Philippe Galland works as a Category Manager here at brasher.

Outside the office he can usually be found, trekking, mountaineering or biking in some remote part of the UK's wilderness.

(Incidentally, you can see some of Philippe's excellent photography here on our Flickr page.)

Earlier this year, Philippe married the lovely Clare, however for one reason and another, they had to postpone their honeymoon, but this Christmas, the couple will correct this in some style when they jet off on a 3 week South American jaunt.

Philippe promises to file a report about their travels when they gets back from Rio De Janeiro, Buenos Aires, the Amazon rainforest and the Andes in Peru, and of course will let us all know how the brasher boots perform.

Until then, here's just a flavour of the kind of thing Philippe gets up to:

"My girlfriend, (now wife) and I were in France a couple years ago walking in the high plateau of Vercors in the middle of summer. It was a very hot day and I actually left my water bottle and whole supply behind in a hut – too late to go back. We couldn't find any accessible point to drink as there was a serious draught up on the plateau. We became very, very thirsty and needed to re-hydrate quickly before any serious problems developed. The only spring shown on a map was very dry and any water it offered was very difficult to reach, way below ground. The question was, 'How to reach it?' But luckily, needs must, and an idea occurred to us. I used my Goretex boots with all the laces attached together to create a small rope and as it is water proof.. I could fill up my boot and drink it - Tasted sock though but thanks to my brasher boots and Goretex's ability to keep water in sometimes as well as out, the rest of the day was saved."

Hope you don't have to 'rough it' quite as much on your belated honeymoon Philippe.