AFTER trekking thousands of miles, adventurer John Pilkinton has earned his reputation as one of Britain’s greatest tellers of travellers’ tales.

In 1983 he completed a 500-mile solo crossing of the western Nepal Himalaya and told the story in his first book Into Thin Air.

Three years later he returned to Asia to become one of the first modern travellers to retrace virtually the whole of the Silk Road.

John has mapped the source of the Mekong, and one of only five people in modern times to have walked the 1,600-mile Royal Road of the Incas through the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.

And in 2013 he walked and hitch-hiked from Trieste to Istanbul while exploring the Balkan mountains.

John recounts tales from his latest adventure at Clacton Arts and Lits Society at the Princes Theatre on Monday from 7.30pm.

Tickets are £10 on the door for non-members from 7.15pm.