In the Press

Atlas & Boots has been featured in hundreds of publications, websites and blogs. You can find links to relevant coverage below, along with articles and photography that Kia and Peter have contributed to other outlets.

World’s best outdoor travel blog

Atlas & Boots has been repeatedly named the world’s best outdoor or adventure travel blog by a number of awards and publications. We are also frequently listed among the world’s top travel blogs.

• Best Outdoor Travel Blog, LUXlife Magazine Travel & Tourism Awards 2020 and 2021
• Outdoor Travel Blog of the Year 2022, SME Enterprise Awards
• Best Travel Blogs From Around The World 2023, Expert Vagabond
• Top Adventure Travel Blogs 2023, Ready Aim Travel
• 13 Best Travel Blogs in 2023, Global Viewpoint
• 100 Best Travel Blogs To Read 2023, FeedSpot
• 10 Best Travel Blogs 2023, The Packable Life
• Best Sustainable Travel Blogs 2022, Inside the Travel Lab
• Best Outdoors and Adventure Travel Blog 2022, Mindful Wonderer
• Best Travel Blogs, Lonely Planet
• Blog of the Month (Jan/Feb 2015), National Geographic

Lonely Planet

Atlas & Boots are brand ambassadors for Lonely Planet through the Trailblazers program. This includes working closely with Lonely Planet’s editorial and social teams and contributing to their website, magazine, books and social channels.

• Trekking to K2 base camp in Pakistan: everything you need to know, article, 2019
• My search for silence on Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail, article, 2019
• Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist, judging panel, contribution, 2019
• Best in Travel, judging panel, 2017-present
• Diversity in Travel, talk, 2018
• Love at first hike: how adventure travel can bring you closer, article, 2018
• Wild at heart: classic romantic trips with an adventurous twist, article, 2018
• Just back from: Djibouti, interview, 2018
• Mount Elbrus: how to climb Europe’s highest peak, article, 2018
• Best places to travel in August, contribution, 2016
• Best places to travel in July, contribution, 2016
• Best places to travel in June, contribution, 2016

BBC

• Radio interview, 2018
• The Djibouti lake posing as paradise, article, 2018
• Radio interview, 2017

National Geographic

• Q & A with Atlas & Boots, 2019
• National Geographic Traveller’s best of the travel blogs, 2015

The Telegraph

• Why Pakistan should be your pick for a post-lockdown adventure, article, 2021
• Coronavirus positive: good news round-up, round-up, 2020

The Guardian

• Experience: I escaped an Arctic wildfire, article, 2021
• Semi-solo hiking brings me the gift of time alone, and the joy of reuniting, article, 2021
• When my mother said she was lonely, I knew I had to relearn my Bengali language, 2020
• Peter’s featured photography, 2019
• Kia’s author page at the Guardian, 2008 to present

The Independent

• No pictures, please! The charming army of penguins not for Instagram, article, 2022
• Hiking the Velebit Trail: Croatia has been hiding one of Europe’s great treks, article, 2021
• Add a sense of adventure to lockdown exercise with a microchallenge, article, 2021

The i Paper

• How to search high – and local – for new outdoor adventures, article, 2021

Wanderlust magazine

• 12 of the world’s greatest wildlife destinations, contribution, 2017
• 7 of the world’s most unforgettable wildlife experiences, contribution, 2017
• 10 fantastic European cities for a winter city break, contribution, 2017

Fodor’s Travel

• The Bizarre Legend Behind Myanmar’s Strangest Sight, article, 2021
• I Escaped a Wildfire in the Arctic Circle, article, 2021

New York Times

• Childless in a Houseful of Children, essay, 2017

Outside magazine

• Best Trips of 2020, contributor, 2020

Condé Nast Traveller

• Why sustainable travel is as much about diversity as it is about the planet, contributor, 2020

London Live

The founders of Atlas & Boots have been interviewed on London Live TV channel, dedicated to news, entertainment and culture in London.

