Nigel Vardy has relied on Terra Nova, Wild Country and Extremities kit for decades, so on the anniversary of his life-changing expedition, he heads back to where it all happened. We caught up with him about his incredible story. 25…
Here is the cleaned-up and properly formatted version of this passage. I have de-scrambled the typos, connected the broken words, and organized it into clean paragraphs for seamless reading. Victor Saunders and I had originally planned to climb as a…
Between Islamabad in northern Pakistan and the oasis town of Kashgar in northwest China, there is a road more than 1,000 km long known as the Karakoram Highway. It is a remarkable feat of engineering, which cost the lives of…
The tents were pitched beside a tarn on the broad crest of Flower Ridge. On arrival, we had dumped our sacks and swum in it, savouring the exquisite tingle of cold water on skin. Wow, that section of the scan…
The remote and primordial Likouala Swamps of the Congo Basin cover an area of some 63,000 square kilometres. Home to the little-known Babinga Pygmies and a wealth of exotic fauna and flora, the difficulty of penetrating the swamps has protected…
On October 11 th 1994, Dr Charlie Hornsby and Dr Roddy Kirkwood became the 21st and 22nd Britons to reach the summit of Everest, accompanied by Sherpas Dorje and Dawa Temba. This field report from the Expedition leader, Dr Simon…
The mountain environment and native people are not just an interesting ethnic backdrop to our adventures. Mountains are literally the world’s water towers, and like rainforests and oceans, we cannot afford to ignore our impact on these fragile ecosystems. The…
Read the original report here In August 1986, a five-man British team made the first British ascent of Salcantay (6,271m), the highest peak of the Cordillera Vilcabamba in southern Peru, by a new route up its huge and unclimbed south-west…
