Luke Summers / Sadly, most of the world’s great winter adventures can’t be attempted in a week’s annual leave. With that in mind, and spurred on by his sister’s boyfriend, Luke headed to the Alps to attempt the Haute Route, a five day ski-touring passage from Chamonix to Zermatt.

Derek Goodisson / tells us of his surgical mission to the worlds worst healthcare system – Myanmar. Inundated with patients, constrained by etiquette but overwhelmed by hospitality. He begs you to visit too.

Dr Steve Alcorn / Dr Jenny Linnemann / Share their experiences of life and medicine at Isilimela Hospital and Madwaleni Hospital in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

Adam Hollingworth / The Speight’s Coast to Coast World Multisport Championship is an annual event held in the South Island of New Zealand. It is the longest and hardest race on the Multisport Circuit. Participants hurl themselves across the island on road bikes, kayaks and tired legs. At stake: a cold can of Speight’s beer and entry into the exclusive club of Coast to Coast finishers.

Sam Crimmin presents her extraordinary astrophotography and wildlife images from her British Antarctic Survey trip to South Georgia. Featuring star trails, the milky way, shipwrecks, penguins and seals, they are a joy to behold.