British explorer is dubbed ‘the Lonely Snow Leopard’ after becoming first person to walk across Mongolia solo

Posted by on Mar 26, 2015 @ 5:48 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: March 25, 2015

A recording-breaking adventurer from North Wales has claimed the title of National Adventurer of the Year following his epic journey across landlocked Mongolia. Ash Dykes, 24, who is nicknamed the ‘lonely snow leopard’, last year impressively spent 78 days alone, crossing 1,500 miles of the unforgiving Gobi Desert and the vast Mongolian steppe. The...

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