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  • Venezuelan Climbs
    Stephen Platt
    I lived in Venezuela with my family for five years. Venezuela is geographically varied and, although climbing wasn’t that developed in 1970, there were plenty of opportunities to explore and climb new routes. This journal describes some of these climbing areas.The Avila is the 9000-foot mountain range between Caracas and the Caribbean coast. Although close to the capital and wi...
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  • St Cuthbert’s Way
    Stephen Platt
    St Cuthbert’s Way is a 62-mile (100 km) long-distance trail linking Melrose in the Scottish Borders to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne on the Northumberland coast. Following the present border between England and Scotland, it passes through many places associated with the 7th-century monk St Cuthbert, one of our most revered saints. The walk begins at the abbey ruins of Melrose,...
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  • Alaska
    Stephen Platt
    Alaska is huge and it’s wild. Its native name means 'Great Country'. The name conjured up thoughts of Jack London’s 'Call of the Wild', gold prospectors and bears, the ice road to Prudhoe Bay and of Denali, the highest mountain in North America. It’s separate from the rest of the United States and only 55 miles from Russia. It’s the largest U.S. state and a quarter is within th...
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  • Scotland
    Scharlie Platt / Stephen Platt
    The Hebrides, or more specifically the Outer Hebrides, are an archipelago of islands off the west coast of mainland Scotland. The islands are Gaelic speaking and their name Na h-Eileannan an Lar is Western Isles in Gaelic. They were Norse for 400 years until the treaty of Perth transferred them to Scotland in 1266. They had always held a strong romantic fascination for us and w...
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  • Corsica Mare e Monte and Sardinia
    Stephen Platt
    The Mare e Monte Nord traverses Corsica from sea to sea. It’s 76 miles long (123km), involves over 6500 metres of ascent. I took me 9 days. Sardinia lies only 7 miles south of Corsica across the Strait of Bonifacio. Although Corsica is French and Sardinia is Italian, they share many characteristics. Geologically and culturally the islands are very similar. Their history, ethn...
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    30,97 €

  • France
    Stephen Platt
    The Massif Central is a highland in south-central France and historically the region, the Auverne, was a barrier. It was formed by ancient volcanic activity over many ages and was raised by the Alpine and Pyrenean uplifts. The rock is granite and metamorphic and the region contain hundreds of extinct volcanos or Puys.I was unfamiliar with the region and had never considered v...
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    22,89 €

  • France
    Scharlie Platt / Stephen Platt
    In the summer of 1995 we made an epic 2000 mile journey to the Alps and back, keeping to the high passes that border Italy and Switzerland. It was soon after I’d passed my test and bought a motor bike, a 1000cc BMW police bike. We travelled through Burgundy on minor roads down the Yonne Valley from Auxerre to Nolay, where we stayed in a friend’s house both on the journey out a...
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    23,75 €

  • Slovakia
    Stephen Platt
    The High Tatras form part of the Carpathian mountain range lying between Poland and Slovakia. The Tatra National Park (Tatranský národný) was founded in 1948. There are 29 peaks over 2,500m. I found the name romantic and had wanted to visit them for some time until the opportunity arose. Peter, a post-doctoral student at Cambridge, and he and his wife Paulina and baby Palko l...
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  • France
    Scharlie Platt / Stephen Platt
    We had tried twice before to climb Mont Blanc - with Scharlie in 1994 and with my Italian friend Dimitri in 1996. This time I didn’t want to fail again and had asked my friend Roger Mear, a distinguished climber and expeditioner and professional mountain guide, to 'guide' me up the mountain. The plan was to spend a few days climbing with Scharlie to get fit and acclimatise be...
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  • France
    Scharlie Platt / Stephen Platt
    This trip in the early summer of 1994, like other trips we made to the Alps, is a tale of two parts. First we circumnavigated the Vanoise National Park. Created in 1963, it was the first national park in France and is the most bio-diverse with over 5,000 plant species. It borders the Gran Paradiso in Italy and together they form one of the largest protected areas in Europe. We...
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  • Corsica Mare a Mare Nord
    Stephen Platt
    The Mare a Mare Nord traverses Corsica from sea to sea. It’s nearly 100 miles long (152 km), involves nearly 7000 metres of ascent and descent and took me 11 days.I sailed to Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, on the west coast, and the walk climbed thickly wooded valleys before crossing the GR20 and the mountainous backbone of Corsica at the Col de Vergio. From Corte, the town i...
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    28,75 €

