In 2012, I went to Nepal to run the Manaslu Mountain Trail Race. To say it didn’t go quite according to plan would be a bit of an understatement. But hey, shit happens, and it made for some fairly interesting videos. Here’s a bunch of ‘webisodes’ about what went up, and down.
Aus Geo Finalist… and how about that.
Rightio, so every year I go along to the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year finalist exhibition at the SA Museum and think “fuck, how cool would it be to get a finalist?” And most years I enter a few pics with hopeless optimism and get the ‘tough titties your photos are shitty’ email reply. And that’s OK. These competitions suck anyway. You know, unless you actually get a finalist. Then they suck a lot less.
Five (Minus four of them) Peaks
I’ve run this event quite a few times so I know there’s a pretty decent hill at about he 5km mark and am prepared. To walk. Which I do. And to be perfectly honest, the race goes pretty smoothly for quite a few of the next kms until I start hallucinating that I can hear bagpipes.
Conquer the Summit. And the Portaloo.
I’ve run this event quite a few times so I know there’s a pretty decent hill at about he 5km mark and am prepared. To walk. Which I do. And to be perfectly honest, the race goes pretty smoothly for quite a few of the next kms until I start hallucinating that I can hear bagpipes.