Globe-trotting extreme runner picks up award for travel blog

Alice Morrison has won a writing award for her blog about Moroccan life and running across the Sahara Desert.

Alice Hunter Morrison, 52, won the prestigious Best Africa Blog award for 2016 from www.runultra.co.uk, the leading global website for trail and ultra running.

Alice, who splits her time between homes in the High Peak and Marrakesh, has been documenting her travels and endurance trials since 2010.

She has been writing about Morocco for two years, inspired by her love of the country and its people. Her blog covers life there as seen through her eyes.

Alice said: “It is a long way from Hayfield, but it shares some characteristics of the Peak - the kindness and hospitality of the people and the beauty of the landscape.

“Also, everyone likes nothing more than to sit down and have a cup of tea. The weather, though, is a little bit different.”

Congratulating her on the award, RunUltra owner Steve Diederich said: “Alice brings a life and vivacity to everything she writes about and we felt she really captures the spirit of Morocco and what it is like to live, run and adventure there. She is a very worthy winner.”

A former journalist who now advises on crisis communications for organisations across the Middle East and North Africa, Alice writes frequently about her runs in the Atlas mountains. She recently completed the 156-mile Sahara desert race the Marathon Des Sables. Read all about it at www.alicemorrison.co.uk.