Dulkara Martig, far right, traversed the Southern Alps with Ingrid Booiman, Tara Mulvany and Anna Loomes. Photo: Dulkara Martig

The joy and tribulation of long outdoor trips

October 2020

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Dulkara Martig explains why she – and others – prefers weeks-long wilderness journeys rather than short and sharp weekend getaways

Long, human-powered journeys have been romanticised throughout history. Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian desert journeys through the Empty Quarter in the 1940s have long captured our collective imagination. More recently, in 2012, Turkish-American Erden Eruç completed his five-year-long solo circumnavigation of the Earth. A bit closer to home, the lure of a remote, unsupported journey prompted three […]
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