Every item in the running trailer (which we´ve pulled for over 5000 miles through snow, driving rain, clagging mud) is crucial. It could be no other way. Any superflous object means extra stess on our knees, joints, back. Especially scaling the Andes, or now in the Amazon basin running up and down, up and down, …
Una nuez ovalada color chocolate. La nuez de Pará, o Coquito del Brasil para algunos. Una de las mejores nueces. Llena de proteínas, calcio, hierro, selenio y otra cantidad de riquezas, un mordisco cremoso y ya estás sirviéndote otra. Pero, espera un minuto. No pongas la mano en el bol todavía. Viajemos con esa nuez …
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. But hang on. Stop there. Your hand hovers over the bowl? It’s time to travel with that Brazil nut, to see life as …
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Question from 8 year old, George, Morpeth, Northumberland. Thank you very much! Hmm. Now this is a particularly tricky question for two people who love wildlife and have a particular soft-soft for the feathered variety! Especially, as along the course of the thousands of miles that we have run, it has been birds more than anything …
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Click here to learn more about the threat of mega dams in Brazil with International Rivers. Click here to learn about the work Amazon Watch are doing about the current threat of the Belo Monte Reserve. Click here to watch a film about the Belo Monte dam and the Indigenous People whose land the dam …
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Congratulations to Douglas Anderson and the Lean-Swadlings for winning !! We so appreciate everybody’s incredibly generous ticket purchases.
Amazing news! After lending a favourable ear to our desperate appeals for extra funds to help cover the remaining expedition costs, we have received top-up grants from
Comunicada de Prensa La aventurera pareja británica de corredores, Katharine y David Lowrie, esperan llegar corriendo al libro de records, cuando completen los difíciles 1910 Km. corriendo a través de Bolivia, un país 4 veces más grande que Gran Bretaña. Esta es la primera vez que se intenta algo así. Dada la vastedad de áreas …
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Mientras escribo, la lluvia cae a raudales sobre el techo de paja del hospedaje, recordándome que tal vez la estación seca no se ha dado cuenta de que ha llegado. Y también nos recuerda que la decisión que tomamos de desviarnos unos 270 Km de la ruta para evitar los humedales inundados en la parte …
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Clouds of butterflies, armies of leaf-cutter ants, stinging wasps, tiny black or yellow salt loving bees, swarms of midges and batallions of termites. These have been