It is a rare treat to watch both the moon set and the sun rise in a single sitting but that is how we started our second day. Twelve hours later we would catch each celestial body in the reverse role but there were many more dunes to cross befor... Read more
Open canoes, kayaks, rafts, stand-up paddle boards… if you fancy a go at an expedition on any of these then below is some advice from fellow Adventurer’s Blogging Chain member Mark Kalch. I normally write intros for the guests provid... Read more
In three weeks’ time I will be back in the UK after five glorious months in Oman. I will be very sad to leave. It is a truly beautiful country with some of the most stunning scenery I have seen anywhere on my travels so far. I would recomm... Read more
Abstract A team of six people completed a climbing expedition in the Quimsa Cruz range of Bolivia – the smallest, lowest and least explored cordillera in Bolivia offering good potential for new alpine-style ascents. We spent three weeks in... Read more
I was amazed that we found it at all. I’d zoomed in as close as possible on Google Earth to trace the fine lines of what looked like a dirt track ending at the western edge of the sand dunes. I jotted down the coordinates, punched them int... Read more
Yesterday afternoon I scrambled to the top of a rocky ridge above the corniche at Mutrah to sit in the sunshine and watch the final stage of the Tour of Oman. A cycling stage race like the Tour de France, the event is organised in part by cyclin... Read more
Last weekend I competed in the 19th annual Wadi Bih relay here in Oman. It was probably the best event I have ever entered. I was in a team of five with Laura and three people from the local Muscat Road Runners club. We had 72km to cover between... Read more
What are you up to this weekend? I will be crossing a desert. Since arriving in Oman I’ve been a little transfixed by the idea of desert travel. It’s not something with which I have any experience but it’s easily romanticised:... Read more
There is no feeling quite like the freedom of standing atop an isolated mountain, nothing between you and the horizon but snow, rock and more mountains. Or perhaps pedalling purposefully along a straight stretch of tarmac, running flat across an... Read more
This weekend I am off to the Musandam Peninsula of Oman. Separated from the rest of the country, it’s a small stretch of land with steep mountains dropping straight to the coast. I’ll also be entering the Wadi Bih Relay Run, a 75km r... Read more
If I were a professional adventurer looking for the perfect property in the twenty-first century, these are the features for which I’d ask from the estate agent: A staircase that allows me to perform chin-ups Walk-in wardrobe for Gore-tex,... Read more
THIS ARTICLE: Was written in 2011 by Sarah Outen after becoming the first woman to row across the Indian Ocean. At the time she was preparing to travel human-powered around the world, a trip that would include rowing across both the Pacific and... Read more
