First month’s wildlife records: 28 July – 28 August 2012

Now then… just what you’ve been twitching for… here is the first month’s wildlife list! It includes all the species of weird and wonderful wildlife we have seen whilst running.  After all, these are the true celebrates of the 5000mileproject and for whom we started this expedition for in the first place! The list begins …

A surprise visitor on a windy day in patagonia

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 …

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 …

he probably wouldn’t tolerate the unpleasant smell of us

Its 0430, not a time we normally rise but this morning we have an appointment with the doctor in Montevideo to get some xrays on my leg, and that involves a 4 hour journey beginning now. We prise ourselves from our cosy bed, row our numb bodies to the shore, tether the dinghy and somehow …

‘The Pioneers take the arrows, the settlers take the land’.

Dave found this quote the other day, by Amory Lovins, on his fantastic Rocky Mountain Institute website. We’re feeling a bit like that the pioneers at the moment! We’re pretty sure no one has done anything like the 5000 mile project before. We’re going to have to shed a lot of tears and sweat; nurture some …