Our little car chugged through the mist. In the summer, this mountain pass overflows with cyclists–the legendary route up the Col de la Madeleine is amongst the steepest and most challenging in the Tour de France. The road was empty though in the October chill and as we ascended a […]
We had one very unimportant question. So unimportant—and yet precise—a question, in fact, that we might be the very first people in history ever to have asked it. Does homemade apple tart taste nicer when eaten at 8202 feet? There was only one way to find out. We started our […]
I’ve always wanted to sleep in a hammock on my own in the rainforest—it looks so cool in that “Filmmaker Diaries” bit at the end of nature documentaries. Last night I came the closest I’ve ever come to fulfilling that dream. But then it all went wrong. The day before, […]
As a general rule, climbing tall things is fun. When those tall things happen to be slap bang in the middle of a rainforest…well these are the best things to climb. Today, Paddy and I headed to a tower we’ve been to many times before to watch the sun rise. […]