By the numbers
Fifteen years, counted. Everything on this page is read straight out of the writing — if the archive can't answer it, it isn't here.
- 295
- entries written
- 176,880
- words
- 28
- countries
- 16
- years
On the road
- 393days travelling, across 13 trips
- 85miles trekked that were logged
- 18,500 fthighest point reached — Day 9 Gondogoro La (GG La)!
- 643photographs published
- 66days — longest single trip, Nepal, Tibet, India Golden Triangle
- 1,514days — longest gap between trips, Africa & Egypt to Japan
The writing
- 600words in an average entry
- 2,880words — longest, Day 9 Gondogoro La (GG La)!
- 6words — shortest, Oh hell
- 292 / 3entries by Beth / by Andy
- Decemberbusiest month, 57 entries across all years
- 61entries — most written on one trip, Nepal, Tibet, India Golden Triangle
Entries by year
- 2009 25
- 2011 51
- 2012 9
- 2013 18
- 2014 27
- 2015 31
- 2016 48
- 2017 15
- 2018 41
- 2022 3
- 2023 1
- 2024 26
Entry counts follow publish dates, so a trip that straddles New Year lands in both.
Where — 28 countries, 5 continents
Asia 11
- China
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Thailand
Europe 7
- Austria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Russia
South America 6
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
Africa 2
- Egypt
- Tanzania
North America 2
- Belize
- Guatemala
Places they went back to
Still to be counted
- 0times Beth cried — the register is built, the tagging is theirs
- 2 / 295entries tagged by theme
- 0GPS coordinates — stripped from every archived photograph before we got to them
What these numbers don't say
- Days on the road excludes Japan, where a post published long after the trip makes the computed span meaningless. Set real dates in the trip file and it will be counted.
- Distance and elevation come from the 11 entries that recorded them — the 2024 Karakoram trek. Earlier trips did not log stats, so the real totals are higher.