New Lanzarote hiking weekend feels just like being on Mars
20 Jul 2019
Evening Standard
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I am 1300ft up, hiking along a ridge of volcanic rock. The only sound I can hear is the boot-on-gravel crunch of the guide ahead. The air is so thick I feel I'm breathing through an astronaut's ventilator, a sense enhanced by the otherworldly formations o