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Team Snakedance in the Iron Valley
Such a great week and what great team. Close encounters with Tommy the dog and others, lizards, snakes and more flowers than you could shake a stick at. Missed ferries and lost bags. There was even an Edwardian gentleman!
Team Snakedance had a great week of walking and even more great fun with Mountain Experience and Explore! on the Amalfi coast. See you next year?
Brooding clouds above the Iron Valley
Another great week, more great walks!
This last week was filled with sunshine, but heavy sea swells prevented our weekly sailing to Capri. Nevertheless, this weeks team had a great time and broke new ground with a walk to Minori and time spent exploring Ravello.
Descending the path toward Minori
All team members visited the fantastic ruins at Pompeii or Herculaneum, and many of them ascended Vesuvius. Seven intrepid trekkers reached the far side of the Valle de Ferrierre National Reserve, described as “One of the best walks I’ve ever done” by Libby G.
Mountain Experience hope to work with you all again in the future.
All good things come to an end
What a great first week of this year’s Amalfi Walks. Mountain Experience, working with Explore! and Mont Blanc Adventures had a week of fantastic scenery, great food and great company.
The weather flirted with rain, but was never so bad that it got in the way. Next week should see more sun and just as much fun. Bring it on!
Descending into the Agerola basin on Amalfi walks.
8,800ks done. Bring it on 2016!
What a great road trip! We drove 8,800km (5,500 miles) through England, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Gibraltar. Four ferries, many amazing camping spots and a few climbs thrown in for good measure. What a great start to 2016. Here’s to more adventures this year.
Nadolig Llawen! Merry Christmas!
Mountain Experience are about to embark on the southern migration for the winter! We hope to keep you updated on all our adventures if WiFi will permit us.
Nodolig Llawen! Merry Christmas! Best wishes for your adventures off the beaten track in 2016
Everest Base Camp by the long way round.
As it’s the EBC season, some readers may like to see this article on last year’s trip there.
The view to Gokyo from the Renjo La.
Everest is the high peak on the left above the lake.
An account of a Jagged Globe Trek in October 2014, with Nigel and Lisa, Hugh and Richard, Lianne and David, Helen, Colin, Chris, Phil and Alex the trek leader; Dawa the sirdar and Nuru his deputy; Lots of porters, a cook team and a few yaks!
Monday 13th October
This wasn’t my first time to do this, but I still felt the shock as the alarm woke me at 0350hrs in the morning. We were at The Summit Hotel in Kathmandu and our plan was to get an early start to beat the bad weather before it compromised any of the flights into Lukla. The usual scenes of chaos gripped the airport as people weighed, packed and repacked their kit for the Twin Otter flight into what has been dubbed…
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Testing weather conditions for the latest NNAS Silver assessment.
A day of great visibility and autumn colours was followed by another with hill fog that made navigating much harder for the latest NNAS students. Amalfi Veterans Team 1 were not deterred though and did a great job leading the team across the difficult terrain during their assessment.
Students hand railing the edge of the escarpment
During Day 1 the team learned the skills they would need to navigate successfully and get off the beaten track and enjoyed views that stretched for miles!
Students take a bearing to cross a featureless piece of ground
Day 2 was completely different with very poor visibility and damp weather. Throughout the day the students remained positive and ensured they used the skills they had learned to navigate to given places with pinpoint accuracy.
All four candidates were successful in achieving their Silver Navigator award. “What a great course” said Dawn G. “I’ll definitely be using these skills on future walks.”
Amalfi veterans Team 1. The weather meant that visibility was sometimes as low as 15metres.
Team Ultimo finish this year’s season for Mountain Experience on the Amalfi coast.
Mountain Experience finished this year’s expedition season with a final week on the beautiful Amalfi coast. Just south of Naples, the region has stunning scenery, ancient monuments and world class food. Team Ultimo indulged in all of that! We were really fortunate with the weather, just missing the heavy rain wherever we went. Occasionally the views were wreathed in cloud, but without fail, would always open up for us at some stage.
The team enjoying their lunch after the rain.
Team Ultimo enjoyed a fabulous view toward Ravello after dodging the storms.
What a great way to end the year’s travels!
Another great week finishes on the Amalfi coast for Team Quindici!
In conjunction with Explore! Mountain Experience have finished another great week of walking on the Amalfi Coast.
Team Quindici on the Walk of the Gods.
Team Quindici enjoyed great weather, fantastic food and stunning scenery, all finished off with a spell on the beach, gelato or a few glasses of wine. If that wasn’t enough, there were goats, left handed squirrels and mysterious small piles of pebbles thrown into the mix for good measure. A brilliant week!
Fiery red on the Amalfi coast
It’s been an exciting week with yet more wildfires on the Amalfi coast. Helicopters and sea planes have been dumping water onto brush fires high on the steep mountains that overlook the sea, whilst roads have been closed due to safety concerns.
But that didn’t stop the latest Explore! team from enjoying the stunning scenery, plentiful wine and great food that is on offer here. 15 clients trekked into the National Park, along the stunning coastal clifftop path, down ancient steps to Amalfi, across Pompei’s iconic streets and to the summit of Vesuvius. A hot week indeed!
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