It is by listening to others, you develop as a human being. Therefore, I have contacted an array of  interesting human beings who´s paths have crossed mine throughout the years and who have, in one way or the other, inspired me and made my life much better. People who make a difference and whose voice through film, lectures and writing will make life better. Or at least more interesting and enjoyable. And I will invite people from all walks of life, who has something to say.

However, this is important to understand, even though I publish their thoughts on my site, it is their opinions, not mine. So, you readers, to balance an article, please, have opinions!

Start a debate! (Newest article first in that order)

70. David Goldberg, is an information rights advocate, consultant and academic, based in Glasgow, Scotland and writes about the extra ordinary Peter Forsskal, read here!

69. Tanya Holm is a Swedish freelance journalist based in Sanaa. Read her great article about Yemen here!

68. Tarim C. Kennedy, a young American-Italian that has grown up in Yemen. Living in such a diverse country, at a young age he developed a passion for the vast array of animals found in it. Read his article here!

67. Glenn “Marty” Stein, a polar- and maritime historian who has written 3 articles on Receiving Americas Early Antarctic Medals, read here!

66. Parker Litaud, 17 year old explorer on being young in the game, read here!

65. Christian Bodegren, aspiring explorer from Sweden, writes about his thoughts before heading by kayak crossing South-America! Read his story here!

64. CuChullaine O´Reilly is an equestrian explorer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers’ Club, one of the Founders of The Long Riders’ Guild, Director of the LRG-AF, publisher of the LRG Press and author of Khyber Knights. here´s another of his ground breaking stories, this time about Meat Eating Horses On Antarctica!

63. Justin Marozzi writes an excellent article about post-Gaddafi Future. He is a travel writer, historian, journalist and political risk and security consultant.

63. Siris Hartkorn is a young Danish security consultant and political analyst, right now in a troubled Yemen, writing about the subject waiting for war.

62. George Stiller writes on Interactive Google Maps of Historic Events!

61. Ben Thackwary works as an expedition leader and manager and professional adventurer for Adventure Hub and just climbed the highest mountain on earth, read about why he did it!

60. Jim McNeill has clocked up 27 years of polar travelling and 33 years of expeditioning; thousands of miles mostly on nothing but skis and dragging his world behind him. Few, have that breadth and depth of experience in extreme environments. His guiding, safety and survival expertise is employed by BBC TV and Hollywood film crews on location all over the world – hot as well as cold. Read his article about polar bears!

59. Lorraine Chittok decided, after twelve years living and travelling throughout Africa and the Middle East, to take her career and two Kenyan ex-street dogs on the road. Read her story Border madness; Travelling with dogs.

58. Eamonn Gearon is an Arabist, analyst and author who has lived and worked in the Greater Middle East – from Kabul to Casablanca – for the past twenty years.writes about the Great Desert of Sahara. Read here!

57. Moki Kokoris holds the position of Main Representative for the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations NGO in consultative status with the UN Department of Public Information and she is the founder of “90-north” — a 2007-2009 International Polar Year sanctioned multidisciplinary outreach educational program offered to students and teachers studying issues and topics relating to Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. She has written a great article about Samís and coffee. Read here!

56. Johan Forsberg has studied Survival and Bushcraft with several instructors and has studied and worked for the renowned WEISS School (Wilderness Experience Survival School) before starting his own school Nordic Bushcraft. He has written an excellent article on the subject here!

55. Justin Marozzi, is a travel writer, historian, journalist and political risk and security consultant.Read his great Libyan report here!

54. Nancy Sathre-Vogel writes about homecoming after 3 years on a bicycle together with her family! Read here!

53. Alex Hibbert, explorer, writer writes about setting new Expedition Standard Guidelines. Read here!

52. Tshering Tashi is MD of jojos adventure Bhutan and writes about the legendary yak. Read here!

51. Jeanie Davison, TV producer, writer, motorcyclist, serial traveller asks in this article if the adventure world is only for men?

