Encounters on the Holy Mountain: Stories from Mount Athos

Peter Howorth and Chris Thomas are long time members of the Friends of Mount Athos and veterans of multiple path-clearing pilgrimages to the Holy Mountain which is how they met. Despite living on opposite sides of the planet, their mutual passion for the planet, geography, pilgrimage and of course Mount Athos has underpinned their collaboration. Peter produces maps of the Holy Mountain that have sold to over 44 countries, and this work has fuelled his love for the place and the men.
He is an engineer, and had a career managing major projects internationally, and started drawing maps when invited to help with the republication of ‘Dare to be Free' - a WW2 memoir that involved the Holy Mountain. He is a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society. Chris Thomas is the managing director of a successful sports technology business. He is a trustee of the Friends of Mount Athos, a member of Mensa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and, like Peter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
He is the proud father of three adult children, he loves Arsenal FC and football in general and is proud to have coined the slogan for EURO 96 : 'Football Comes Home', which has since become part of common parlance.