Morro Chico to Puerta Natales, Chile, traffic is hardly nose to tail. In fact since we set off this morning we have seen only a handful of 4×4´s and the odd bus lumbering past. They scrutinise us as we do them, nods and waves are exchanged but this …
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 …
Cold water swirled around my feet as I stood in the old kayak and paddled to the bank. Damp earth squeezed between my toes as I metronomically tied up the kayak and padded into a wall of darkness. The track was familiar to me now, even in its blackness.
Ok, so they might not have shiny spoilers or alloy wheels, but our new, just released EL 32 SWAROVISION sponsored binoculars, are the racing car elites in the world of optics. And they’re about to get the test of their lives! Weighing in at a mere 580g, they effortlessly accelerate through our on-going concerns over …
Sorghum and bright spray-green dairy-cow pasture, stretch into the long undulating horizon of southern Uruguay. The landscape, like so many cities, could be transplanted across the world. Sometimes I look and I see
Fantastic News!!! The John Muir Trust has awarded us a, ‘Bill Wallace Grant’! The John Muir Trust is one of the leading wild land conservation charities in the UK. They protect 115,000 hectares of some of Scotland’s finest rugged heather
Sin represas = Without dams; This is the message on thousands of Chileans’ lips. Chilean Patagonia is the most pristine wilderness we have ever set foot in. Tumbling waterfalls, towering snow-capped fjords, glaciers unfolding into pristine valleys, heaving with wildlife. We sailed for weeks without seeing a single human being; our mouths just hanging open in a …
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Eddie Izzard would be proud of us. Our training regime goes from bad to worse.
0500, Sunday 15 January 2012, Tortel, southern Chile, S 47°48 30, W 73°32. 20. I’ve just crawled out of bed. Can’t sleep. I’m writing emails in my sleep that shoot round and round in my head. Piles of dishes collect, stuff slumps onto the floor. All I can think about is the Berghaus Challenge and …
It’s not just Arctic terns, monarch butterflies and blue whales that undertake incredible journeys, their Homo sapien relatives are too! We’ve linked forces with fellow conservation adventurer John Davis. He has just completed (November 2011) a gargantuan 7,600 mile “Trek East” through