My passion for adventure travel was fuelled when I
gave up the world of high finance in London for the high mountains in the Himalayas. After hiking across Australasia
and South Africa I slipped back into city life for a few more years, before packing it in for good. My next move
was to learn Spanish and explore Latin America. I spent 18 months discovering the continent, from Guatemala down
to Patagonia, working for a charity, leading trekking groups, hiking through the Andes, watching the wild-life, and tripping
over people while learning to salsa. After all that I knew the only job for me was in travel.
In 1999 I became a tour leader for a UK adventure tour operator and spent eight years leading trekking holidays across
Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. I've climbed Kilimanjaro 8 times, Aconcagua 3 times, trekked to Everest
Base Camp 5 times and been to Machu Picchu 6 times! I also specialize in leading large charity-fundraising groups to high
summits. I
moved to Vancouver in 2007 and have been working as an Adventure Travel Agent ever since, and continue to lead
several trips per year.
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| Crown Mountain, Vancouver |
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Here is a list of the countries I have visited:
Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Barbados, Belguim, Bolivia,
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador,
Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy,
Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal,
Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, UK, USA, Venezuela,
Vietnam, and Zimbabwe
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| Gelada Baboons, Ethiopia |
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| Lions in the Serengeti, Tanzania |
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Some of the mountains I have climbed include:
Aconcagua, Adams, Aneto, Baker, Chirripo, Cho Oyu (to 7900m), Cotapaxi, Fuji, Hood, Iztacchuatl, Kala Pattar, Kilimanjaro,
Kinabalu, Maglic, La Malinche, Mera Peak, Meru, El Misti, Moldoveanu, Mulhacen, Pico de Orizaba, El Plomo, Rainier,
Ras Dashen, Rinjani, Roraima, Stok Kangri, Tajamulco, Toubkal, Tungurahua, Pico Turquino, and Yaritagate.
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| Girl in Nepal(left), Cho Oyu Camp 7000m (right) |
Some of the other special places I
have visited, worked in, and trekked through include:
The Galapagos Islands; Serengeti, Ngorogoro
Crater, Lake Manyara, and Zanzibar; Krugar Game Reserve; walking in the Okavango Delta; two weeks white-water rafting in Tasmania;
cycling the Gibb River road in NW Australia; diving in the Great Barrier Reef; hiking the Torres del Paine Circuit in Chile,
and the Cerro Torre & Fitzroy Circuit in Argentina; sailing The Beagle Channel; hiking the Inca Trail and Huayhuash
Circuit in Peru; teaching and raising money for homeless children in Guatemala for 5 months; leading charity groups of up
to 40 fundraisers to Kilimanjaro; reaching base camps at Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, Makalu and Kanchenjunga in Nepal.
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