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John Manning is an award-winning outdoor journalist with more than 20 years of experience in newspapers and magazines.
After 13 years as deputy editor of TGO (The Great Outdoors) Magazine, he has recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales to specialise in outdoor writing and photography as a freelance.
After completing the National Council for the Training of Journalists course in Darlington, John began his professional career with the Todmorden News as a cub reporter. He left two years later, as assistant editor, for a brief spell on the Brighouse Echo before joining the Evening Courier in Halifax, as a senior sub-editor.
While at the Courier, John wrote and edited the paper’s outdoor column, Best Foot Forward, for which he won three awards in successive years.
He joined TGO in 1994 and won two awards for technical writing – gear reviews to most folk – as well as hosting many of the magazine’s annual reader treks and completing the magazine-sponsored annual TGO Challenge cross-Scotland backpack eight times.
An accomplished backpacker, John has hiked in Finland, Nepal, India, Peru, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, New Zealand (main photo) and many other countries. In 2004 he completed the 2700-mile Pacific Crest Trail, taking six months to hike from Mexico to Canada. Last year he hiked California’s John Muir Trail.
He continues to write and photograph for TGO and other sections of the specialist outdoor media, covering walks, equipment, profiles of outdoor personalities (see photo of Sprayway designer Julie Goodyear, above).
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Freelance outdoor writing, editing and photography.
Former deputy editor, TGO Magazine (13 years).
Occasional sub-editor, Sunday Herald, Glasgow.
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| Backpacking narratives, feature and news writing, sub-editing, commissioning, photography and more...
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Outdoor Writers’ Guild Awards for Excellence: Technical Writing 1997 & 1998.
Yorkshire Newspaper Society Columnist of the Year 1991, 1992 and 1993.
Regular contributor – features, routes, podcasts, photography, news stories, gear reviews and more – to TGO Magazine and other UK outdoor titles
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Author (chapter on Ultimate Everest Trek)
Classic Treks: The 30 Most Spectacular Hikes in the World, various authors, edited by Bill Birkett, published by David & Charles (UK) and Bulfinch Press (US) (2000)
Author
25 Walks in the South Pennines, published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (1997)
Text editor
The Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish, by Cameron McNeish, published by Neil Wilson Publishing, Glasgow (2001)
Front cover photographer
The Munros and Tops, by Chris Townsend, published by Mainstream (first edition, 1997)
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| Long distance hiking & backpacking; outdoor equipment; all aspects of walking and trekking in the UK and abroad; the politics of the outdoors including access, conservation, wild land protection and campaigning for a UK Triple Crown of long distance hiking trails, to rival the PCT, CDT and AT in the US.
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