Today Josie is off to Nepal for 2 weeks training including one week trekking, meetings with our hoteliers, and a visit to an SOS Children’s Village that we hope to support. On her visit she will gain invaluable experience that she can use to inform her customers and prepare better holidays.
Students from Telford’s Outdoor Pursuits course meet at Edinburgh Airport for their departure with Himalayan Foosteps.
Their 3 week expedition includes mountain biking, white water rafting, canyoning, trekking, charity work and plenty of education.
Oliver Margry (right) is presenting a company cheque for £300 to John Cunningham of Mercy Corps at Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh.
Mr Lewis Watt and Mr Guy Dick are at the front of the photo, their courage to drive over 8,000 miles to Mongolia is the inspiration behind this charitable donation.
The donation will be targeted directly to charitable cause in Mongolia read more here
London – A scientist reckons that long-distance space travel will leave us short, fat and bald.
Astrobiologist Dr Lewis Dartness revealed at the Cheltenham Science Festival that living without gravity would cause space travellers’ bones and muscles not to develop properly, leaving them stunted and weak.
Meanwhile, the lack of effort needed to move around in low gravity and a temperature-controlled environment would mean that “future spacemen and women are likely to become pretty chubby”.
And it gets worse. “Without gravity, fluid would float up to pool in the skull, which would cause the head to look permanently swollen out of proportion”, Dr Dartness added.
Warming to his subject, he continued: “Also, with no need for hair to insulate the head or eyelashes to flick dust from their eyes, future humans may become completely hairless.”
The Kepler space telescope, which was launched earlier this year, is expected to find a number of fertile Earth-like planets dotted around the cosmos.
However, while some of them may be capable of hosting complex life, the astronomical distances mean that boldly going where no man has gone before could take generations.
Ananova.com
Why go?
Where Edinburgh has elegance and urbanity, Glasgow has edginess and bravura. Modern, glass-fronted structures rub shoulders with grand Georgian and Victorian buildings. Art collections are eclectic and free; Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s architecture is soaring and sensual; shops are first class and the eating-out scene is creative. Smart, good-looking, wisecracking (and that’s just the locals), Glasgow has a distinctive beat.
By Helen Pickles, The Daily Telegraph.
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