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2017 Jan: The Simiens, Africa’s greatest mountain playground

Imagine a range of mountains cleaved in two. From one side it looks like any other: slopes gaining height from valley floor to rocky skyline. But when you reach that skyline, there’s something missing –…
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2016 December: Ethiopia – Water, Water Everywhere

The dominant feature of our first days in Ethiopia was one I had least expected – water. The most populous landlocked country in the world is yet to shed the Live Aid/Geldof framing of famine,…
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