Were I able to time-travel I'd enjoy following Alexandra David-Neel's route across 1930s Tibet. What do you still dream of doing that you haven’t yet done?Īt 84 it would be unrealistic to dream about the future. Notebooks, pens and a very light but warm sleeping-bag. What’s always in your bag – no matter what adventure you’re on? My year's residence in Manningham (Bradford) and Handsworth (Birmingham) while collecting material for a book about race relations in England during the mid 1980s. My three month solo trek with a pack-mule from Asmara to Addis Ababa through the Simien Mountains at a time (1967) when there were no motor roads or towns along my route.

Never felt like that, probably because I thought a lot about each journey before setting off. Tell us about a time when you felt like walking away from an adventure? Has anyone ever told you that you won’t make it? Is there one person you’ve met who you feel you were so lucky to connect with?Ī Tibetan lama who occupied the room below mine a few miles from what was then (1965) the little town of Pokhara, accessible only on foot or by air via a weekly flight from Kathmandu. In my tent on an uninhabited stretch of high puna in the Peruvian Andes when I woke as the sun was rising over a crenulated 20,000ft summit in the near distance. Learning to control the emotions aroused by the Israeli government's consistent ill-treatment of the dispossessed Palestinians. What’s been the biggest challenge you’ve faced on a journey?

OL111807W Page_number_confidence 88.64 Pages 266 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210415074053 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 772 Scandate 20210406141322 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0879512369 Tts_version 4.What do you dream of for our world in the future?Ī generation that takes climate change seriously and tailors its life-style accordingly.

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