50. Louis Meunier, Long Rider and documentary film maker writes about the Kyrgyz of Pamir in Afghanistan. Read here!

49. Christy Henchi writes from her amazing African travel by horse. Read her story here!

48. Tom Allen, cyclist and adventurer, on how to get sponsors. Best piece on the subject I have read! Read here!

47. Elizabeth Hill, an English teacher preparing to ride around Britain by horse. Read about her preparations here!

46. Oliver Steeds, documentary maker, explorer, journalist writes about searching for He Wen. Read here!

45. Karolina Jeppson has a passion for writing in different genres, for cultural and religious issues, which pushed her into journalism, as well as currently Islamic studies. Read her story about bringing a stroller to Senegal.

44. Margaret Bowling is an expedition manager specializing in polar and ocean expeditions. She works with teams on every aspect of their expeditions and adventures, from crew selection through to sponsorship and PR. Read her article about being the first Australian woman to cross an ocean.

43. Rashad Saeed, Arabic teacher and involved in the Yemeni political landscape. Read his story about Dignity Friday,  where more than 52 were killed and 600 injured by the bullets of veiled snipers who were distributed on the roofs of many houses in Al- Dairi Street.

42. Matt George is a bidding Polar explorer, read his enjoyable account of the problems involved getting to the North Pole.

41. Kyle Henning just turned his first Expedition into a success. Read his story here!

40. Marija Kozin, Slovenian cyclist. Read her great story here!

39. Rashad Saeed, Arabic teacher and involved in the Yemeni political landscape. Read his story about the political turmoil here!

38. Kyle Anthony Foster, writes again on Yemen. Kyle is an international development and political consultant. Read his analysis here!

37. Arita Baaijens, desert explorer and political analyst, gives an I witness report from Tahrir Square, after the “revolution”. Readhere!

36. Christian Bodegren tried to cross the Sahara last year, but ended up in a Libyan court instead. Read his Libyan report!

35. Tomasz Grzywaczewski – inhabitant of Lodz, law student out of reason, journalist and traveler out of passion. He just did the Long Walk. Read his great report here!

34. Kate Harris is a young Canadian writer, adventurer, and wilderness pilgrim. Kate was named a 2010 “Woman of Discovery” by Wings WorldQuest for her efforts to advocate for wilderness conservation across borders. Read her report here!

33. Kyle Henning, Peace Corps volunteer and adventurer stationed in Bahir Dar in Ethiopia, talks about his next Christmas and his job as a Peace Corps volunteer. Read here!

32. Simon Mulholland is 55, and has done most things, few of them well. As a cook, he is proud to have roasted Peacock  on a portable inglenook fireplace of his own design, for the Hell’s Angels. He has spent ten years developing a safe, modern, pony drawn vehicle system, most recently incorporating a wheelchair enabled version. He doesn’t train ponies, he works with them and lets them train him.  He takes pony drawn vehicles to motorcycle rallies, and wears pink crocs and wonders why people think he is odd. Read his great article here!

31. Bolot Bochkarev, a 35-year old blogger, who was born and lives in Yakutsk, the administrative centre of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Used to work as a journalist for many newspapers published. The last job was the observer of Yakutia Daily Newspaper. Graduated from Yakutsk State University, where he studied foreign languages. Participated in graduate study at University of Missouri in St Louis, USA. Had internship at the Voice of America Radio in Washington DC. Read his extra ordinary article here!

30. Michael Robinson, is an associate professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. Read here!

29. Young student Karl Wallulis rights about Islam in the USA. Read here!

28. CuChullaine O´Reilly on Ethical Exploration. His second blog report as a guest writer. Read his first here. And the new onhere! CuChullaine O’Reilly is the Founder of the Long Riders’ Guild, the world’s international association of equestrian explorers and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers’ Club. He is currently completing the “Horse Travel Handbook,” the most comprehensive equestrian exploration guide ever written. Read it here!

27. Dr. Alicia Colson (McGill) has been an archaeologist since 1990 and has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Canada, the UK, the US and most recently Antigua. She is currently involved in the creation of a consortium drawn from the world of New Media and Academe to establish a new digital academic publishing company, working from a ‘think tank’ located in a purpose-built research park in NW Ontario. She has recently become an International Fellow of the Canadian Branch of the Explorers Club. She has written this excellent article about life….read here!

