Inca Trails: Journey Through The Bolivian and Peruvian Andes
MARTIN LI is a writer and photographer who earlier studied physics at Cambridge. A keen skier, horserider and trekker, he has a passion for exploring the adventure and culture of the world's great mountain regions, especially the Himalayas, Alps and, above all, the Andean countries of South America. In 2000, he spent four months writing for The Bolivian Times in La Paz, covering diverse subjects ranging from privatisation and the Bolivian stockmarket to cock fighting. Martin won the 2005 Wilderness Award for this expedition, and has subsequently given several lectures on the journey. More light heartedly, he was a member of the triumphant "Explorers" team which won the "Test the Nation - Know Your Planet" show broadcast on BBC1 in May 2006. Martin's other adventures have included riding a horse across the Namib Desert, trekking to Bhutan's most sacred summit, close encounters with black bears in Alaska and rafting the thundering rapids of Panama's Rio Chiriqui. Martin is the author of Adventure Guide to Scotland and contributed to V!VA List Latin America. He lives in London and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.