Oct 28, 20188 minNOTES FROM NASSAU1: The Arrival It wasn't until days later, when a local Bahamian (wearing long black pants, shiny black shoes, and a dress shirt with the...
Mar 25, 20182 minVILLARET DU NIALThese tracks were nonexistent before we arrived. This is the road (if I can call it that) we took down every morning and back up to get...
Mar 18, 20181 minHIGH ALTITUDEJust under 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) altitude, a few degrees below zero, clear blue sky. A light breeze comes around every so often,...
Mar 11, 20181 minTHE MORNINGAvalanche canons were sounding before our alarms. A dull but heavy bang coming from a distance and echoing between the mountains around...
Mar 4, 20182 minX MARKS THE SPOTYou will pass a large dam on your right, after which you'll enter a series of tunnels. This is the first line of the directions we...
Feb 25, 20182 minROAD INTO THE MOUNTAINSWe finally landed in the Alps. Well... not quite. The 7-hour transatlantic flight brought us into Lyon, the nearest French city with an...