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On our annual drive north from Queenstown, we met up with some friends who just happened to be on a mission to summit a mountain in the Arthurs Pass.
Arriving to Narvik in the early hours of the morning we didn’t know what to expect stumbling down to meet Micke Ekenstam for breakfast and a briefing of the area.
After a brief tease of NZ summer we were leaving on a jet plane to Vancouver Canada. It was early February and we were straight off the plane on to skis touring to a back country hut.
This Northern Winter for me started late and was thwart with injury, work and time consuming travel. Yet somehow, it was still fun, adventurous, productive and full of great skiing!
I rolled into NZ on the 1st of August fresh from Corsica and a taste of summer. Off the back of the Austrian winter I had just had 20 pages of publishings of my skiing and 2 double page spreads published of my photographs – things were going well!
After my eventful Austrian Winter things did not slow down, I went straight to Chamonix, London, Morocco, Isle of Wight & Corsica before rolling straight into the NZ winter. Busy times.
November was full of great preseason skiing and a tough month to follow but December kicked off witha bang!
I arrived in Innsbruck, on the 22nd of October and really did not expect to really be skiing until December. With most resorts still not open I have somehow managed to have my best October/November of skiing ever!
I have just returned from a 3 month trip to NZ based out of Queenstown - as it turns out home is a cool place to visit!
At about 5.30 on Monday night I got a phone call from Jeremy Lyttle, a renowned heavy hitting mountain biker and keen ski mountaineer.
We mountain biked, road biked, wake boarded, paddle boarded, sailed the English Channel, sailed in dinghies, managed a forrest, camped, partied, swam in the sea, BBQ'ed on beaches, mad and had a really, REALLY good time.
Innsbruck, Austria is truly a tremendous place! For 3 Months from the end of January I skied and filmed there. I got some great skiing, discovered epic resorts and bc terrain, had some excellent filming opportunities, learnt some Deutsch and made really really good friends
After biking 1273.8km over 26 days and climbing to over 2000m we have finished! This was the hardest week but also the most rewarding. We rode from Batticaloa at sea level to Nuwara Eliya at over 2000m and descended back to Negombo at sea level.
After a 113 km day fighting into the wind we made it to the Karaveddy Preschool! It was an interesting week of biking with muscle cramps, a tooth infection, a gigantic thunderstorm, a mixed religion festival, wild elephants and many interesting places and people.
We have begun our journey around Sri Lanka, 291.3 km biked! It is far to hot, just carrying enough water is hard, even the sea is warm. But the food is epic and cheap and almost every single person smiles and waves - lovely people!
It's funny how the trips where you suffer most seem to be the ones you look back on the fondest... Because after all, this still remains one of my favourite missions.