The longer version.
The work, the rooms, the recognition.
And a few things that don’t fit in a bio.
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Travel
Mostly solo, mostly with a backpack. A few trips I keep coming back to.
Aug 2026
↗Sri Lanka, the thirty-sixth country.
The closest one I had not been to, and I had already looked at it: in Oct 2023 I stood at Dhanushkodi, thirty kilometres of water away, three years before I crossed them. Pidurangala rather than Sigiriya Rock, elephants at Kaudulla, and the top of Little Adam’s Peak in the dark.
Feb 2026
↗Volcán Acatenango and Fuego, Guatemala.
Climbed Acatenango on a birthday trip in February 2026 and watched Fuego from the saddle. Acatenango is 3,976 m; Fuego erupts every twenty minutes, and I watched it do it all night from the saddle between them. One of the hardest things I have ever done.
2026
↗Guatemala · El Salvador.
Central America, overland.
Aug 2025
↗Underground caving, Budapest.
Squeezing through unlit limestone passages under a capital city, which is not what most people book Budapest for.
Feb 2025
↗Machu Picchu · Rainbow Mountain, Peru.
Climbed both in the same trip. Rainbow Mountain tops out above 5,000 m, and the altitude is the whole difficulty.
2025
↗Peru · Chile.
Two new countries in South America, on the trip built around Machu Picchu.
Jul 2024
↗Bruny Island, Tasmania.
A trip to see the Southern Lights. The cruise went south of Bruny Island, around 2,200 km from Antarctica, the furthest south I’ve been.
Feb 2024
↗Cenote Oxman, Yucatán.
Jumping into a freshwater sinkhole in the limestone of the Yucatán. No rope, no ladder out but the one you climbed in on.
Sep 2019
↗EdgeWalk, CN Tower, Toronto.
Where all of this started: my first trip abroad and my first solo one, built around a hackathon at Waterloo. I have vertigo bad enough that a thirteenth-floor balcony bothers me, and I paid $195 to walk hands-free around a ledge 116 storeys up. I asked how many people had backed out at the top. Sixty-one. I was not the sixty-second.
Jan 2025
↗London · York · Edinburgh · Ireland.
Three weeks that grew out of a one-hour talk. “UK and Ireland, you have my heart.”
Undated
↗Thirty-six countries, five continents.
India · Canada · Switzerland · Spain · Austria · Czechia · Germany · Netherlands · Belgium · France · Luxembourg · Italy · Nepal · UK · USA · Singapore · China · Mexico · Australia · Thailand · Ireland · Scotland · Japan · Peru · Chile · Malaysia · Poland · Slovenia · Hungary · Slovakia · Denmark · Sweden · Türkiye · Guatemala · El Salvador · Sri Lanka. And counting.
The record,
with a backstory.
For how these pieces fit together, there’s the story.
For what I work by, there are the boundaries.