5 articles tagged with sossusvlei
The first time I stood beneath the Namibian night sky, I experienced what I can only describe as a profound geological vertigo. After decades of mapping hot springs across three continents and exploring subterranean cave systems, I found myself utterly...
The boardroom walls were closing in on my executive team back in London years ago. I recognized the symptoms—creativity stagnation, strategic myopia, burnout. The prescription wasn't another metropolitan hotel conference room. What we needed was perspective, quite literally. Namibia's Sossusvlei,...
There are moments when the earth reveals itself to you in ways that transcend the ordinary—when landscapes become portals to something deeper within yourself. Namibia's Sossusvlei is precisely such a place. As I stood barefoot on the spine of the...
There's something about Sossusvlei that triggers the investigative side of my nature. Perhaps it's the way the light plays detective across the ancient sand, revealing and concealing secrets with each passing hour. As someone who's traded crime scenes for landscapes,...
The pre-dawn darkness enveloped our 4x4 as we rumbled along the final stretch toward Sossusvlei. My Scottish blood may prefer the misty highlands, but there's something about Namibia's ancient desert that calls to the wanderer in me. Having spent decades...