Today Hannah is joined by Team GB's World Cup Telemark Ski Racer, Jasmin Taylor. Jaz holds the record for the British skier with the most World Cup and World Championships medals. Jaz is on the podcast to tell those of you who don't know, what Telemark Skiing is, tell you about her life as a Team GB athlete, and maybe even to inspire you to get out on the snow.

Links and mentions

• The Telemark Company
• Maier Sports.
• FIS Telemark
• Chill Factore Manchester
• The Snow Centre Hemel Hempstead

About our guest

With 39 World Cup podiums to her name, Jasmin Taylor, Jaz, is Britain's most decorated winter sport athlete in history and last year she ended the season ranked second in the overall global Telemark World Cup standings. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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Author Carroll Dorgan joins Hannah this week to talk about the entire GR5 trail, from the North Sea all the way down through Benelux, Lorraine, the Vosges, and past Lake Geneva to the South of France. Find out about the history of the route, the variations you can take, and what tips Carroll recommends.

Carroll Dorgan has also written 'Walking the Brittany Coast Path, The GR34 from Mont-Saint-Michel to Roscoff', available to pre-order now on the Cicerone website: Https://www.cicerone.co.uk as well as our three guidebooks on the GR5.

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Today we're bringing you the highlights from our November Cicerone Live event with authors​​ Simon Whitmarsh and Andrew Mok. They're talking about their new guidebook, Hiking in Hong Kong which covers the multi-day Wilson, MacLehose, Hong Kong and Lantau Trails and 25 day walks (from easy to challenging) on the fascinatingly diverse Hong Kong archipelago, including Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and the islands. With notes on plants, wildlife and geology (including the UNESCO-listed geopark) and public transport information.

Click here to pre-order your copy of Hiking in Hong Kong and if you use the code: KONG10 you'll receive a discount at checkout.

If you'd like to watch the full video of this event or even join in on the next one, you can do so on our live page.

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About our guests

​​Simon Whitmarsh and Andrew Mok are keen walkers, covering over 2000km a year. They have walked extensively in Britain, doing (at least part) of all the major trails, have hiked across England twice, and have walked in most countries in Europe. More recently their addiction to mountains has increased, with treks in the US (including many parts of the Appalachian trail), Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Nepal (Everest Base Camp).

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Offering walks that explore gristone moors, wooded valleys, and expansive coastline, Lancashire is a county that showcases some of the most varied walking in the UK. To share his love for this often-overlooked county, Cicerone author Mark Sutcliffe joins us to talk about his new guidebook to walking in Lancashire which features plenty of family-friendly walking alongside higher-level hill routes. Lancashire has great public transport and road links, and the range of fantastic food, wildlife, and historical sites offers plenty for walkers of all abilities to explore.

Find out more about the guidebook on https://www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-in-lancashire, where you can view our full range of guidebooks to outdoor travel in the UK and across the world and find plenty of advice about walking in the UK.

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An ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury in England to Rome in Italy, the Via Francigena explores medieval cities, vineyards, lakes and mountains as it travels through England, France, Switzerland and Italy on its journey to the Vatican City. In this episode of highlights from our Cicerone Live event, we hear from Cicerone author Sandy Brown about his new guidebooks to the Via Francigena along with a panel of special guests. Focusing on the popular Italian section of the walk, we were joined by Luca Bruschi, executive director of the European Association of Vie Francigene; Julia Lewis, secretary of the Confraternity of Pilgrims to Rome; and Beatrice Moricci, a photographer and walker on the Via Francigena at the time of our event.

Find out more about the guidebooks to the route on the Cicerone website, along with the full video of the live event and plenty of other guidebooks, articles, and videos about pilgrimage routes. For Part 3, Lucca to Rome: https://www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-the-via-francigena-pilgrim-route-part-3, and Part 2, Lausanne and the Great St Bernard Pass to Lucca: https://www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-the-via-francigena-pilgrim-route-part-2. Find out more about the work of the European Association of Vie Francigene: https://www.viefrancigene.org/en/ and the Confraternity of Pilgrims to Rome: https://pilgrimstorome.org.uk/

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With iconic lakes and mountains, the Lake District National Park is one of the UK's most popular tourist destinations and attracts millions of visitors every year. In this episode of highlights from our Cicerone Live event, Cicerone author Mark Richards and Managing Director of Cumbria Tourism Gill Haigh join us to celebrate the new Walking the Lake District Fells ‘Fellranger’ series and discuss sustainable walking in the Lake District. By offering several routes for each Lake District fell and identifying 'fell-friendly routes', the Fellranger series aims to spread footfall across the Cumbrian hills and support the work of charities like Fix the Fells. Mark and Gill offer plenty of expert advice about how tourists can be more sustainable when visiting the Lake District this year, and how to find quieter places to explore in Cumbria. In this episode, Amy also chats to in-house editor Natalie Simpson about her work over the past four years creating the eight new Fellranger guidebooks.

Discover more about all eight Walking the Lake District Fells guidebooks and explore the online resources for the series on the Cicerone website: www.cicerone.co.uk/fellranger. Offering multiple routes for 230 different fells, each guidebook focuses on a particular Lake District valley: Borrowdale, Buttermere, Coniston, Keswick, Langdale, Mardale and the Far East, Patterdale, and Wasdale. To hear more from Mark about Cumbrian landscape, culture and heritage, listen to his podcast Countrystride: www.countrystride.co.uk.

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In this episode, Hannah is joined by Mark Eddy to talk about the upcoming multi-activity guidebook to outdoor adventure in Spain's Costa Blanca, with 60 route suggestions covering ridge scrambles, via ferrata, canyoning, sport climbing, trad climbing, hiking, trail running and mountain biking. Many routes require climbing experience, although they vary in difficulty, with options suitable for a range of abilities.

If you'd like to walk the Costa Blanca Mountains yourself and explore this European adventure playground, you can pre-order Mark's Cicerone guidebook here. You can also find our Walking on the Costa Blanca, 50 mountain walks and scrambles guidebook here.

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In this episode, Hannah is joined by Sara Wild, owner of Mont Blanc Treks to talk all about this truly world class route. Find out about some of the world's finest mountain scenery; Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe; the Chamonix Aiguilles; the Mer de Glacier, second longest glacier in the Alps, a choice of seven or eight passes to cross, each with its own heart-stopping views. Also listen in to find out what other treks Sara is planning to take people on in 2022 and beyond. You can find our guidebook to the Tour of Mont Blanc at Cicerone.co.uk

You can find all of the Mont Blanc Treks mentioned at www.montblanctreks.com and if you'd like to get in touch with Sara you can at Sara@montblanctreks.com. Find all their socials by searching @montblanctreks.

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