He is a resident of Chalk Farm, London, and is married with three
children.
His 2000 book, "Two Degrees West", described his walk across Great
Britain in which he followed the eponymous meridian as closely as
possible. Most recently, he published a biography of Gerard Mercator,
the great Flemish cartographer.
In 1986 he located the Pole of inaccessibility for the Eurasia landmass
traveling with his cousin Richard Crane, their journey being the
subject of the book "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". In 1992-3 he
embarked on an 18-month solo journey, walking 10000 kilometers from
Finisterre to Istanbul. He recounted the trip in his book "Clear Waters
Rising", which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1997.
Is a British explorer, writer and broadcaster. Most recently, he has
written and presented two television series for BBC Two.
Together with his cousin Richard Crane, he was awarded the 1992 Mungo
Park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his journeys
in Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa.
In 1992 was awarded the Mungo Park medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his journeys in Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa (with his cousin Richard Crane).
Educated at Wymondham College and Anglia Ruskin University.