Good companions
Just a few of the interesting walkers who’ve been featured in Andrew’s podcasts...
LISE PAPE: Danish engineer who developed mobilityenhancing footwear called Path-Finder and Path-Feel for sufferers of Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and other sensory neuropathy conditions. www.walkwithpath.com
JULIAN RICKERT: founder member of theatre group One Step at a Time Like This. The group creates theatre and cinema experiences which accompany people as they walk around cities across the globe. Their street-to-street show En Route was performed in London as part of the Cultural Olympiad in 2012. www. onestepatatimelikethis.com
CLAUDIA ZEISKE: creator of the Slow Marathon in Aberdeenshire. Each year she hosts a walking marathon across the local countryside – but invites a different artist to create each year’s route and populate it with their work. She is also the founder of The Walking Institute: www.deveron-projects. com/the-walking-institute
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SMITH: a writer on a quest to explore secretive parts of London on carefully constructed walks forming a colossal spiral from the city centre. Find out more about him at www.londonspiral. wordpress.com
NICK HUNT: an author whose book Walking the Woods and the Water retraced the steps of ‘tramping scholar’ Patrick Leigh Fermor across Europe. His latest book, Where the Wild Winds Are, follows the paths of Europe’s named winds in a bid to understand how they affect the landscapes beneath them. Among them is Britain’s only named wind, the Penninebothering Helm Wind.