Rum’s Dazzling Dark Skies: Film Collaboration Between Me, Fly Films UK and Isle of Rum Community Out Now!
During 2024 the Isle of Rum, off the coast of Scotland, achieved something quite remarkable: it became just the second […]
Peru: to the Nazca Lines and Lake Titicaca for the Latest Lonely Planet Guidebook
Goodness knows how many miles, by shaky internal flight and bumpy road and sputtering boat trip and spectacular mountain hike, […]
Finland: A First-Time Guide – Article for Lonely Planet
Sometimes you just want to know the nuts and bolts of a country – when to go, why to go, […]
The UK’s Best Solo Hikes – Feature for i Paper
It’s all very well, as the weather warms and the flowers prettify the hedgerows again, to talk about getting out […]
New Year, New Islands: The Isles Awaiting on Sweden’s Latest Long-Distance Hiking Trail – Articles for the BBC, i Paper & i Weekend
New year, new island? An isle – or ten – that you previously hadn’t visited or even conceived of visiting […]
Pole Position: The Coldest Places on Earth – my Latest for Lonely Planet
Not everyone starts tingling with excitement at the idea of Arctic or Antarctic temperatures for their next trip away. I […]
Meditations on the Isle of Rum
Picture this. A beach – not sand but weather-strewn slate-grey and rose-pink shingle. Unkempt-looking, if truth be told: a flurry […]
Springwatch: Great British Walks – 100 Wildlife Walks Through Our Beautiful Countryside – My Latest Book is Out Now!
My latest book is, as of May 11, officially in the shops and online – and it’s a particularly special […]
Solo Hiking Around Iceland’s Hornstrandir – Europe’s Last True Wilderness – Article for Flashpack
Being a lover of extremes, when the opportunity came up to trek around Iceland’s Hornstrandir Peninsula late last summer, I […]
Turf Houses: Iceland’s Original ‘Green’ Buildings – Feature for the BBC
Journey far enough into the northwest of Iceland and you come to a place beyond the volcanic rock: a green, […]
Glamping: Nights Spent Under Starry Skies – On Location in Northern Ireland Making a Film for Deutsche Welle
A day’s shoot in Northern Ireland in August at a glamping site on the shores of Lough Erne and this […]
Hiking Coast-to-Coast Across Scotland: With No Trail – Feature for Adventure.com
With all the long-distance walking routes there are now, it’s hard to conceive of why, in winsome walker-friendly Europe, one […]
Bothy Bagging – Feature for Walk Magazine
Autumn’s properly upon us, along with the icier weather, so how to explore the Great Outdoors when the temperatures up […]
Uttermost Ends of the Earth? My Work for Hiking/Trail Running Site GetSweatGo on Some of My All-time Favourite Treks
The classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Hiking Eastern Europe’s most mountainous terrain, the High Tatras in Slovakia. […]
Is This Peru’s Next Inca Trail? – Article for Adventure.com
Happy 2019. When people ask me what my 2018 highlight was travel-wise, the hike to Choquequirao, billed as Peru’s Next […]
How Tough Can Britain’s Toughest Trail Be? – Article for Adventure.com
There were a spate of late Victorian adventurers, Henry Savage Landor springing to mind, who were not content with seeking […]
Luke and his Words... 