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Climbing Mount Toubkal in Winter – A Brief Introduction
We have been leading winter climbs of Mount Toubkal in the Moroccan Atlas mountains for a few years now. It is a superb trip and one that people often sign up for as a great little winter break and...
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Winter Mountaineering Gear Pt 3 – Choosing and Fitting Winter Mountaineering...
Winter is coming! For some people that is not a welcome statement, but for those of us who love winter sports then the first dusting of snow on the high ground gets us excited about getting out on the...
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Winter Mountaineering Gear Pt 2 – Boots for Warmth
Winter is coming! For some people that is not a welcome statement, but for those of us who love winter sports then the first dusting of snow on the high ground gets us excited about getting out on the...
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Winter Mountaineering Gear Pt 1 – Boots for Crampons
Winter is coming! For some people that is not a welcome statement, but for those of us who love winter sports then the first dusting of snow on the high ground gets us excited about getting out on the...
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& the Gold Award for ‘Best for Poverty Reduction’ goes to Adventure Alternative
So yesterday was an exciting day for all of us at Adventure Alternative. Our MD, founder and captain of the AA ship, Gavin Bate, was sat in a packed audience of over 500 tourism professionals, media,...
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‘What kit / gear do I need to climb Kilimanjaro?’
Following on from last weeks blog, ‘How fit do you have to be to climb Kilimanjaro’ I thought we’d cover another popular question ‘What kit do I need to climb Kilimanjaro?’. The most common comment we...
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‘Super-Human’‘Sherpas’?
OK first off, before we get started, a matter of definition that grates every time a newscaster reading their script gets it wrong…. The word ‘Sherpa’ (big ‘S’) does not actually mean someone who...
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Can there be gender equality in the Kenya tourism industry? Eva from AA Kenya...
My names are Evelyn Muronji Walluckano and I’ve worked in the Kenya tourism industry for nine years after I pursued a diploma in food production and a second in tour guiding and administration. When I...
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How fit do I need to be to climb Kilimanjaro?
This is the most commonly asked question I’ve received in the last fourteen years of organising Adventure Alternative climbs of Kilimanjaro. And the answer – well it depends more on your approach to...
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School Expedition now run in Tanzania as well as Kenya
Adventure Alternative have extended their popular ‘Africamp’ School Expedition to Kenya into Tanzania after a very successful trip in the summer of 2014, which saw a team of 22 students and 3 teachers...
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Trekking and Big Society in Morocco
The following is re-produced from an article in the Peterlee Star on September 25th 2013. The author, David Taylor-Gooby, and his brother Peter, joined Adventure Alternative for a summer trek in the...
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Race me to the Pole – the last push
Ahead of relaying the final instalment on Gavin’s trip, we want to thank all supporters of Gavin and Moving Mountains Trust throughout this expedition on behalf of Gavin himself and all of the Moving...
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An Unseasonably Cold Spring
As you may have heard, Adventure Alternative founder and Director, Gavin Bate, is currently ski-ing 550km to the magnetic North Pole to raise money for Moving Mountains Trust (@MMTrust). Thanks to...
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What Responsible Tourism is Not
The word Sustainable is now everywhere, it has grown beyond its literal, grammatical meaning and is tagged onto a huge number of entities, some deserving, some not. In the world of travel and tourism...
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Climbing and Craic in the Atlas Mountains
A very Personal Account of Adventure in the Moroccan High Atlas By P. Jack PART 1 : SOMEWHERE IN NORTH WEST AFRICA…. I was at 4,100 metres above sea level in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. There were...
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Outside the comfort zone: Hobbits and the concept of Home
A Psychologist’s review of the new movie- The Hobbit: An unexpected journey. Peter Jackson (Director) Much of the early discussion of Peter Jackson’s new film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, has...
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Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice is a recently released and award-winning feature film which follows photographer James Balog in his quest to photograph and document the recession of glaciers around the world. It seems...
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Slum Tours : The Human Zoo?
Over the past decade ‘slum tourism’ has sky-rocketed to popularity, seen as a new way to branch outside the more conventional tourist activities. This form of tourism can actually be dated back to...
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Out of Africa : Gilbert’s account of a week with Adventure Alternative in the UK
Last week a handful of Adventure Alternative/Moving Mountains staff touched down on UK soil. Friends and colleagues flew over from Kenya, Nepal and Russia to celebrate AA/MM founder Gavin’s wedding and...
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Supporting the Indiginous Penan people of Malaysian Borneo
Adventure Alternative has spent recent years working to support the indigenous Penan people who live in the rainforests of the Sarawak region of Malaysian Borneo. A number of villages are represented...
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