Sitting in my sleeping bag, gazing across the rocky landscape shrouded in heavy cloud, I’m enjoying a hot breakfast. The more you eat the lighter your pack gets, and almost half my food supplies have gone. The view across the […]
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I’m already half-awake as Alice drags her sleeping bag into the dorm, having switched rooms in the night due to Michael’s snoring. I sleep through anything. She beckons me to the window to watch a reindeer circling the hut in
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5am and stretching my legs down by the lake. It’s chilly but dry. Everyone else is asleep, so time for a quick wash in the freezing water before enjoying the warmth of a coffee and the changing colours of distant
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Running 103 miles from Kangerlussuaq, just west of the Greenland ice sheet, to Sisimiut on the coast, with no phone signal or resupply points — nothing except what you can carry. Welcome to the Arctic Circle Trail (“ACT”). After a
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A small herd of deer stand motionless, staring through the Scots pines in the silent 7am Rendlesham Forest. I move and they scatter. Emerging from the forest, I’m not quite sure what to make of the statue at Capel St
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I wake early around 5am, excited about the day ahead. I’ve booked a ticket to visit the Orford Ness National Nature Reserve, home to remnants of buildings used at the height of the Cold War by the Atomic Weapons Research
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