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5000 Mile Project: When is a wood not a wood?
We have all been taught the merits of planting trees. One by one, “The Man Who Planted Trees” popped fat acorns into the bare hill sides of Provence in Jean Giono's spirtiual tale. Gradually the...
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5000 Mile Project: The Carretera Austral; Can it really be “improved”?
We're Ecologists. Ecologists don't like roads. Yet here we find ourselves running over 5000 miles all points north along every conceivable road that South America can throw at us.
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5000 Mile Project: A chance meeting with the ‘Earth People’ of Patagonia
My husband David and I have been winding through Patagonia's forests and endless pampas on a running expedition from the southern-most tip of South America to the Caribbean Sea;...
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A stitch in time for the Ozone Hole, a cause for celebration?
As I wake up inside our puffy down-feather sleeping bag, the body aches from running a marathon yesterday and the mind aches with the reality that Katharine, my fellow adventure runner and I will do it...
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5000 Mile Project: Stop Bugging Me! Or is it time to reconsider our...
Buzzing in your ear, crawling over your skin, coiled in your boot or lying drunken in a woozy cloud of rotten apples. It takes a particular personality to appreciate the virtues of our six and...
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Why I think Avaaz is pants but bogs are brilliant
Harsh. Really I should like Avaaz, the online petition forum which uses international people-power to lobby for defenceless minorities on a global scale.
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New fencing plan threatens wildlife. Is there is an alternative to this...
Two thousand and eight hundred miles; the equivalent of running between Lands End and John O’Groats three times! This is the distance my husband and I have now run through the continent of South America.
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Roast Armadillo – a recipe for extinction
Salta Province, northern Argentina. Two children stand by the side of the road. A silver car with blackened windows drives passed. The girls wave something at it. The car continues, but suddenly grinds...
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Soya: The Argentinian Gold Rush – Meeting the Winners and Losers
It is Autumn-time south of the equator, and whilst the majority of Argentinians are readying themselves for another Boreal winter, the small town of Las Lajitas is ramping up for its busiest time of year.
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A recipe for a healthy rainforest in a nutshell
A chocolate-coloured, toe-shaped nut. The Brazil nut. One of the finest. Full of protein, calcium, iron, selenium and a whole host of other riches; one creamy crunch and you're reaching for another.
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A visit to the heart of the lungs of the world
A trickle of sweat runs down my chest. Distant rumbles of thunder trigger an Amazon orchestra. Crickets, cicadas and grasshoppers whine in desperate anticipation.
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Eight marathons in eight days and we are in the Caribbean Sea after running...
Fifteen months ago, just as the Olympic gun resonated through the streets of London, bracing ourselves against a blizzard at the southerly-most point of continental South America, we began our race to...
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