After the incredible success of the Mountains: Epic Cycling Climbs book, I have an exciting announcement. Contracts have been signed, and work has now started on a new World Mountains book. It’s a 3-year project which will touch all corners of the globe and showcase the greatest and most beautiful …
Before I became a photographer, I trained as a print maker. My introduction to the print room started when I came back from racing in Australia and enrolled in an Art Foundation Course at Hastings College where I was taught by Ian Brown, an inspirational tutor and master printer. That …
It’s fair to say February is a good month to escape the British winter and head to warmer climes. No better motivation too than when that escape is to spend some time photographing and riding your bike around Gran Canaria’s amazing climbs.
Recently I spent some time in California photographing some of the famous cycling climbs for Swiss cycling brand, ASSOS. The resulting work is currently being exhibited as fine art prints in several stores across California with evening events being held to bring the local community together and raise money for …
I like climbing but 24 kilometers uphill and 2860m of altitude is daunting even when you are motivated and have a plan – first to the top. It’s rare to get the chance to challenge yourself with all that the Col de la Bonette has to offer – the top …
Ventoux is one of those climbs that left a lasting impression; for me road cycling Mont Ventoux and the summer is what road cycling is about. I was 19 years old and in my first year as a pro, riding the Dauphiné. The Ventoux was my first experience of a …
Mountains. When I heard that word in my childhood, it made me think of snow, of inaccessible places. Then I heard about these cols, the tough, narrow roads where the most significant dramas of the Tour de France play out. There are no big climbs in my native Bourgogne, just …
Nobody prepares you for it, you can’t even try to be ready. But once it arrives, you realise that you’ve spent your whole life preparing. Not long ago I was re-reading Paul Auster’s book New York Trilogy: “I didn’t die there, but I wasn’t far off, and there was a …
North Dakota is absolutely flat – flat like, Holland-flat. It’s in the Upper Midwest, a state of the Great Plains and formed from a glacial lake, which creates a two-dimensional landscape; there’s length and breath and a tonne of wind but no depth, no mountains. I started cycling in North …
It’s probably the most embarrassing moment of my career. It was during one of those hard mountain stages in the Tour of Italy when it was freezing cold and snowing really, really hard. The day before we’d been over the Marmolada and on this stage we went back up the …
Here we showcase some of the climbs the riders would have faced today during the Queen stage of the Giro d’Italia, most notably the Passo Fedaia, Passo Pordoi & Passo Giau, all of which top over 2000m.
One of the earliest memories I have of riding a bike is climbing the Stelvio with my Dad at the age of eight. There’s a great picture of me on the climb – it was a bright summer day, warm enough for a short-sleeved jersey, and I was riding my …