After the splendours of the Himalayas, I decided to go to what is considered by many to be another one of the World’s Best Treks, the Overland Track in Tasmania. I again booked through World …
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Author: The Walking Man Down Under
Everest Base Camp, Nepal
I always said “Why go to Everest Base Camp if you were not going to climb the mountain?” I had previously visited Nepal in the late 1970’s when I had completed the Overland or Hippie …
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From the Top of Africa, to the Red Centre When I lived and worked in Alice Springs, my wife and I would most evenings head off to the Telegraph Station and hike the trails there. …
Continue readingClimbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania – Part 2
After not achieving my goal of reaching Uhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro, I book to go back in February 2016. This time I booked with a company called Climbing KILIMANJARO, based in Perth, Australia. I …
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After completing the Kokoda Trail and having returned to Australia, my wife asked me, “So what’s next?” I had always wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and that was my answer. So in February …
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Having lived and worked in Port Moresby for 12 years, in May 2012 I finally signed up with a Cairns based company called Kokoda Track Experience to walk the Kokoda Track. The trek was for …
Continue readingClimbing Mount Wilhem, Papua New Guinea
On the 13th September 2008, three of us boarded an Air Niugini flight from Port Moresby to Kundiawa in the Highlands of PNG. We were then picked up and driven to Betty’s Lodge for an …
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