  • Offa’s Dyke
    Stephen Platt
    Offa’s Dyke runs along the border between England and Wales. I walked from south to north, from Chepstow to Prestatyn, It took me 12 days. The Path was opened in 1971 by Sir John Hunt, leader of the 1952 Everest Expedition. For over a third of its 177 miles it closely follows the earthworks of Offa’s Dyke. It falls into 5 stages, all different and equally interesting and challe...
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    32,39 €

  • Coast to Coast
    Stephen Platt
    The Coast to Coast was devised by Alfred Wainright and first described in his guide published in 1973. He describes the route in 12 stages; it took me 13 days. I measured it as about 187 miles long (300 km). It traverses three national parks - the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors.The walk is extremely varied passing from the dramatic granite pikes a...
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  • Pennine Way
    Stephen Platt
    The Pennine Way is a tough old walk. It’s about 270 miles long (435 km), was the first National trail in England and is one of the most famous long-distance walks. I did it a couple of weeks before I should have, during the Covid pandemic of 2020 when the guidelines encouraged outdoor exercise but advised against overnight stays away from home. There was no accommodation or cat...
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    30,58 €

  • Italy
    Stephen Platt
    In the summer of 2004 we went climbing with Dimitri in the Valle Garrafano in the Apuane Alps, a limestone area famous for its Carrara marble. Dimitri had been a tenant of ours in Cambridge when he had a sabbatical working in the University Library. We returned the following summer and were whisked off again to the rocky valleys of Italy’s far northwest. We climbed in the Val...
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  • Greece
    Scharlie Platt / Stephen Platt
    In 2003 we went climbing with Muni and Rose to Varasova, a limestone cliff in Greece east of Missolonghi. This 900m high promontory that drops into the Ionian Sea is the home of Greek climbing. There are over 200 routes, some sports routes of 3-4 pitches on the south face near the sea and some much longer trad climbs of up to 18 pitches on the south-west face. The rock is very...
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    16,71 €

  • Russia
    Stephen Platt
    We went to St Petersburg in 2009 for a meeting on an EU project called ISAACabout heritage tourism. The May weather was marvellous and we stayed in a nice hotel next to the Fontanka River in walking distance of Nevsky Prospect.The high spot of our trip was a private tour of the Impressionist paintings inthe Hermitage and Russian art in the Russian Museum. The Hermitage Museum,f...
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  • Terra Firma
    Stephen Platt
    Terra Firma - very large, about which nothing is known', was how Columbus described the mainland of South America. David finds himself on anything but firm ground when he arrives in Venezuela to work for Jordi’s uncle Manuel, the Minister of Planning. Jordi’s exotic family befriend him - the uncles who chased out the last dictator, the grandfather, too old for deep-sea fishing ...
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    23,37 €

