Insurance vending machines for travelers at Haneda Airport (below) making it possible to sign up for snow-sports insurance at that moment where your meet the …
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With cold + windchill + exhaustion + worse weather kicking it was probably the closest I’ve been to the edge where you really don’t know how it’s all going to turn out and the clock is ticking. There was a point where I’d trekked off to scout what was to be another failed route…
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A week of grid skipping ahead: late night flight to meet our friends in the North, then Shanghai via Tokyo. Photos? Last weeks view atop …
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I’ve previously written about Dopplr a service that pitches itself in part, on highlighting coincidences and facilitating communication between you and your extended, well traveled …
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500 Yen buys a donation to the spirit of the mountain on a day where every ounce of energy and smarts was needed to make …
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Somewhere down there in the haze that is Kabul is my home for the foreseeable. This visit is an opportunity look beyond what ends up in …
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It’s raining hard by the time I manage to find the start of the trail, tantalisingly located next to the local onsen. Two old dears, …
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As you climb the bamboo fields become pine forest and eventually rock face, the gravel turns to ice and snow. Golden week here in Japan …
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Late last week tried to get a sense of the snow conditions on the top of Mount Fuji – the official climbing season starts in …
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