26. Arita Baaijens is also a biologist, author, photographer and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Twenty years ago she gave up her job as an environmentalist, bought camels and made a solo crossing across the Western Desert of Egypt. Today she has made over 25 expeditions (3-6 months at a time) with her own caravan of camels all over Egypt and the Sudan. Read here!

25. Tim Moss. Tim has organised logistics for large-scale expeditions and personal ones, like Around the World in 80 Ways. He lives in Oman. Read his article here!

24. Yuri Boyanin is  a historian, a person who alarmingly realizes seeing the world more and more through the prism of history. Also a traveler and explorer of all things geographical, business, musical, historical, political and above all, that relate to the human mind. At the age of 22. he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Read here!

23. Duncan J.D Smith, Having worked for many years in the publishing industry selling other travel writers’ books, Duncan J. D. Smith decided in 2003 to start writing and illustrating his own. As an ‘Urban Explorer’, travel writer, historian and photographer he has embarked on a lifetime’s adventure, travelling off the beaten track in search of the world’s unusual people and places, from the back streets of Vienna and the bunkers of Berlin to the deserts of Jordan and the highlands of Ethiopia. Read here!

22. Per Enerud. He was the correspondent for SVT in Moscow from 1996 until 2007. He works as a free lance journalist today. He writes a great story about the Russian wildfires. Read here!

21. Tishani Doshi was born and lives in Madras, India. Being the product of two cultures (Gujarati and Welsh), and the middle of three children, and also being curious and sensitive by nature, it was almost always certain that she would become a writer. As a teenager she discovered her mother’s love letters to her father and resolved to one day write her own version of their story. She is a writer, poet, dancer and wanderer. Read her great story from Antarctica here!

20. Laura Davenport is the wife of adventurer Ripley Davenport, who, at this moment, is making his way through Mongolia and he wrote this article earlier! She´s his secretary, coach, wife, mother of his 2 children, this is how she sees her life right now!

19. Stellan Johansson, Swedish cyclist and biologist gives a unique insight to Kazakhstan. Read here!

18. David Renwick Grant. At the end of 1997, David Grant – and his family: ex-wife Kate, children Torcuil (1980), Eilidh (1981) and Fionn (1984) – returned from travelling around the world with a horse and caravan, an unique journey which took them seven years; across fifteen countries on three continents and, incidentally, into the Guinness Book of World Records. His story of the family’s epic global journey was published by Simon & Schuster as The Seven Year Hitch, (1999) and in paperback in 2000.Read here!

17. Ripley Davenport. This is his second report and regards the sensitive issue, how does it feel coming back home after a long Expedition. Read more here!

16. Carin Kiphart and her husband Ridlon have logged over 12,000 dives as professional Scuba instructors, shark feeders and photographers, climbed Himalayan mountains, and explored the planet from Antarctica to Oceania and back again. The Kipharts served as on board Directors for Ocean Quest International, Dive Directors for WindStar Cruises, Tour Directors for Tauck World Discovery, and are co-founders of Global Diving Adventures and Live Adventurously. Read here!

15. Andrés Mourenza (A Coruna, Spain, 1984) is a free-lance journalist based in Istanbul since 2005. He collaborates mainly with the Spanish ’EFE’ news agency and ‘El Periodico de Catalunya’ newspaper, but has worked also for the Spanish speaking version of BBC Radio and Deutsche Welle TV, and other radios from Spain and Latin America. He has travelled the neighbouring region to inform about the situation in northern-Irak, the Kurdish conflict in south-eastern Turkey, the post-war period in Georgia, the tense relations between Turkey and Armenia, the longstanding division of Cyprus or the riots in Greece. Read his articlehere!

14.Baris Koca was born in 1975 , graduated from electronics engineering dept. in 1998. Between 2004-2008, while he was still working as an engineer, his travelling photo articles published in several magazines and his photographs awarded by several national and international contests. He was chosen as a member of Management Board of a photography association in Ankara, in 2007-2008. Read his article here!

13. Alastair Humphreys is my 13th Guest Writer and Alastair spent 4 years cycling 46,000 miles round the world, a journey described as “the first great adventure of the new millennium”. He is currently training for SOUTH, the first unsupported return journey to the South Pole. Read here!

