Articles
Outdoor Adventure Guide: Stay in a Gypsy Caravan
"She’s the only person in Britain, as far as she knows, who allows clients to clip clop away for a few days of wild camping and adventure towed by a real live horse" ... read
Fall-line Skiing magazine: The Graphic War
"The topsheet competition has reached an all-time high. Please let it peak before we all go blind or die in a mass pile-up checking out our feet. Freestyle skis started it, using out-there topsheets to flaunt their nonconformity" ... read
Outdoor Adventure Guide: Summit to Sea in Iceland
"This didn’t help. Neither did the fact that the ‘Visit Reykavik’ info the tourist board sent included a protective face mask! When I got there would I be stumbling around blindly in a fog of ash?!" ... read
Your Walks magazine: The Peak District
"What the Peak District doesn't have in loftiness, it makes up for in beauty, tranquility and unpredictability" ... read
BBC Countryfile magazine: East Anglia's Most Spectacular View
"The Norfolk coastline juts so far into the sea at this point that Snettisham actually faces west, making it one of the few places on Britain’s east coast where you can watch the sun set over the sea. The vast size of the Wash and the flatness of the landscape enhance this phenomenon" ... read
Adventure Travel magazine: Underwater Photography
"Taking photos through water is a lot more complicated than it is on dry land. Amateurs often end up with disheartening blurred, blue smears and a worn-out delete button on their camera" ... read
UKClimbing: Climbing and Mountaineering Dads
"... Climbing isn't a male-dominated world anymore, and child-rearing isn't a women-dominated one either. As gender roles increasingly blur, it's certainly an interesting time to explore the world of the modern mountaineer dad"... read
Adventure Travel magazine: Climb, Hike, Bike the Lakes
"...The first waves of ‘tourists’
to visit the Lake District
had probably read the
works of Wordsworth,
Coleridge and Southey, who lived
there at the turn of the 19th century.
The ‘Lake Poets’ encouraged
people to see beauty rather than
bleakness in countryside landscapes" ... read
Outdoor Adventure Guide: Get into Archery
"Russell Crowe developed a passion for archery after playing Robin Hood. Apparently he likes to shoot off 50 arrows in the outback for relaxation these days. He’s not the only one" ... read
Your Walks magazine: Southern Snowdonia
"Leave the crowds on the Snowdon Massif behind as you head for the remote glory of Southern Snowdonia" ... read
Adventure Travel magazine: Adventures Around Geneva
"Switzerland’s second-largest city is also blessed with an idyllic location: it’s on the shores of Lake Geneva, in the Rhône Valley between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, within view of the pinnacle of Mont Blanc. These beautiful surroundings provide adventurous activities aplenty" ... read
Adventure Travel magazine: Adventures Around Barcelona
"The main draw for Barcelona airport arrivals has long been the Costa Brava: tourist developments first sprung up on the ‘Rugged Coastline’ in the 1950s. But nowadays Spain’s second largest city has a well-developed adventure infrastructure, too" ... read
Adventure Travel magazine: Climb, Hike, Bike the Peak
"...thanks to a similar trick of semantics, the ‘Peak District’ has a conspicuous absence of high, pointy mountain summits. (‘Peac’ used to mean hill.) The region is actually characterised by gentle, rounded hilltops and long, level gritstone edges ... read
Adventure Travel magazine: Adventures Around Marrakech
"You can easily imagine genies and magic carpets swooping through the hustle and bustle, but when you leave the sizzling hot city behind (the Tizi-n-tichka pass towards the Atlas mountains is the usual escape route)" ... read
Adventure Travel Magazine: The Bob Graham Round
"...The
weather was steadily worsening as
we approached Great Gable, which at
898m was almost 100m higher than
any peak we’d climbed so far. A cloud
of sleet whipping and roaring round
the black rocks of the mountain summit
made it look like the Black Gates
of Mordor"... read
Adventure Travel Magazine: Climb, Hike, Bike the Lakes
"...The first waves of ‘tourists’
to visit the Lake District
had probably read the
works of Wordsworth,
Coleridge and Southey, who lived
there at the turn of the 19th century.
The ‘Lake Poets’ encouraged
people to see beauty rather than
bleakness in countryside landscapes" ... read
Adventure Travel Magazine: Marrakech: What To Do and Where To Go Around the City of Carpets
"...You can easily imagine genies and magic carpets swooping through the hustle and bustle, but when you leave the sizzling hot city behind (the road over the Tizi-n-tichka pass towards the Atlas mountains is the usual escape route) all is quiet on the other side" ... read
Adventure Travel Magazine: The Bob Graham Round
"...The
weather was steadily worsening as
we approached Great Gable, which at
898m was almost 100m higher than
any peak we’d climbed so far. A cloud
of sleet whipping and roaring round
the black rocks of the mountain summit
made it look like the Black Gates
of Mordor"... read
Adventure Travel Magazine: Climb, Hike, Bike the Lakes
"...The first waves of ‘tourists’
to visit the Lake District
had probably read the
works of Wordsworth,
Coleridge and Southey, who lived
there at the turn of the 19th century.
The ‘Lake Poets’ encouraged
people to see beauty rather than
bleakness in countryside landscapes" ... read
Adventure Travel Magazine: Marrakech: What To Do and Where To Go Around the City of Carpets
"...You can easily imagine genies and magic carpets swooping through the hustle and bustle, but when you leave the sizzling hot city behind (the road over the Tizi-n-tichka pass towards the Atlas mountains is the usual escape route) all is quiet on the other side" ... read