It’s four o’clock in the morning and the beachfront is illuminated from the pop-up shops and security spotlights. The contest village at the Quiksilver Pro at Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast, Australia, will be waking up soon as the crowd flock down to watch their heroes surf in the first World...

Like most kids, I loved spending time on my mountain bike messing about and pulling stunts. In my late teens, I started enjoying the sport even more and by the age of 19, I was competing in every race I could get to. It went well for the next four years and I was getting better by the day. This...

Finding the perfect gift can often turn into a daunting task because it’s not always easy to find something that shows how much thought you’ve put into the gifting process. Whether the recipient is a connoisseur or brand new to the whisky experience,...

In my world of wild storms and vast skies, speeding dizzily down mountain passes, sleeping on the backs of trucks and talking to countless strangers, daily living was unpredictable and reactionary. Sitting now on a chair, at a table in a house surrounded by millions of other houses, life on a...

The taxi sashayed exuberantly around the bends to the radio music, trucks flashed past in the opposite direction and memorials lined both sides of the road. We were unmistakably in Venezuela, where every taxi ride might be your last trip. Mandy Ramsden and I had come to climb Pico Bolivar, the...