Why LEJOG and Why LEJOG on foot?
LEJOG or JOGLE? The idea of walking north until the end of the land fascinates me. So I'm a LEJOGer. Pat Jilks decided to walk the end-to-end from north to south and flew from Gatwick to Inverness, catching buses to Wick and John o'Groats. "It was just how I wanted to do it," she said, "and psychologically, I'd be walking towards home." Why LEJOG? "Because it's there." That famous quote has been attributed to George Mallory in his response to a journalist from the New York Times who asked him why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. Because it's there is the sort of answer I expect an educated man like Mallory would have thrown at a reporter to shut him up. It's glaringly scant for a mountainous challenge like the first ascent of Everest, or even for LEJOG, and I'd be doing Mallory's expedition a disservice to use that phrase out of context. Wade Davis t he historian who wrote Into The Silence ab...