Cycling Japan
Hand-Cycling through Japan – A Land of Contrasts
When a Japanese friend suggested cycling the length of Japan, I automatically said “yes”. This Spring, we embarked on the 3800 km journey through the archipelago. Luckily, a big chunk of this is water, so the cycling was little over 2000 km, but I seemed to have ignored the fact that Japan is
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1400 Kilometres from Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan
The Karakoram Highway has to rank as the most spectacular road in the world…it’s rubble strewn hairpins wind through glacier-draped summits – an exciting descent on anything with wheels, but especially a tandem recumbent and mountain bikes with a trailer and wheelchair balanced behind!
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Finding a way into the wilderness via the Inside Passage
“Paddle hard left!” Suresh called from the aft cockpit, fighting to make his voice heard through the crashing surf. Alan and Tony shouted to us from the beach, “Nose in behind ... ” but their voices were lost in the rumble of surf-tumbled pebbles. Spray washed the white salty marks off my spray
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On Top of the World on a handbike
At the top of the Taglang La, the highest of the five mountain passes at 5328 metres (17480 ft) a road sign, surrounded by colourful prayer flags, exclaims “Unbelievable! Is it not”. The fact that a road has been carved from India through this harsh high desert region of the Himalayas to the
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Crossing the largest island on the Earth by ski
It was my first real attempt at cross-country skiing, and my Finnish friend Pasi had borrowed a special sit-ski, designed for someone like me to use. It didn’t fit well. To improve it, we improvised with duct tape, rope, and a kiddy’s plastic sledge, which made the sit-ski look more like an
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Four thousand pull of to scale Yosemite's El Capitain
Here's a quick run down of my and Karen Darke's trip to Yosemite in September/October where we made a four day ascent of Zodiac (A/C2+).
After Greenland (a 600 km ski from coast to coast that took 28 days), we started wondering about El Cap. One problem was that the four paraplegic climbers
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