Paul Guschlbauer’s flight south went mostly smoothly. On the ground, not always. “Usually we rent the cheapest cars—this time, trying to be super safe [in the Atacama Desert], we actually took an expensive 4×4,” he wrote. “At one in the morning, we had to get picked up by the police because the car broke down at 5200m! Everyone had altitude sickness…The mechanic also could not start the car again, so we guess it is still up there.” The blog of his trip will have you Googling “how do I get my pilot’s license?” fly-overland.com, paulguschlbauer.at, @paulguschlbauer
There were long gaps during the production of this issue where we couldn’t reach writer and photographer Christophe Noel. He recently launched Clean Drink Adventures to bring potable water to rural Nepalese—23 million people there don’t have access to safe drinking water—and for five weeks was delivering water himself via motorcycle. cleandrinkingadventures.org, christophenoel.net, @christophe_l_noel