Faraz Shibli is a British travel writer, speaker and adventurer. He is a contributor to two books, and his words have been published by the i newspaper, British GQ, BBC Travel (with Lonely Planet), FOX 4 News and The Great Outdoors.

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Faraz is passionate about remote places and slow travel. His expeditions have included leading Bactrian camels 1,600km across Mongolia's Gobi Desert; walking through the Darién Gap; living with Kazakh eagle hunters; crossing Mongolia south to north by horse, road and rail; walking through the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan; and cycling through Laos and Thailand.

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A barrister by day and an adventurer by… well, just other days, really

—British GQ

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Faraz is also a barrister specialising in international law and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was born and grew up in Scotland and educated at Warwick and Oxford. He now lives in a village in Northamptonshire.