James Willcox

James Willcox is the Founder of the adventure travel company Untamed Borders. He launched in the company in 2007, running bespoke trips and small group adventures to some of the world’s most challenging and inaccessible places - such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Yemen and many other countries across the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and the Caucasus. Along with the many group tours annually and 100s of private trips each year, James also organised the first ever international ski trips to Afghanistan in 2011 and organised regular ski trips to the country ever since. He also played an important role in the development of skiing in Iraq, with Untamed Borders becoming the first international company to offer ski trips to the nation and co-organised the annual Choman Winter Festival, a ski competition in the Kurdish north of the country. James also co-founded the Marathon of Afghanistan , along with the the first ever Somaliland Marathon . James is the author if the