Martin Featherstone: Hyenas Ate My Water Container! Return to the London branch of one of our most popular speakers…this time leading us through his adventures in East Africa and in particular Tanzania. As many of you already know Martin has lively, unique style of presenting…deliberately cheeky & yet very knowledgeable about all his subjects. As IÂ’d visited the same a few years earlier, I was more than interested in his time at Kilimanjaro & going on safari.

Francesca Jaggs: Committee member Francesca showed us a short film of her impending visit to the former Yugoslavia, as part of the Healing Hands Network – http://www.healinghandsnetwork.org.uk/ The film detailed the immense pain that many people still endure as a result of the violent wars which the country broke up as a result of and how their small ground up charity tries to assist in the healing process.

Jeanie Copland: Legacy Officer Jeanie regaled us with the first part of her epic ten week trip to Patagonia & wider South America. Yours truly started with one of the clubÂ’s most adventurous members in heading from Buenos Aires, south into the Argentine Patagonia before trekking the epic Torres del Pine W circuit. We went our separate ways on the road to Ushuaia – me up to the Chilean Lake District and Jeanie into Bolivia, Peru before…..