Tag Archives: nature

W-Trek Torres Del Paine National Park

I left El Calafate early on a bus headed for Puerto Natales. This meant leaving Argentina and making my way to Chile. I had completed the usual cross-border online forms, screenshot the QR codes, and was good to go. On the bus, I would bump into an Australian family from the Antarctica trip. This was […]

Pakistan trip part 2: Rakaposhi Basecamp

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. […]

Pakistan trip part 1: Nanga Parbat Basecamp

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 […]