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Lisa Drewe
Lisa Drewe is a walker,
mountaineer, sea-kayaker and
cyclist with a special interest
in exploring, writing about
and photographing the islands
of the British Isles. She has
completed human-powered
circumnavigations and high-
point climbs of over 170 islands,
documenting them on her
website as she goes, and has
walked and cycled around many
other archipelagos of the world.
Over the past three years she
has focussed on researching and
writing her book, ‘Islandeering:
adventures around the outer
edge of Britain’s hidden islands’.
Chris Scaife
Chris Scaife has just moved to
Kendal from Newcastle. Other
than a few lengthy breaks to
travel the world he has lived in
the north of England his whole
life.
He spends most of his time
exploring caves, walking and
cycling, throughout the UK
and abroad, but particularly in
the wilder parts of the north of
England. Recent caving exploits
include the exploration and
survey of a previously unknown
2.4km system in the Pennine
After leading the
development of the National
Trust’s strategy, the basis of
their Outdoors and Nature
programme, she was desperate
to spend more time outdoors
herself and became a full time
islomaniac several years ago.
Lisa lives on the Isle of Skye and
in Wiltshire with Charlie her
husband and Goose the rescue
dog. She’s the Chair of Whale and
Dolphin Conservation, the global
charity for protecting whales and
dolphins and campaigning for
healthy oceans.
Hills, a few kilometres of new
passage in northern Spain,
and being part of the first ever
British caving expedition to
Armenia, where the team found
and explored the third longest
cave in the country.
Chris makes frequent
contributions to Descent
magazine and has written for
several others, including The
Northumbrian. His first book, The
Caves of Northumberland, was
published by Sigma Press in April
2019.
Martyn Howe
After a full-time career in
Information Technology, I
formed a freelance business that
gives me time to follow my true
passion - walking and cycling
through the beautiful landscapes
of the British Isles. Almost ten
years later I have completed
the nineteen National Trails of
England, Scotland and Wales,
including a recent completion
of the Wales Coast Path. During
that time I cycled around the
North Sea and took the long
route from Land’s End to John
o’Groats via the Wild Atlantic
Way in Ireland. Keeping a diary
led to creating a website and
blog at www.trailplanner.co.uk,
and later to write a book with a
working title Follow the Acorn - a
narrative recalling my National
Trail experienced.
I have two more ideas for
books in the pipeline on coastal
walking and cycling, but first
I need to see my first book
published.
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