Walking & Orienteering: How to Cross Hills, Back Country and Rough Terrain in Safety and Confidence: a Professional Manual for Hikers, Paddlers, Horse Trekkers and Extreme Cy

The essential guide to challenging and adventurous trips in all kinds of terrain for the intrepid explorer and competition walker

Peter G. Drake has led or been a member of 36 expeditions, visiting 55 countries in five continents. He has driven overland from the UK to Nepal to climb in the Himalayas, has twice crossed the Sahara to the River Niger, and has followed the Nile route south to East Africa. He has also climbed and walked in the Arctic, Australia and the United States. He has led a Duke of Edinburgh Award Expedition to North Africa; the British Schools Expedition to Kenya; Brathay Exploration Group Expeditions to Botswana, Australia, Kenya and South Africa; and the Yorkshire Schools Expeditions to Kenya, South Africa and Australia. He has been a member of the British Mountaineering Council Training Committee, Chairman of the Expedition Advisory Centre at the Royal Geographical Society, and Chairman of the Expedition and Training Committee of the Young Explorers' Trust.