Tristan Kennedy

Part bikepacking, part packrafting, bikerafting is opening up new ways to travel through landscapes where roads and rivers meet In the Douglas Adams novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there’s a running joke that the one piece of equipment essential for anyone wanting to travel safely across time and space is a towel. Ford Prefect, one of Adams’ central … [Read more...] about Bikerafting: the new way to travel through landscapes

In a valley in Pakistan's Karakoram range, three alpinists climbed a virgin north face with no fixed ropes – here is their story The Chapursan valley, in the remote northwestern Pakistani region of Gilgit-Baltistan, is not a place that sees many foreign visitors. Surrounded by the jagged, 6,000-metre-plus peaks of the Karakoram, it’s at least a three-day drive from … [Read more...] about Into the unknown

A fresh fall transforms the Italian mountains into a blank canvas – one that reveals chamois tracks, hidden ptarmigan and the quiet rhythms of wildlife that never fled south The snow came early this winter. After two blustery weeks during which the temperatures plummeted and the last leaves of autumn blew off the trees, I woke up one morning towards the end of November … [Read more...] about How to spot wildlife this winter