Adventure Travel Blogs

Just returned from the icy wilderness of Ladakh in winter with a group of 15 like minded people searching for the holy grail of big cats - the elusive Snow Leopard. Well what a trip and what luck - we had 16 hours of watching the beautiful animals (some in the group had 20 hours of sightings). We saw a mother and her young cub and a male and female. The weather was great - sunshine and snow and clear stary freezing nights - perfect training!!!!

Off to Nepal now and looking forward to Ap...

The group is now coming together and final preparations are underway around the world. We have team members from the UK, USA and Holland. Some are off preparing on volcanoes in South America, some skiing, some winter climbing on Mount Toubkal in Morocco. I mayself have been in the gym for the last 2 months spinning and combating. Now I am off to Ladakh in winter. The temperatures there will be down to minus 25C at night! and up to a chilly minus 4C in the day - probably good training for the col...

Welcome to the Everest North Col Expedition blog. In April 2013 Exodus will be running an iconic climb to the North Col of Everest (7,066m), which will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest in 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing. 

During the next few weeks the group will be making their final preparations getting fit and getting gear together. Hopefully they will join in the blog and let you know how they progessing.

The team will be arriving in Kathmandu o...

Firstly I must say thank you to Her Majesty for getting me the day off work today - believe me, I made the most of it.  The weather was superb for cycling - sunny but not too hot, a cool wind but not too strong.

I did my first 50-miler today - actually it was 51.58 miles if I believe my bike computer, and 51.80 miles if I believe my GPS.  I think the GPS will always be more accurate ;-)  I also apparently burnt off 2500... shame I've probably just eaten twice that.

I took in t...

Well the sun has finally put in an appearance - but not enough for me to brave the short sleeves and shorts.  I was however brave enough to venture out around Edinburgh/West Lothian where there are real hills (well, sort of minor inclines really when compared to the Tibetan ascents).

A 30-mile round trip in the sun, with a stop off at the ice-cream shop... what more can a girl want?

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