After breakfast, the ship had come to a stop. We watched and waited with great anticipation as we saw the Zodiac with the guides head out to Half Moon Island, a small island in the South Shetland Islands, that would hopefully be our first landing of the trip. Nothing is guaranteed in Antarctica – you […]
A wise man once said “the reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them” – as to who that wise man was, I’ve seen this attributed to far too many people to be sure who first said in. Nonetheless, the sentiment is one I strongly agree with. Some goals are […]
For anyone who follows this blog, you may have noticed the lack of activity for more than a year. This was not due to inactivity on my side, but rather too much activity. I will hopefully catch up on everything from my Drakensberg Grand Traverse last December to my four and a half months in […]
We made our way from from Minapin to Karimabad. For a desert town, it was remarkably green. The Hunza Princely State was established around 1200AD and acceded to Pakistan on 3 November 1947. The fort commands great views over the town. When we arrived, the mountains were still hidden in the clouds. One summit was […]
Classification of mountain ranges is something I’ve had strong feelings about for many years, so when I heard that we’d be traveling through the location where the Karakoram, Himalaya and Hindu Kush meet – I naturally had to do some homework on this location. Claims like this often disregard observable facts in favour of marketing. […]
If you ask ten people who are knowledgeable about the greater ranges what their favourite 8000er is, most will give you the same answer: K2. But if they had to provide a second answer, Nanga Parbat would likely be the most common response. I first learned about the existence of Nanga Parbat in my early […]
It’s a surprisingly well kept secret globally that South Africa is an exceptional hiking destination. While venues such as Table Mountain are generally well known, there are hundreds of amazing venues across the country to chose from. So the first question a reader may ask is “why would you drive for five hours to hike […]
Where is the line between a hill and a mountain? When is a summit significant and when is it just a high point on a ridge? There is no one correct answer to these questions, and definitions vary from country to country and region to region. In Scotland there is a list of roughly 277 […]
Ga-Monnaasenamoriri, also known as Blouberg, is a 2051m peak with 1014m topographic prominence in Limpopo. It is best known for its multi-pitch climbing routes, but has been on my radar for a number of years due to it being one of the 24 mountains in South Africa with at least 1000m topographic prominence. I had […]
In 2022, after completing the Three Passes Circuit in the Everest Region, I went to the Annapurna Region to complete the Annapurna Sanctuary hike. About 8 weeks later, the exact aircraft I had flown in crashed just short of Pokhara Airport in the worst Nepali aviation disaster in over 30 years. Coming into land at […]
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