When to blog and when to stop
It would be both foolhardy, misguided and a bit daft to believe that running this website was a selfless endeavor. That blogging about the ‘things I get up to’ were so noteworthy..
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Friday Photo: Rain in the Amazon
We visited the Amazon in the dry season. Every day the water levels in the lakes and rivers would drop several inches, as daytime temperatures soared to the high thirties..
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A small corner of the Amazon
If I were to say the word ‘rainforest’ what normally springs to mind is an endless expanse of untamed wilderness..
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Friday Photo: Adolfo
Without the help and support of local field guides, our work in the Amazon simply could not have happened. This is Adolfo, aged 64, he comes from a village on the edge of the Pacaya-Samiria reserve..
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Friday Photo: Scott Centenary Reccy
Early in July last year I headed up to John O’Groats, the anticipated start of the Scott Centenary Sledge Pull. The plan was for a nation wide relay..
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Is there anything left to explore?
November saw one of the expedition and fieldwork highlights of the year, the annual Explore weekend at the Royal Geographical Society. .
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Friday Photo: Amazon from above
This was my first view of the Amazon and it didn’t disappoint. I don’t deny many of the negative headlines of deforestation and biodiversity loss, but I can happily report..
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Empty Quarter Expedition: Kit
An expedition doesn’t start in the field. It begins months (probably years) before with hushed conversations, excitable research and lists, lists, lists..
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I’ve decided to start sending out a newsletter, with monthly updates from this site and the projects I’m working on..
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Friday Photo: Blue Wildebeest
Yesterday, for the first time in two months, I woke up in frosty England, a world away from Africa. Having grown up in the urban wilderness of North Essex..
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