Category Archives: Expeditions

Donga Fight

Continued from main Omo Valley expedition page

I was noticed. A bullet fizzed past my head. It was not meant to harm, but only as an intimidation from a warrior who wanted to signal that I was to stay back. I saw a warband coming towards me holding their victor up on their shoulders and I […]

The Lost World

By the late afternoon most had forgotten I was there and, having left their weapons on the ground and taking huge gulps of the homemade beer, were now rather drunk. These men of the village were sitting in a clearing talking, passing around calabashes full to the brim with sorghum beer. A few were building […]

Amongst the Touareg

In 2008 I set out to cross the Sahara travelling as one of the Touareg nomads who live there and to experience their threatened lifestyle first hand. Armed with a sword and some schoolboy French I became the first westerner in living memory to cross the Tanezrouft area of the Sahara in Algeria by camel. […]

Tibesti Expedition Update

If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
It’s only a few days before I catch my flight to N’Djamena, the capital of Chad to start my next expedition. I have never been to Chad. I don’t know what it will be like as a country, although I have an […]