Our two-day Salkantay Trek in Peru was an unforgettable adventure of breathtaking mountains, ancient Inca engineering and glacial lakes. From sleeping beneath the stars at Sky Camp to battling altitude sickness and climbing towards Salkantay Pass, we share our best and hardest moments in the Andes.
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Standing in the Greenland National Museum in Nuuk recently, looking at the old qajaqs displayed there, brought home just how extraordinary these craft really are. To a modern sea kayaker they are immediately recognisable as ancestors of our own boats, yet they were created for a purpose far removed from recreational paddling. The Greenland qajaq was not primarily designed to get someone from A to B. It was a highly sophisticated piece of survival technology.
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After travelling through remote fjords, past glaciers and icebergs, and visiting some tiny communities along the Greenlandic coast, arriving in Sisimiut feels surprisingly urban. This is Greenland’s second-largest town, with around 5,500 inhabitants, yet it still sits in a landscape that would be considered wilderness almost anywhere else. Mountains rise directly behind the houses, the …
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Port Leopold Franklin Expedition
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Qikiqtarjuaq: Gateway to the Wild Mountains of Baffin Island
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Discover Prince Leopold Island in Nunavut, where hundreds of thousands of murres, fulmars, kittiwakes and guillemots breed on spectacular High Arctic cliffs.
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Isabella Bay: In the Realm of the Bowhead Whale
We never entered Isabella Bay. Instead, our expedition ship cruised past the entrance, looking into a huge sweep of Arctic coastline on the northeastern side of Baffin Island. There was no sea kayaking here and no close approach into the bay itself, and there was a very good reason for that.
Explore Radstock Bay on Devon Island, home to remarkable Thule Inuit winter houses built from stone, turf and whale bone beneath spectacular Caswall Tower.
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Discover 50+ surprising things about the Falkland Islands, from penguins, whaling and wildlife to quirky laws, local life, FIGAS, postcodes and the stories I discovered while living there.
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Duart Bay: Sea Kayaking into a Scottish Corner of Baffin Island. There are famous places in the Canadian Arctic – names such as Beechey Island, Lancaster Sound and Pond Inlet that appear repeatedly in books about exploration, wildlife and the search for the Northwest Passage. And then there are places that barely appear on a conventional map. Duart Bay, tucked away in Dexterity Fiord on the spectacular eastern coast of Baffin Island, is one of them.
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