Ever wondered what it’s like to travel for days across an endless sea of ice? The experience mind numbing temperatures? Listen to Ash Routen on Outside In podcast talking about his experiences as a polar explorer.
Ash Routen is an outdoor and adventure writer from the UK specialising in adventurous travel and expeditions, such as mountaineering, polar travel, and ocean crossings. He also regularly writes on hiking and trekking, and reviews walking guides and outdoor books. Ash juggles a day job as a public health scientist with this second career in outdoor writing.
His words have featured in national newspapers, national and international outdoor and adventure magazines, and various websites. Bylines include Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Outside Magazine, Rock and Ice, and Red Bull. Ash is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild UK, and he has interviewed numerous high profile adventurers such as Reinhold Messner and Borge Ousland
Alongside writing, Ash also spends some time undertaking his own adventures, and completed a 640 km foot crossing of a frozen Lake Baikal in 2018. His next arctic journey is a 700 km trek along the coast of Baffin Island in Canada.
READ ASH’S GUIDE TO MANHAULING THE FROZEN LAKE HERE
Recording of Lakre Baikal ice sounds by Olesya Rostovskyaya.
