- A Fine Balance
- Desert Cure
- The Agony and the Ecstasy
- The World’s Cheapest Haircut

This issue features Colombia’s Choco department, Celebrating Saharan Life with Niger’s Nomads’s, Trekking to Everest Base Camp, The World’s Cheapest Haircut,  plus much more.

FEATURES

32_A FINE BALANCE
It’s not just the greenery that’s thriving in Colombia’s isolated Chocó department. Against all odds, locals plant the seeds of conservation.
STORY: KATHRYN JEZER-MORTON
PHOTOGRAPHY: VLADIMIR SANCHEZ

44_DESERT CURE
Is the Cure Salée a Saharan-style county fair, match-making venue or beauty pageant? Whatever it is, Niger’s nomads call it a good time
STORY: SHANNA BAKER
PHOTOGRAPHY: SHANNA BAKER + GRANT FAINT

56_THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
In a landscape infused with spirituality, one writer battles body and soul on a tough trek to Everest Base Camp
STORY + PHOTOGRAPHY: DIANNE WHELAN

IN EVERY ISSUE

09_TRIPPING
Waxing poetic and having a whale of a time with our distant cousins

10_ON THE FRINGE
Pyramid construction codes, sneaky squirrels and a new shrew

13_LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Braving the clippers for the cheapest buzz in Abuja, Nigeria

16_GOURMET DU MONDE
All hail red-hot harissa!

19_HEALTHPOST
Safety tips to keep your head above water

22_FIELD NOTES
Black Hawks and biodiversity atlases: the drama and detail of expedition leadership

28_MEC’S THE TRAVELLER’S EDGE
Tips from and for world trekkers

30_GOING HARD
Do climbers’ ethics nose-dive alongside oxygen   levels in Everest’s death zone?

68_WORLD WRITES
Get inside a grizzly’s head, see the North in fiction’s garb, and ponder Everest’s 2006 tragedy

70_BACKPACKERZ BUZZ
News from Hostelling International

78_WRIGHT OF WAY
Ian Wright talks climbers down from the ledge