Vogue Australia

• 39 of the most colourful places around the world, photography, 2019

Cosmopolitan France

• 10 best travel blogs, featured, 2020

Atlas Obscura

• Abuna Yemata Guh, Ethiopia, photography, 2017

Lastminute.com

A campaign produced for Experience Oman and lastminute.com. View the entire series of short videos and photography on lastminute.com’s microsite.

G Adventures

• Kia’s profile on G Adventures, 2016 to 2017
• Peter’s profile on G Adventures, 2017

Matador Network

• Atlas & Boots’ author page on Matador Network, 2015 to 2018

Business Insider

• 10 unknown breathtaking hikes around the world, 2016
• 6 things you should never say to an expat, 2015
• 5 tips for talking to strangers while travelling, 2015

Stock Photo Portfolios

• Peter’s profile on Stock by Getty Images
• Peter’s profile on Shutterstock

Local press

The founders lived in the Yorkshire Dales for three years. During that time, they were featured in a number of local publications.

• Climb Every Mountain, This Is Y Magazine, 2020
• Climb Every Mountain, Living Magazine, 2020
• Outdoorsman hikes all 41 peaks in the Yorkshire Dales, Darlington & Stockton Times, 2020
• Richmond writer hikes all Yorkshire Dales mountains, The Yorkshire Post, 2020
• How Kia Abdullah hopes to open up conversations, The Yorkshire Post, 2020
• Author and travel writer relocates to Richmond, Richmondshire Today, 2019

Other press

• How to Plan a Climbing Road Trip, Climbing Magazine, 2022
• Global Hiking Project Begins in Georgia, Caucasus Business Week, 2022
• Blog À Part, Arc-en-Ciel Magazine 2020
• Escaping wildfire on Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail, Cicerone, 2020
• Climbing Aconcagua, interview, Magnificent World 2020
• Lessons learned from 60 countries of travel, 2019
• Trek & Mountain Magazine, 2019
• 10 Great Blogs to Follow in 2019, 2019
• Top Ten Travel Blogs of 2019, 2019
• Top Travel Blogs with 100,000+ monthly visitors, 2018
• Top 50 Travel Blogs, 2018
• The Chosen Few, Shortlist Magazine, 2018
• The Best Cities in Australia & New Zealand, 2018
• HotelsCombin ed: Top UK Travel Blogs, 2017
• Wanders Miles, 2017
• LoveEXPLORING, 2017
• That Backpacker, 2017
• Hackney Gazette, 2016
• Get Lost magazine, 2016
• Travel Writers Radio, 2016
• Atlas Coffee Club, 2016
• Hero & Leander, 2015

Kia’s novels

HarperCollins publish Kia’s crime novels in the UK and St. Martin’s Press in the US.

• Book 101, The Times and Sunday Times Crime Club, Aug 2022
• The joy of crime fiction: authors from Lee Child to Paula Hawkins pick their favourite books, The Guardian, Jul 2022
• The Muslim women who are transforming crime fiction, The i paper, Jul 2022
• Heatseekers Fiction Top 10, print version, The Bookseller, May 2022
• The best new thrillers for September 2021, The Times
• Murder, Murder Everywhere, New York Times
• The best recent crime and thrillers, The Guardian
• The 27 best thrillers and crime novels of 2019 so far, The Telegraph
• The best new thrillers, The Sunday Times
• Take It Back review, The Telegraph Bookshop
• HQ teams with reading app The Pigeonhole on ‘industry first’ serialisation, The Bookseller
• Top 5 British legal thrillers, The Big Issue
• The 14 best books to read in summer 2019, Now Toronto
• Books to read in 2019, The Asian Writer
• 32 works of fiction to watch for this fall, CBC Canada
• 10 Things I’d like my readers to know about me, Female First
• Five things I learned writing Take It Back, Chuck Wendig
• Binge-worthy books, Savvy Reader
• Interview with Kia Abdullah, Christina McDonald

Peter’s travel anthologies

Peter has contributed to five travel anthologies published by Penguin Randon House and Dorling Kindersley.

• Europe by Train, May 2023
• Run, April 2023
• Unforgettable Journeys Europe, May 2023
• Hike, July 2022
• Outdoor Europe, Sep 2021