Africa

Namibia

Astonishing, alien landscapes. A scam artist with a busload of Zimbabwean migrants. The most magical skies my eyes have beheld. The ghastliest tour operators ever. Animal friends for days and days. And perhaps the worst place on the planet to be plant-based. My time in Namibia was a tale of maddeningly wild contrasts – though […]

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Mount Kilimanjaro

I’ve been fortunate enough to have suffered a whole array of near-death experiences at this stage in life. And of all those, summiting Kilimanjaro is the one that featured the most prolonged physical agony – but it’s also the one that I cherish most, and perhaps the only one that I look back upon with

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