Great Walks

HOME AND AWAY

I was a kid, the founding of the scouting movement, Baden Powell, had a very strong influence on me. Scouts reinforced my desire to have contact with nature and fed my thirst for adventure and being in the mountains. For the first 20 years of my adult life I worked in IT as a

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