Damian Hall

Damian Hall is a outdoor journalist and author who grew up in Nailsworth. He didn't think much to the Cotswolds when young because they didn't have any good football teams and Radiohead never played there. He travelled and lived abroad for eight years, trekked many of the world's famous and not so famous long-distance trails, fell down mountains in New Zealand and had a walking boot stolen by a hungry possum in Australia. Yet when time came to settle down Damian came back to the Cotswolds, where he lives with his two children and a new walking boot. The tea-loving hillbilly says the Cotswolds do something pleasingly odd to him deep inside somewhere. Forced to pick a favourite spot, it would have to be Uley Bury's dramatic hillfort. He also wrote the official guide to the Pennine Way and three running books, including the bestselling Run Forever. More info at ultradamo.com.

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