Tsaatans
Tsaatans Image Courtesy of Hamid Sardar The legendary tsaatan reindeer herders in Mongolia. Nomadic by nature, the tsaatans of Mongolia
- Mount Pinatubo
Features: Asia, Remote Places, Volcanoes - Elevation 3,440- Namche
Features: Expeditions to Remote Places, explorers, NGO - Elevation 8,848 – Everest Shadow
Features: everest, Expeditions, mountaineering - Black Rose and Mongolian Bling
Features: film, Mongolia - The Stone Sentinel
Features: Expeditions to Remote Places, explorers - The Banzai Pipeline
Christine Amour-Levar
Christine Amour-Levar Of French, Swiss and Filipino descent, Christine is a Freelance Writer, Editor, Marketing Consultant, and Author of The Smart Girl’s Handbook to Being Mummylicious. She lives in Singapore with her husband and four children, and is a passionate adventure traveller, who pursues mountain climbing and trekking in particular. In 2012, she co-founded Women...
Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo “When Mount Pinatubo erupted in June 1991, it spewed out more than five cubic kilometres of magma and sent an ash cloud 35 kilometres into the air. It was the second largest eruption of the 20th century, exceeded only by the 1912 eruption of Mount Novarupta in Alaska. Today, if you drive out two hours...
Karine Moge
Photographer – Karine Moge ( 3rd from left), with the team of Women on a Mission. Karine Moge Karine is a French Photographer currently based in Singapore, where she lives with her husband and three children. She grew up in her native France, and after graduating with a Master’s in Business Management, she pursued a...
Elevation 3,440- Namche
Elevation 3,440m- Namche The Sherpa Capital of Nepal, Namche Bazaar, which is located in heart of the unspoiled Sagarmatha Park, is the main trading centre for the Khumbu region. At 3,440 metres of altitude, even the fittest people can be prone to altitude sickness, and warnings about this are plastered along the way into Namche....
Valerie Boffy
Valerie Boffy Valerie is a French Adventurer and Philanthropist, currently based in Singapore, where she lives with her husband and son. Growing up in her native France, she competed at the National Junior Team level in gymnastics and at the regional level in volleyball. She majored in Economics and went on to enjoy a very successful...
Elevation 8,848 – Everest Shadow
Everest Shadow After 10 hours of intense concentration through the darkness, to cover 1.72 miles from the South Col, I finally reach the South Summit of Everest and start the very slippery narrow path leading to the True Summit. As the sun rises behind me, I lift my head after each painful step, to discover...
Benj Binks
Having travelled the world for the last 10 years, Benj has expanded on his passion for relating stories – through photography,writing, and more recently film. Since 2006, Benj has worked on various film assignments as cameraman, director, and editor whilst pursuing his own projects. He conceived Mongolian Bling in 2007 and is the main creative force...
Black Rose and Mongolian Bling
Photo by Dan Jocelyn I was shooting a documentary about hip hop in Mongolia a few years ago and a lot of people told us we had to meet Black Rose. They didn’t disappoint. Growing up during the collapse of socialism in the early 90′s, many bands started forming as western influences creeped into the...
The Stone Sentinel
The Stone Sentinel: On Top of the Americas The blue of the sky, not tainted by even a whisper of a cloud, soared over me and down to meet the elusive horizon. Whichever direction I spun I saw mountains woven into a carpet of valleys and glaciers, and hundreds and hundreds of tiny peaks in...
Dean Fischer
Dean Fischer Dean is an avid singer-songwriter and never travels far without his guitar. He has also recently taught himself how to program and is currently building a beautiful map designed to help people find and share memorable experiences all over the world. Check out his postcard on climbing Mount Aconcagua and the Maptia blog here.
Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller Jonny is a cold water surfer and ukulele enthusiast currently working on the community and marketing at Maptia. The team are building a beautiful map designed to help people find and share memorable experiences all over the world. Check out his postcard on surfing the Banzai pipeline and the Maptia blog here:
The Banzai Pipeline
The Banzai Pipeline After years of fantasising about this wave on the north shore of Oahu in Hawai’i, it was a dream come true to finally ride it last December. Viewed by many to be the definition of the perfect wave, the Banzai Pipeline is somewhere that every surfer worth their salt should have on...