  • Vietnam
    Stephen Platt
    went to Vietnam at Vietnam at very short notice to do a job for the World Bank about housing reconstruction after Typhoon Damrey in Novemeber 2017. Others on the team were reporting on transport, irrigation, agriculture, fisheries and economic development.Unfortunately I pulled a calf muscle at dawn on day one running along Nha Trang beach, as shown in the photo, so I didn’t s...
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  • Colombia
    Stephen Platt
    I first met Maria Ximena when she talked about Cazuca, a barrio to the south west of Bogota and I visited Colombia three times. Working with young architects from the Universidad Piloto and a Women’s Foundation we devised plans to improve the neighbourhood. I also describe visits to Cartagena, Santa Marta, Valledupar and the Tayrona National Park where I met and talked to Kogi ...
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  • Thailand
    Stephen Platt
    An account of a trip to Thailand to test using satellite imagery to monitor long-term disaster recovery. We had two or three days in the hot and steamy concrete jungle of Bangkok and then spent a week in Ban Nam Khem, a fishing village on the west coast, that had been badly damaged by the tsunami. We had a day off and visited the fabulous ’James Bond’ island in Phnag Nga Bay ...
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  • Pakistan
    Stephen Platt
    This is an account of a trip with Emily So of Cambridge University in 2006 to theareas affected by the Pakistan earthquake of 8 October 2005. The aim of for Emilywas to conduct a survey of survivors of the earthquake about their injuries as partof her PhD. My aim was to shed light on the factors affecting long-term recoveryafter major disasters.We interviewed people in Islamaba...
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  • China
    Stephen Platt
    his was a culturally sensational trip, yet we only scratched the surface of this ancient empire and ultra modern people’s republic, visiting Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing. China is vast and complex - the world’s most populous country, the second largest in land area, with nearly 300 living languages and 7 mega cities with over 10 million inhabitants. In Shanghai we had a glimp...
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    17,95 €

  • Iceland
    Stephen Platt
    The Laugavegur is one of the big walks. It is the most famous trek in Iceland and crosses other worldly landscapes formed by recent volcanos. I did it from north to south and it runs over 80km from Landmannalauger via Thorsmork to Skogar on the coast. The trail is normally open from late June to mid-August. I started on the 15 June, the first day the bus ran to Landmannalaugar....
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  • New Zealand
    Stephen Platt
    Because of its remoteness, New Zealand was one of the last places to be settled by humans who arrived only 7-800 years ago from Polynesia and founded what today is a strong and highly influential Maori culture. We went to study recovery after the 2012 earthquake and stayed with Scharlie’s cousin John and his wife Mollie in Christchurch. We interviewed key people involved in pla...
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  • Morocco Sahara and Atlas
    Stephen Platt
    We had a trip to Morocco in mind for some years, since Frances, our daughter, went there on buying trips twenty years ago. But this time we visited parts that were new to her. From Fez we crossed the Atlas Mountains and went south into the desert, then west along the mountains to Finnt, across to Marrakesh and back along the northern flank to Fez.I’m glad we went now because Mo...
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  • Iran
    Stephen Platt
    I visited Iran twice: in 2014 and 2015. On the first visit I went to Manjil and Bam, two cities devastated by earthquakes in 1990 and 2003. I wanted to see how they were recovering. It was difficult to get a visa and I had to go to the Iranian Embassy in Istanbul and then to a police station in Tehran to get them extended. It is a great privilege to see a country through the in...
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  • Australia
    Stephen Platt
    Australia is far-flung and until the airplane overcame the tyranny of distance Australia was terra incognita. Aboriginals of Australia are one of the oldest living peoples of the world having occupied the same territory longer than any other human population, about 50,000 years. They believe their ancestors brought the world into being by naming the landscape and the creatures...
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  • Kyrgyzstan
    Stephen Platt
    I went to Kyrgyzstan as part of the EU SENSUM team investigating using remote sensing to map hazards and monitor disaster recovery. We ran a scenario planning game in Bishkek with Emergency personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.Our host takes us to a night club. It’s in a vast concert bunker. We toast each other unmercifully with vodka shots until encouraged onto the dance ...
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  • Venezuela
    Stephen Platt
    We went to Venezuela in 1981 after an expedition we had been invited to join fell through. So we turned our attention to Ilu Tepuy, an unclimbed sandstone butte in the Gran Sabana north west of Roraima. At first, we didn’t think of the mountain in a proprietary way. We were looking for a mountain, any mountain really, that had not been climbed and Ilu Tepuy seemed to offer the...
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