Gus Roxburgh, Writer

All the Breaks

Surfing Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast. Published in Sunday Star Times Magazine. We live in a world dominated by ever increasing competition for scarce resources is

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Men at War

Writer turned Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Sebastian Junger – Published in The Listener George Orwell once said “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready

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Motorcycle Masala

Riding Enfields in the Indian Himalaya Published in The Listener On the backseat of the night bus from Delhi, a pair of nervous newlyweds sit

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The Unbearable Lightness of Skiing

Heliskiing Alaskas Last Frontier Published in The Listener There’s something disquieting yet strangely satisfying about travelling to places where you’re not at the top of the food

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Adventures of a Lifetime

Polar Explorer and English eccentric, Sir Ranulph Fiennes – Published in The New Zealand Way. It’s 4 am and Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes (“just call

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The Herminator

Skiing Superstar Published in The Listener It is one of those sporting moments that, courtesy of a thousand lingering and lurid slow motion replays, is

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Frozen in Time

The Race to Save Scott and Shackletons Antarctic Huts Published in The Listener Some 4000km south of New Zealand in the icy moonscape of Antarctica

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Rocky Mountain Way

Ski Touring Europe’s Haute Route Published in The Listener From the land that bestowed upon the world the dubious musical gift of bagpipes comes a

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