In his time, he has run twenty-five Great North Run half-marathons in twenty-six years, trekked to 6000m in Nepal, done a 4000m tandem parachute jump and crossed the highest mountain pass in the world. He began writing, like John Buchan, because he ran out of penny-novels to read and felt he should write his own. Fred loves a good story, which is why he writes. Catch Fred online at: www.frednath.com