Bikepacking: backpacking with a bike. Somewhere between mountain biking and cycle touring, bikepacking comprises overnight trips on singletrack and testing dirt roads. Though a conventional cycle touring setup with panniers is possible, it makes carrying and pushing more difficult, so…
Power to Paron
Laguna Paron is the largest lake in the Cordillera Blanca; but it’s not as vast as it once was. After the devastating earthquake of 1970 the Peruvian Government marked it as one of the lakes whose water level needed to…
Alpamayo: Andean Beauty
Scenically, it doesn’t come much better than a 10 day hike around Alpamayo. Topaz lakes, perfect pyramids of mountains, an uninhabited wilderness where you may be lucky and spy a condor whirring by. We’ll let the photos do the talking.…
Old as the hills: trekking Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz trek made me feel old. It’s the trek the gap year kids do. A beautiful four-day hike that all the tour companies offer, and backpackers, with their £1,000-a-month Peru budgets, lap up. They come, they walk, they…
East Nepal – The end
Please click to see our East Nepal photoset on Flickr. Stats: Lukla to Chiya Bhanjyang Days – 19 Trekking days – 15 Distance – 258km Trekking time – 86hrs Amount climbed -16,450m Passes…