For posterity, I just can’t resist posting my overall 79th place finish in the Singapore Half Marathon out of 9,700+ runners; 10th in the 30-34 age group (although I know some older people beat me so that”s not such a useful statistic). My official time was 1hr 39:19 – not too shabby when it’s 27 … [Read more…]
[singlepic id=1055 w=320 h=240 float=left]After a lot of hard work at the evenings and weekend, with my fellow Brit Daniel Quinn, I am finally launching a website project about climbing (bagging) the mountains and volcanoes of Indonesia. We’re getting some good press, including a Lifestyle section front page spread in the Sunday Jakarta Post: Climb … [Read more…]
[simage=588,200,n,left,]Before the start of the long wet season and some busy work schedules, we decided to squeeze in bagging one last local West Java volcano. Mount (Gunung) Papandayan is not a hard one to get to or climb because you pretty much drive into the crater, but somehow we failed to make it to the … [Read more…]
[simage=880,200,n,left,]Much of the adventure and challenge in hiking the infamous Gunung Tambora is getting to the mountain. It’s on the north coast of the island of Sumbawa, with Lombok to the West and Komodo to the East. Sumbawa is not your average tourist destination, and so we were pleased that our friends in the Java … [Read more…]