The San Story is an investigative report about the San Bushmen of the Kalahari, how they have been forced off their land by the Botswana but have fought back and recently won back the rights to the land. This is a rare positive story of successful indigenous political activism and ancestral knowledge that may secure […]

Known as the toughest foot-race on earth, 6days, 6+ marathons back-to-back across the Sahara Desert, carrying all your own kit – who in their right mind would want to do this? I ran it to raise money for research into Lupus. Sadly despite good intentions, the Marathon Des Sables became the Marathon Des Sades. Read […]

Expedition to research the Grass Silk Road - one of the greatest communication highways in history – a road, last travelled in the 13th Century, that led from Genghis Khan’s capital Karakorum in the steppes in Mongolia across the Gobi Desert to Xanadu, Kublai’s Khan’s pleasure dome in China. It became one of the worst […]