The title might sound like it’s hypothetical but it is the actual question I have been pondering over the last few weeks. read more
I think of Tenerife as a place where people go on the sort of holidays that scare me.
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Yarchen Gar was such an unexpected place. We had never even heard of it only a week ago and here we were, two of the very few foreigners to have seen and stayed in the place. It is described as the world’s largest Monastery with 8,000 Nuns staying here but also about 2,000 Monks, quite simply it’s a huge sea of Burgundy robes! read more
From the Tibetan city of Garze we headed West towards the biggest climb we’ve ever undertaken, we both wondered nervously how would we cope riding at over 5000m. read more
A casual look at the weather revealed a storm was coming towards Scotland, the tail end of a hurricane lashing the US east coast. A normal person would stay at home and watch some TV. I thought why not ride to a bothy perched on the cliffs on the Isle of Skye and watch the wind and rain lash in, it will be super cozy. A perfect plan, expect I didn’t appreciate I would have to ride through the storm to get there….. read more
Weekend bikepacking is all about challenging how light you can get away with, read more
Cycling across the rough high desert roads of the Pamir mountains was the perfect occasion to use a complete bike packing setup aka: the ‘full Apidura’. In this blog I will go through every bag I used and what I carried in them read more
At this point in time we felt about as far away from the lush green rolling hills of Scotland however we only had a week to get back there. First we had to cross 1000km of desert, read more
The next leg of our cycling trip saw us biking alongside the River Panj for several days. The Panj is a river in a remote part of the world that undertakes a beautifully varied journey: it starts among the high glaciers of the Big Pamir, a triangle of extremely mountainous land bordering China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It then heads south through the wide braided plains of the Wakhan corridor, before it narrows and steepens into whitewater rapids toward Khorog and beyond to Uzbekistan. For the stretch we cycled it also signifies the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. read more
As we left Lake Karakul in Tajikistan we learnt Panada’s struggle at altitude. read more
In 2014 while cycling to China, I was gutted to miss one of the most beautiful and intriguing parts of central Asia. I didn’t take this route through a combination of trying read more