Andy Symington hails from Australia and, after much time spent prowling and working in various corners of the world, he settled in Spain, where he has now lived for several years.

James spent his early childhood in Southeast Asia and has since jumped at any excuse to return to these parts.

Richard Arghiris first visited Latin America in 2003, when he travelled between the capitals of Mexico and Panamá on a journey spanning seven countries, 10 months, and many kilometers of winding road.

Edward Aves first fell in love with South Asia when he packed in his publishing job in London and took off on a three-month trip to India in 1996.

Between them, Matt, Chris and Ewan have almost half a century of snowboarding experience under their belts.

Vanessa Betts is a writer and editor from England

Claire Boobbyer is a freelance writer, editor and photographer and has had an attachment to all things Latin ever since she backpacked around South America over 10 years ago.

One of the first assignments Ben Box took as a freelance writer in 1980 was sub-editing work on the South American Handbook

After a degree in Latin American Studies, Sarah Cameron has been travelling and writing on the continent ever since, both as an economist and as an author for Footprint

Australian-born Lucy E Cousins started travelling at the age of 18 months when she crawled across the road in front of her house – much to her mother’s horror.

Annie Dare is a writer and journalist based in north London

Scot, Darroch Donald, has two major passions in life – wildlife and travel.

Gyurme Dorje was born in Edinburgh in 1950.

Hardly enamoured with formal education in early life, Jane soon decided she did not want an office job.

All his life Steve has possessed an unending passion to explore the world’s wild places, its wildlife and its people.

Matthew Gardner grew up in London (England, not Ontario!), gaining a French degree from Bristol Univeristy, and a teaching diploma from Goldsmiths College, London.

A descendant of the hardy souls who founded much of New England and further afield, Geoff spent his youth alternating between Portugal’s ridiculously sunny Algarve coast and Massachusetts’ occasionally sunny North Shore.

It’s hard to say which was the more pivotal moment of William Gray’s travelling career – surviving his first long-haul flight with toddler twins or clinching the coveted Travel Writer of the Year award in 2002.

Julius Honnor is a travel writer and photographer based in London

Peter first travelled through Central and South America between 1993 and 1995 after gaining a degree in Development Studies, specializing in Latin American Studies, from Reading University.

Janak Jani was born in London and spent part of his childhood in France and East Africa, before going on to read Philosophy at Cambridge.

Robert Joseph is one of the most widely travelled wine writers in the world. Since living in Burgundy in the early 1980s and returning to the UK to found Wine International magazine, he has visited vineyards and wineries on every continent and in out-of-the-way places including Cuba, China, Uruguay and Zimbabwe.

Francisca Kellett first visited Africa as an anthropology student in the mid-1990s and has since found it hard to stay away.

Born and raised in Ecuador (Quito and Riobamba), Daisy Isacovici’s pet peeve is being mistaken for a gringa. Robert Kunstaetter hails from Montreal, where Daisy attended university.

Richard Leonardi first started travelling extensively in Latin America in 1992, while working on a documentary photography series that took him to eight countries in eight years

When Alan Murphy upped sticks and left the fleshpots of Dundee to start his own seaweed-collecting business on a remote island croft, many saw it as a cry for kelp.

Chris Moran has spent most of his adult life in and around the Alps, first as a pro snowboarder throughout the nineties and early noughties, and more recently as an action sports journalists...

Chris Nelson and Demi Taylor are two of Europe’s leading surf travel writers with a combined surf travel experience of over 30 years.

West Australian Katrina O’Brien studied journalism in Perth before travelling in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Several years in book publishing taught her the value of a deadline and how to understand authors.

Alex Robinson (www.alexrobinsonphotography.co.uk) is a writer and photographer based in Brazil and the UK

Andrew Spooner is a feature, travel and sports writer and photographer.

Born and raised in the vibrant suburbs of Peterborough, writer and photographer David Stott acquired his taste for India in the womb.

Inveterate Aussiephile Andrew Swaffer travelled and worked on and off for several years around parts of Asia, Australia and New Zealand while attempting to hold down various jobs in book publishing in the UK.

Caroline Sylger Jones is passionate about feeling good and eating well. A specialist on spas and retreats around the world and a dedicated yoga practitioner, she works as a travel writer for national and international magazines, newspapers and websites, and has appeared on the radio as an expert on wellbeing holidays.

Our love of all things underwater first developed whilst snorkelling in Mexico during a round the world trip in the late 80s. We returned to London, gained our BSAC qualifications and headed off to do our first open water dives.

Originally from London, Lizzie has worked and lived in Africa for 14 years.