New Books Out
A couple of exciting new titles co-authored by me have hit the shelves in recent months! My favourite of these […]
15 of the Best Autumnal Hiking Holidays – Article for iPaper
Summer has segued into autumn, greenery into burnished oranges, heat into crispness, wildflowers into ripened vines and shiny conkers. From […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Northern Saints Project: Writing into Being the Christian Crossroads of the British Isles
It’s been a quiet three months on this site, but no chance of that being reflected in reality! Requests from […]
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. […]
Trail of the Unexpected – Feature for Adventure Travel
Liechtenstein is, nearly always, unexpected whenever it crops up in conversation. The minuscule size of this nation – just 24km […]
Small Country, Big Hike – Feature on Liechtenstein for N by Norwegian’s Adventure Issue!
A lot of you might have already seen this feature, given Norwegian’s increasingly vast network these days. June is their […]
LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!
Was a huge, huge honour on Tuesday night to pick up the LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year […]
The Best Hikes in Wales (That Aren’t Snowdon) – Article for Rough Guides
I realise I never posted this piece on Wales’ best non-Snowdon hikes, but as it was originally published for the […]
Booming Blaenau: The Welsh Mining Town Transforming Itself into an Adventure Hotspot – Article for Adventure.com
The other week, whilst elsewhere in the country people were enjoying a spot of sunshine, I spent some time […]
Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim
Over the last year or so I’ve been doing a lot of work with leading adventure travel operators Kimkim to […]
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... 