Peter John Watson
• Travel Writer •
Peter John Watson is a travel writer and founder of outdoor travel blog Atlas & Boots. A keen trekker and climber he can usually be found on the trails of the Greater Ranges. He’s visited over 90 countries and all seven continents and is currently focused on climbing the seven summits – the highest mountain on every continent. Four down, three to go...
Peter's work has been featured by The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC Travel, The Independent, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Cicerone Guides, Fodor's and Wanderlust among others.
Peter has contributed to several travel anthologies including Outdoor Europe, a round-up of the continent’s best outdoor experiences by DK Eyewitness, and Lonely Planet's Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist and Best In Travel series. He is currently working on his debut novel.
Peter is also an experienced photographer. His images have been published in magazines, newspapers, journals and books.
About
Born in a not-quite dystopian 1984 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, for nearly 20 years Peter fell asleep to the sound of the North Sea. In 2003, he moved to Cambridge to study film and music. Following graduation, he worked as an audiovisual engineer. In 2007, Peter moved to London and continued to work in digital media. In 2010, he gained his teaching qualification and taught creative media and computer science.
In 2014, Peter left teaching and founded the outdoor travel blog Atlas & Boots, now read by over 250,000 people a month. He is happiest in the outdoors, poring over maps or watching test match cricket. Other than climbing the seven summits, his ‘life to-do list’ includes sailing the Atlantic Ocean, visiting at least half the states in the world and delivering an after-dinner speech.