Peter John Watson

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Born (1984-02-02) February 2, 1984 (age 40)
Great Yarmouth, UK
NationalityBritish
Years active2014–present
Partner(s)Kia Abdullah
Websitepeterjohnwatson.com

Peter John Watson (born 1984) is a British adventurer and writer. He has climbed four of the Seven Summits, the highest Mountain of each of the seven Continent. He has authored travel guidebooks,[1] contributed to several travel anthologies[2] and written for The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph,[3] The Independent,[4] BBC Travel,[5] I (newspaper)|The i [6] and National Geographic[7] among other publications.

Ascents and expeditions

Seven Summits

So far, Watson has climbed four of the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on every continent. [8]

  • Mount Kilimanjaro, 5,895m, the highest African mountains (2010)
  • Mount Elbrus, 5,642m, the highest and List of European ultra-prominent peaks (2017)
  • Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228m, mainland Australia (continent) (2018)
  • Aconcagua, 6,961m, the List of highest mountains on Earth in the Americas, the highest outside Asia, and the highest in both the Southern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphers (2020)

Watson still plans to climb Denali in North America, Vinson Massif in Antarctica and Mount Everest in Asia. He has stated that he also intends to climb Puncak Jaya in Indonesia to complete the two separate versions of the Seven Summits lists, the first of which restricts Oceania to Australia, while the second includes the islands of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.[9]

Yorkshire Dales Challenge

Watson was planning to climb Denali in Alaska, the highest mountain in North America, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down travel and he was forced to put the expedition on hold. Instead, he turned his attention to a series of smaller mountains closer to home and climbed the 41 mountains of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, which he described as "micro-mountains".[10] He completed his challenge in October 2020, naming it the "YDNP 41" after the name of the national park and the number of peaks he summited in the process.

The feat was reported by a number of publications including The Yorkshire Post,[11] Darlington & Stockton Times,[12] This Is Y Magazine,[13] Living Magazine [14] and Wired for Adventure Magazine.

Climbing Everest from home

During the UK's first lockdown in 2020, the Daily Telegraph reported that "British mountaineer Peter Watson is attempting to climb the highest mountains on each continent using only his staircase. He’s calculated he will need to climb 44,240 steps to scale the 8,848m height of Everest".[15] Watson had written of his plans to climb Everest from his home by using his staircase on his blog[16] before the feat was emulated by a number of other would-be climbers around the UK.[17][18]

Arctic Rescue

In 2019, Watson was on a solo expedition trekking the 165km (103 mile) Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland when he was caught in a freak wildfire in the Innajuattoq valley when an "unprecedented" number of wildfires broke out across Greenland, Siberia and Alaska.[19] After attempting to climb out of the valley, he was forced to call for an emergency evacuation.[20] Watson was interviewed about the experience by Anna Derrig for the The Guardian newspaper [21] and also wrote about the ordeal for American travel publisher Fodor's and British outdoor guidebook publisher Cicerone Press.[22]

Writing and photography

Watson has contributed writing and photography to a range of publications including The Telegraph, BBC Travel, The Independent, the i (newspaper), Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Cicerone Guides, The Guardian, Fodor's, Wanderlust (magazine)|Wanderlust, Business Insider, Matador Network, Rough Guides, Outside (magazine)|Outside Magazine and Atlas Obscura among others. [23]

Watson has also written and contributed to several books including Outdoor Europe,[24] Hike,[25] Unforgettable Journeys Europe,[26] Run[27] and Europe by Train[28] published by DK (publisher)|DK Eyewitness, as well as Lonely Planet's Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist [29] and Best In Travel series. He is currently working on his debut novel. [30]

In 2014, Watson founded the award-winning outdoor travel blog Atlas & Boots, which has been named best blog of the month by National Geographic[31], the Best Outdoor Travel Blog in the 2020 and 2021 Travel & Tourism Awards, [32] [33] and Outdoor Travel Blog of the Year 2022 by SME News.[34] The blog is now read by over 250,000 people a month.[35] Watson is an ambassador for international hiking company, Highlander Adventure. [36] In 2022, Watson visited the remote region of Svaneti in Georgia (country)|Georgia to take part in the inaugural Highlander Svaneti trek.[37]

In 2017, Watson shot all the inset photography for the Brick Lane Cookbook by food writer Dina Begum.[38][39]

Watson is a staunch advocate for spending time in nature and the outdoors and encourages others to make use of their local outdoor spaces by setting themselves "microchallenges".[40]

Personal life

Watson is in a relationship with British author Kia Abdullah.[41] Between his travels for Atlas & Boots, he resides in Richmond, North Yorkshire.[42] In 2016, Peter and Kia were interviewed by Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije on London Live (TV channel).[43]

