“We are going, get dressed !!!”, the guide was yelling at the top of his lungs, barely audible above the noise of the howling wind, only about one metre from my ears, ”Let’s go !!!”. He left and I quickly

“Stay, low, low, low!!!”, our guide was yelling, hardly audible, as the wind was howling, “lie on the ground!!!”. I dove to the ground with my feet slipping on the small rocks. The wind had suddenly picked

Introduction Heya all, @martibis here with another edition of #traveldigest! Short one!All featured posts will be upvoted through @steemitworldmap.All featured posts will be put on the Editors Choice Map.For

My trip to Mount Elbrus started off rather shaky – I think I may have underestimated the preparation time and perhaps prioritized the climbing requirements above everything else. It is always great to

Welcome to the @CycleFeed introduction! - Oil your chain, adjust your saddle and hop on board. This is a project to support our fellow cyclists across the Steemit platform. We are a project supported by

This is a blog about a mountain biking trip in Kenya, to celebrate the start of #cyclefeed, which hopefully will be a thriving place to meet all bike enthusiasts. Thanks for the great initiative, guys!

This photo was taken by me while Mountain biking in Lesotho, close to Maseru, on the border between South Africa and Lesotho. This is my entry for the photo competition organized by @jctdesign

Don’t know anything about cycling or the Tour de France? Perhaps this blog can help you. The Tour de France is a tour on a bicycle through France of about three weeks, whereby 176 professional cyclists

I like mountain sports and I will take as many opportunities as I can to experience a mountain by either running, hiking (climbing) or riding it. Mountain biking tends to be my default, if terrain allows,

We were in the bus with our group of fellow climbers, whom we would get to know very well over the next few weeks, and driving towards the foot of the highest mountain outside Asia, Aconcagua. Aconcagua

I have beautiful, warm memories of the time I spent in Bilene, Mozambique a few years ago over December holidays with my family. It is a bit far out of the capital city but once you get there, all the

The Hidden Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas photo: my own After competing in the 'Tour of the Dragon', a 268 km MTB race in Bhutan, I travelled around the country a little and would like to share some

The Tour of the Dragon MTB race is held in exotic Bhutan in the Himalayas photo credit: modern traveler Click here in case you missed my first post or second post on the Tour of the Dragon Here I was on

The Tour of the Dragon MTB race is held in exotic Bhutan in the Himalayas In case you missed my first post on the lead up to this race: click here Looking around in the dark I could see some of the people

I looked out of the window of a chilly hotel room in Bumthang and there I saw what I was hoping I wouldn’t see: it was raining heavily. Photo credit: tourofthedragon.com We had come to the town of Bumthang,

I have been lucky enough to visit a few countries for my work, that are not the usual tourist destinations. I recently visited Papua New Guinea, a very interesting country to visit. Fish market east of

I am a multi-sport endurance athlete and have been diagnosed with a condition called External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis that limits the amount of blood that goes from the heart to the legs. On the surface,

To go tubeless or not for your MTB bicycle tyres, that is a question some of you might ask yourselves. For me it's clear: the South African bush has so many thorns and sharp rocks, that tubeless is by

In one of my previous posts I talked about the Freedom Challenge in South Africa, 2,300 kilometres with map-navigation and no GPS allowed. all photocredits: freedomchallenge.org.za Jacques Tattersall has

Winner winner! I've been playing with this idea since I first 'discovered' the concept of delegation on STEEM. Once I understood that STEEM Power could be delegated to any project or account you want on