Built on the trail.

Before we started walking together, one of us had completed London to Paris by bike in 2019 and cycled across Sardinia solo. Shortly after, we met — and with a shared need to stay active without the constraints of taking bikes everywhere, long distance walking became the obvious answer.

We'd both become bogged down with our exercise routines — the same sessions, the same routes, the same feeling of going through the motions. Walking gave us something different. A reason to move that wasn't just fitness.

Over the next few years we walked in Iceland, Italy, France, Switzerland, Wales, Croatia, India, Vietnam, Ecuador, the Galápagos, and Cambodia. Each route was different — different terrain, different weather, different demands — but the experience of being out there for days at a time, moving under our own power, was always the same.

We've also taken to two wheels together — a 10-day cycle from Ho Chi Minh City to Angkor Wat being the highlight. We record each day on Strava — not very professional, but it does the job. Accommodation is whatever the route demands: homestays where they exist, a tent when they don't.

Ripstop Media is our attempt to document that experience honestly. Not the curated version — the real one. The blisters, the wrong turns, the moments when the cloud lifts and you see something that stops you in your tracks.