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These days, based back in Lancashire, I am a full-time writer and photographer specialising in the outdoors and travel in the UK, Australia, Ireland, France, Madeira and the Azores, which is quite enough to be going on with. I like to get into the culture of the countries I visit, and when I’m walking and writing new guidebooks, the history of the place and its people are important facets, helping me to understand how landscapes were shaped by man, as well as geologically. Never having had the chance to go to university – in the early 1960s, that wasn’t for miners’ sons – I am also proud to have obtained a Masters Degree with Distinction in Lake District Studies from the University of Lancaster.

Now, almost 40 years since those first faltering steps on Welsh rock, I have been fortunate to be able to return to walk the mountains and valleys of North Wales anew, seeing them with more experienced eyes, and understanding, as much as any Englishman can, the role they have played in the lives and culture of the Welsh people.