GILES DAWNAY'S BLOG
The Andina Diaries: Getting High on Latin Fever
Tags: Tribe / Global
So after months of planning and preparation, the first Andina group is almost upon us. I arrived back to Peru on Thursday and have been up in the town of Huaraz just checking over some final details before the first group arrives on Saturday. Within hours of being back here …
Read More >>>Maratoni ni Londoni Cici totolo!
So the dust has finally settled after a fantastic day in London. Myself and Bengazi took to the streets for Survival charity. Having worked across the world, most recently in Fiji, Survival (http://www.survival-international.org/“) is a charity that particularly resonates with us as they help try and protect rights of indigenous …
Read More >>>The Andina Diares: If Chris Moyles can climb Kilimanjaro......
Tags: Tribe / Team / Global
then imagine what you could achieve…................
Just for the benefit of those who don’t listen to BBC Radio 1 breakfast show, Chris Moyles is the loud, arrogant, large and opinion dividing presenter (on whether he’s actually a nice bloke) of the show. Over the last few months he and …
Read More >>>Andina Diaries: Damian Aurelio Vargas, a profile of our main guide in the Andes
“Today man goes in search of wild nature to conquer the last corners of his unknown, dark and forgotten soul. The reason is unsaid, the best story that gives illustrates this is the climber, who impassioned by the huge peaks is inspired about what it is to be human…........”
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Read More >>>The Andina Diaries: (Kitchens) Up In Smoke
Tags: Energy / Food / Global
One of the exciting things about the Andina Expedition is the chance to meet and see first hand the incredible people of this Andean region of Peru. However while the chance to meet these ‘gente andina’ we’ll be overwhelmed by their happy and welcoming nature we will also be expose …
Read More >>>The Andina Diaries: Pastoruri Glacier
In the build up to the exciting events planned next summer we’ll be presenting and inviting a series of blogs about where we will be going and some of the wider implications of what is happening in the area that we’ll be going to. In the same way that Vorovoro …
Read More >>>Ni Sa Moce Vorovoro (although i’m hoping ‘Sota Tale’)
Tags: Tribe / Team / Fijian / Fiji / Global
So 3 times a week, we line up on the beach, the sea is calm and a festival of blue and green, the sky is a blue so deep you feel like higher powers must have constructed it. The waves gently lap the shore line and there are a group …
Read More >>>Where did all the nature go!?
Tags: Tribe / Energy / Fiji / Global
‘So. How do you think you’ll be after leaving the island?’
‘yeah, should be ok, having been coming and going like this for a few years now, should be ok’
A rough transcript of many conversations I have had over the last month. Everyone who comes to Vorovoro …
Read More >>>Ironman!
Tags: Tribe / Fiji
Seeing as myself and Ben can’t do anything without trying to better eachother, we originally thought that we should put that to good use by raising some money for charity (Survival charity, protecting indigenous tribes across the world) through some sort of challenge. We were running the 4 peaks every …
Read More >>>What's this island all about then?
Tags: Tribe / Fiji
So with the clock winding down on what has been just an unbelievable experience of living on the island, one of the main things that have occupied my mind recently is what makes this place so special. I have met countless people over the last few months that, the majority …
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