COME & JOIN US TO CELEBRATE RUNNING SOUTH AMERICA!
Come and JOIN us in London on Saturday 26th October to celebrate RUNNING SOUTH AMERICA!!!
David Lowrie: Accenture Alumni Interview
Transcript from a recent interview with my former company about how a wayward management consultant came to be running 35km a day, living in a tent, trying to raise money, awareness and inspire environmental action for South Americas wild places . . . Over the coming year, we will look to profile Accenture UK alumni who have …
Naked river crossings in winter wonderland epic quest to find the start line
I am writing this blog from my fingertips in the warmth and safety of a pitstop in a B&B, but in reality it was etched in my memory 4 days before. I am in the back of a 4×4 pickup being whisked along in the dark with the Magellan Straights to my left, my …
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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 …
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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 …
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Day of the Dutch
Pitch Black. 0715am, Valdivia, Chile. Winter. We’re on the road again. 2 hour, 5 hour, 12 hour, 12 hour and 3 hour bus rides later and we should be in Punta Arenas by Tuesday night; southern most city in the world. We are not great company to be around: we both having streaming colds, I …
Chasing Kit and Buses…6 days to go!
21 July 2012… Six days to go! And an update from over the Andes in Chile. We’re sitting in Bram and Vivian’ 50 year old Dutch yawl in Valdivia, laptops tapping, Bram and Vivian solution centres whirring! We should now be on the bus to Punta Arenas but school holidays and snow have conspired to …
Buenos Aires and beyond…
I’m sitting cross legged in Buenos Aires. We’re on the hoof, finally!
A Magician brings tidings of a cold spell
Mago arrived today, on a boat from Buenos Aires. Mago means Magician in Spanish. Actually he is called “mono de milano”, the Monkey of Milan. Maybe he has a more convential name but when someone as charasmatic as Mono arrives such formalities seem unimportant and inappropriate. He is a modern day legend of the Southern …
Three days to go .. and we’re on a 45 degree tilt.
Only three more days left on the boat and we’re drastically re-prioritising what is absolutely necessary for the 5000mileproject. We’re surrounded by half packed boxes of books, tools and clothes. Lista Light, our old 77 year old lady (wooden boat) has been our only home for the last four years and it is amazing what …
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