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Patagonian Walkabout

Patagonian Walkabout
Trevor Sumner’s puma was far away. High on a cliff, just inside the Torres Del Paine National Park in southern Chile, a four-legged figure moved to the edge of an ancient fissure and Trevor, perhaps 400m downhill, had spotted it through a tiny pair of binoculars. All week long, he..
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  • 10 May
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Beneath the Frozen Waves

Beneath the Frozen Waves
There are certain mistakes a person should only make once: missing a flight, listening to election pollsters, ordering Hawaiian pizza. To that list I can now add: snorkelling in Antarctica without a fully sealed dry-suit. From the moment I tumbled off the zodiac into near-frozen waters off Gourdin Island I..
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  • 10 Apr
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The Maharajas’ Express

The Maharajas’ Express
People do a lot of waiting in India. Waiting for work, waiting for a blessing, waiting for things to get better. Often they are waiting for a train. Here are some people waiting on a platform: an elderly man with a waterfall beard cascading from his wizened face onto orange..
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  • 15 Mar
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The Cowboy Capital

The Cowboy Capital
I don’t like horses. Never have. This ill feeling started about 25 years ago, when the local racetrack commandeered our school’s football pitch to store horseboxes. We were banished to the playground to make way. I grew up in Ayr, home of Scotland’s largest horse-racing track, and throughout my years at..
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  • 1 Nov
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Choking in China

Choking in China
They say you can see the Great Wall of China from space, but that is not true. You can, however, see something else the Chinese have made: the pollution that hangs over their mega-cities – Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, etc – appears as grey smudges on the green and blue marble of..
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  • 20 Oct
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India: Too Much, Too Soon

India: Too Much, Too Soon
Anoop was making tea when I asked him about Kolkata. Squeezing the bag against the side of his mug, he considered it for a second. “It is…” he paused while he strangled out the last useful dribble, “the poorest, dirtiest city in India.” This was not what I had wanted to..
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  • 13 Sep
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The Swings of Scotland

The Swings of Scotland
Robert Charles McInroy and I have been playing a game together for half our lives. The setting may change, so may the conditions, but the result is always the same: he wins. This is bad news for me as our standard wager is GBP 1 million; I owe him roughly..
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  • 31 Aug
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Pure ‘Shaws

Pure ‘Shaws
Aravind Bremanandam was under a Lada, sheltering from a sandstorm, when he had an idea. Stuck in the Sahara during the Budapest to Bamako Rally he decided that such misery, or adventure, might transplant well to his native India. “People want stupid?” he said to himself. “I’ll show them stupid…”..
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  • 8 Aug
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The Burj is the Word

The Burj is the Word
To arrive at the Dubai Mall in the weeks leading up to Christmas is to arrive at a humungous, perturbed ant nest. Thousands of beings, many agitated, scurry around inspecting, shoving, panicking. Nothing is still. Everything is frantic. You move or you die. The mall, the world’s largest by some measurements, is..
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  • 1 Aug
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Take a Deep Breath

Take a Deep Breath
It’s 1998 in Mrs Stafford’s biology class and I’m feeling pretty good about myself. Our class has been asked to test our lung capacities. The sporty types have higher scores; that Italian kid who can’t find a big enough blazer does not. What? Jodie Nisbet only got 1.9L – boo! She’s..
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Be Careful What You Piss For

Be Careful What You Piss For

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  • 8 Aug
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The Fairmen of the Boards

The Fairmen of the Boards

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  • 19 Mar
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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire

Other
  • 1 Mar
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Hell in Paradise

Hell in Paradise

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  • 26 Feb
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Winter’s Past

Winter’s Past

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