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Four Spectacular Moments From Mongolia

By Tom | Published: July 16, 2010
These com­pos­ite shots are from moments dur­ing my time in Mon­go­lia when I made a spe­cial effort to cap­ture the essence of the land­scape and the atmosphere. You can be the judge of how suc­cess­ful I was!
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Mongolia: The Cream Of Adventure Cycle-Touring

By Tom | Published: July 3, 2010
In 2006, Andy and I took our mountain-bikes up to Inverness and spent a week rid­ing an off-road route to Fort Wil­liam, which we had put together from detailed Ordin­ance Sur­vey maps. We made a lot of mis­takes — car­ry­ing all of our kit in heavy back­packs, rely­ing for a good night’s sleep on a [...]
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Off The Map In Central Mongolia — A Photo Essay

By Tom | Published: June 6, 2010
Mon­go­lia is a far more access­ible place for a mountain-biking exped­i­tion than I’d ima­gined. Nav­ig­a­tion has been a mix­ture of old tech­niques and new tech­no­logy. Our GPS unit didn’t help us to choose a route through the maze of tangled tyre tracks, but it did provide a bear­ing and an approx­im­ate dis­tance to the next [...]
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Back In The Saddle From Ulaanbaatar To Bulgan

By Tom | Published: June 1, 2010
The life of a cycle tour­ist is often dic­tated by the forces of nature. This was never more true than for the first week’s jour­ney­ing from the Mon­go­lian cap­ital out into the depths of the steppes. Rain, snow, hail, head­winds, tail­winds, sidewinds, dust-storms, bak­ing sun, freez­ing cold, cloud tapestries and clear blue skies all made [...]
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The Brick Wall Of Eternal Dissatisfaction

By Tom | Published: March 4, 2010
It occurred over the fest­ive sea­son, when I had the pleas­ure of host­ing Fear­ghal and Simon in Yerevan for a very merry Christ­mas and New Year. Con­ver­sa­tion had turned to bicycle travel, as it had an annoy­ing habit of doing every few minutes. Fear­ghal and I were dis­cuss­ing motiv­a­tions for future bike trips. “It just wasn’t [...]
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