I first heard about the island of Socotra in a browning copy of a newspaper I found at my grandparents’ house. They hadn’t kept it for this reason, but it featured a piece on British explorer Douglas Botting and his 1956 expedition to a ‘rare and rough island’ lying off the Horn of Africa. Then a young, adventure-hungry Oxford undergrad, Botting was searching to give the Oxford Exploration Club a reason to send him anywhere. So, he drew a circle around an island that neither he nor his encyclopa

He fishes by hand, lives alone in a remote cave and is a living testament to the way residents once lived on this far-flung island in Yemen. Standing on a rocky outcrop on the north-western tip of the Yemeni island of Socotra, the only signs of life that I could see were shoals of fish undulating beneath me in the turquoise water. To the west, the horizon shimmered pink over the ocean, a phenomenon caused by the dusty Arabian atmosphere. From the east rising towards the north, jagged granite pe

With a small window open for travel during the pandemic and a lusting quest for adventure, writer Geri Moore set off for a month to explore one of her favourite countries. What she never expected to find was a blizzard on the Equator.

I’m sat cross-legged on a goat skin rug, drinking sage tea brewed from leaves that we foraged a few hours earlier. The fire next to us crackles away as Ali, tall and slender, stirs a huge pot of vegetable stew. It’s swiftly served on a huge communal plate and we eat the traditional way – using our hands and khoubz (middle eastern flat bread) to soak up the delicious juices. I'm in Wadi Rum, a desert valley in southern Jordan, with my Bedouin guide, Ali. Ali loves telling tales of his life and w

'The white lions don’t exist,' my safari guide says with a smile and twinkle in his eye, 'they are just myths.' Indeed, whispers of these lions have emanated from the lands of Timbavati and southern Kruger in South Africa for centuries. But today three of them are known to exist in the wild, two of whom are found within the 148-sq-km Ngala Private Game Reserve. Sitting in the heart of the region, Ngala means lion in the language of the local Shangaan people. I tell Dyke Khosa – a man with 28 y

Who better to talk about the technological advances set to be made by British Airways in the next 100 years than one of its pilots? Senior First Officer Geri Moore tells us why the latest planes to join the fleet - the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner - exemplify the future of flight.

Our boat glides silently as we weave around towering boulders of ancient limestone. Beneath us, a delicate garden of coral shows off luminescent pinks, peaches and greens. We are sailing towards a tiny, uninhabited island, hidden within the Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat. Here, a dense curtain of rainforest-covered cliffs shelters a lagoon home to a rare and beautiful ecosystem. We arrive at a small outcrop, mooring our boat against a lonely dock. At first glance, the island seems impenet