12. Barry Moss (MI’94) – has been Chairman of the British Chapter since 1998 and has also served two terms as a Board Director of the Explorers Club in New York. He is a veteran of Operation Drake, Operation Raleigh and the reed boat Kota Mama expeditions in South America. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Trustee and Director of the Scientific Exploration Society and a Director of Youth Exploring Science. Read here!

11. Helen Lloyd studied aeronautical engineering for 4 years at university and somehow managed to hold down a proper office job in engineering for another 4 years after that. She’s always been a sports fanatic; primarily a hockey player (as much for the socialising as for the game, she claims) with some rowing, mountain-biking, adventure-racing and some snow-boarding thrown in for fun. Read her report here!

10. Arita Baaijens. She is also a biologist, author, photographer and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Twenty years ago she gave up her job as an environmentalist, bought camels and made a solo crossing across the Western Desert of Egypt. Today she has made over 25 expeditions (3-6 months at a time) with her own caravan of camels all over Egypt and the Sudan. Read here!

9. Paula Constant is from Australia and in 2004, with no previous expedition experience, Australian Paula Constant began walking from Trafalgar Square with a backpack.  Since then, she has walked over 12000 km through eight countries, including nearly 8000km through the Sahara with her own camel train.  Married when she left Trafalgar Square, Paula’s husband left the expedition a year later, when the couple were just 1000km into their desert trek.  Paula carried on with two Arabic, nomadic guides, and went on to gain sponsorship and go over halfway across the Sahara in a bid to make a West to East crossing of the desert when she was stopped by civil war in Niger in 2007. No female adventurer has walked so far through the Sahara alone but for local guides. Read her articlehere!

8. Our next guest writer, Christian Janssons tale from the earth quake in Chile is brilliant and in such a hurry that I didn´t get a photo of him. He works for Ericsson in Santiago de Chile. Read his report here!

7.Robert Twigger is a writer and explorer who in 2009-2010 was the first person to walk across the great Sand Sea of the Eastern Sahara. He has a website roberttwigger.com and his latest book is Dr Ragab’s Universal Language. Read his report here!

6. Johan Ivarsson was my partner on the Kolyma Expedition 2004-05. Since then I receive 2-3 emails or questions every week what he is doing nowadays. Find out here!

5. CuChullaine O’Reilly is an equestrian explorer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers’ Club, one of the Founders of The Long Riders’ Guild, Director of the LRG-AF, publisher of the LRG Press and author of Khyber Knights. Read his article here!

4. Nick Gallop is a young man with a mission which we all maybe should aim for. He led an uneventful life in Southern England until he discovered the world of adventurous travel and backpacking. Since then Nick has been trained by some of UK and Europe´s best known bushcraft,wilderness skills and survival instructors. He is now passionate about passing on this skills through writing and through teaching. Read his article here!

3. Tricia Nellesen is my third guest writer, who I met at Sabris school in Sanaa, Yemen, half a year ago and she had an insight to a world which i never will get access to, the one of Yemeni women! Tricia is a reputed cultural anthropologist specializing in Yemen and the Middle East. And after working 11 years as a journalist in the U.S., she returned to graduate school for her PhD.  She became interested in studying Yemen after traveling there for language training and have since her first visit, studied the Middle East for four years and Yemen for two.  And whilst in Yemen, she learned of the water shortage and wanted to help the people in some way—so she stayed in order to learn more.  She is currently in the U.S. writing and compiling her research. Read her article here!

2. Ripley Davenport. Ripley is a renowned explorer, adventurer, humanitarian, and inspirational speaker and best known for his demanding expeditions to the isolated areas of the world, notably accomplished solo and unassisted without any machine or animal but on foot by hauling or carrying all his equipment. Read here!

1. Kyle Anthony Foster from Nebraska, who is currently living in Yemen, and have been doing so for the last ten years or more. He is one of the biggest personalities and characters I have come across, a true story teller, survivor, human being and adventurer of the old sorts. Everything happens to this guy! Not one boring second with him. He is married to a nice Yemeni from Mukalla and they have a lovely daughter together. He knows the ins and outs of Yemen. An important voice to listen to, these days of painting Yemen as one of the most dangerous countries in the world! Read here!