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 […]
Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph
Hiking across the causeway to Lindisfarne in Northumberland on the St Cuthbert’s Way can seem, from certain angles when the […]
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 […]
A Homage to Scotland’s NW Highlands
In early 2016, for a few very random months, I was lucky enough to live on an estate in Scotland’s […]
Taganana: Tenerife’s Most Tantalising Hike – Article for British Guild of Travel Writers
Appearances are deceptive. I had never imagined, for example, that an island I had long associated with “fun in the […]
Yellowstone: Insider’s Guide – Feature for Lonely Planet
Coming up in 2016 is the centennial of the US National Parks – 100 years of truly wonderful wildernesses […]
Wrath of the Gods: Britain’s Ultimate Hike – Article for Red Bull Adventure
I spent a lot of September doing what I love doing most (besides writing): hiking in a very remote place. […]
Luke and his Words... 