References

  1. ↑ Don't Offer Papaya: 101 Tips for Your First Time Around the World. ASIN B01M02XD87.
  2. ↑ Outdoor Europe : epic adventures, incredible experiences and mindful escapes. Rachel Laidler. London. 2021. ISBN 978-0-241-51628-7. OCLC 1298681940.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ↑ "Author page". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  4. ↑ "Author page". The Independent. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  5. ↑ Watson, Peter. "The Djibouti lake posing as paradise". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  6. ↑ "i news". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ "Q&A with Atlas & Boots". National Geographic Expeditions. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  8. ↑ Reid, Laura (2020-10-27). "Why this writer has hiked to the summit of all Yorkshire Dales mountains". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  9. ↑ "Climb every mountain: The Richmond outdoorsman hiking to the top of all 41 peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  10. ↑ Chapman, Hannah (31 October 2020). "Climb every mountain: The Richmond outdoorsman hiking to the top of all 41 peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  11. ↑ Reid, Laura (27 October 2020). "Why this writer has hiked to the summit of all Yorkshire Dales mountains". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  12. ↑ Chapman, Hannah. "Climb every mountain: The Richmond outdoorsman hiking to the top of all 41 peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  13. ↑ Nicoll, Carolyn. "CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN". issuu. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  14. ↑ Needham, Jenny. "Climb every mountain | Living Magazine". issuu.com. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  15. ↑ Gibbs, Thom; Barber, Harriet (2020-03-31). "Coronavirus positive: good news round-up - the monastery making hand sanitiser". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  16. ↑ "Step by step: 'climb' the world's highest mountains without leaving your home". Atlas & Boots. 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  17. ↑ Aspden, Lucy (2020-04-14). "My trip to Everest was cancelled - so I climbed the world's highest mountain at home". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  18. ↑ Choat, Isabel (2020-04-03). "Trekking to Everest base camp – by climbing the stairs at home". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  19. ↑ Helmore, Edward (2019-07-26). "'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  20. ↑ "Another Fire in Greenland". Earth Observatory. 11 July 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ↑ Derrig, Anna (2021-10-22). "Experience: I escaped an Arctic wildfire". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  22. ↑ "Peter John Watson - Articles". www.peterjohnwatson.com. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  23. ↑ "Peter John Watson - Articles". www.peterjohnwatson.com. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  24. ↑ Outdoor Europe : epic adventures, incredible experiences and mindful escapes. Rachel Laidler. London. 2021. ISBN 978-0-241-51628-7. OCLC 1298681940.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  25. ↑ Hike : adventures on foot. Elspeth Beidas, Rachel Laidler. London. 2022. ISBN 978-0-241-55927-7. OCLC 1342247034.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  26. ↑ DK (2023). UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEYS EUROPE : discover the joys of slow travel. [S.l.]: DK EYEWITNESS TRAVEL. ISBN 978-0-241-60605-6. OCLC 1342103283.
  27. ↑ DK EYEWITNESS (2023). RUN : races and trails around the world. [S.l.]: DK EYEWITNESS TRAVEL. ISBN 978-0-241-61526-3. OCLC 1338833048.
  28. ↑ DK EYEWITNESS (2023). EUROPE BY TRAIN. [S.l.]: DK PUBLISHING. ISBN 978-0-241-61602-4. OCLC 1345221109.
  29. ↑ Planet, Lonely (2019). Ultimate United Kingdom travelist : the top 500 experiences in the UK...ranked. Carlton, Victoria. ISBN 978-1-78868-640-2. OCLC 1114327968.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  30. ↑ "Peter John Watson - Books". www.peterjohnwatson.com. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  31. ↑ @NatGeoUK (2015-02-14). "Best of the travel blogs: Jan/Feb 2015". National Geographic. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  32. ↑ "Atlas & Boots - the United Kingdom 2020". Lux Magazine. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  33. ↑ "Atlas & Boots (2021 Winner: Travel & Tourism Awards)". Lux Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  34. ↑ "Atlas & Boots (2022 Winner: UK Enterprise Awards)". SME News. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  35. ↑ "Next Of Kin". HarperCollins Australia. Retrieved 2022-01-24.
  36. ↑ "HIGHLANDER ambassador scouts the new HIGHLANDER Olympus trek". HIGHLANDER. 2021-11-24. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  37. ↑ "HIGHLANDER Svaneti, Georgia - Global Hiking Project Begins". CBW. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  38. ↑ BEGUM, DINA (2018). BRICK LANE COOKBOOK. [Place of publication not identified]: KITCHEN Press. ISBN 978-0-9570373-9-7. OCLC 1005102486.
  39. ↑ "Brick Lane Cookbook by Dina Begum - a Kitchen Press title". Kitchen Press. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  40. ↑ "Add a sense of adventure to lockdown exercise with a microchallenge". The Independent. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  41. ↑ "Buying a house with a white man was instructive and depressing and it taught me about privilege". inews.co.uk. 2021-02-16. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  42. ↑ "Semi-solo hiking brings me the gift of time alone, and the joy of reuniting". the Guardian. 2021-01-11. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  43. ↑ Armah, Claudia-Liza. "Interview with Atlas & Boots". London Live (TV channel).

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