Dick Everard is 75 years old and a retired civil engineer who spent a considerable part of his career working overseas. Being brought up on a farm, he has always spent as much time as possible outdoors and beside walking enjoys trout and salmon fishing and game shooting as well as enjoying picking up with his labrador, Rice. Dick has walked the GR20 in Corsica; the GR5 in France; the TMB in France; Switzerland and Italy; the Haute Route Pyrenees in Spain and France; The Walker's Haute Route in France and Switzerland; the Manaslu Circuit in Nepal; the GR53 in the Vosges Massif (Alsace, France); the Alta Via 1 in the Dolomites of Italy and the Tour of the Écrins National Park in the French Alps.