At Footloose we pride ourself on the personal service we offer – a service backed up by many years in the travel business and the very wide experience of our staff.

Roger in front of our more comfortable premises in the centre of Ilkley.

Roger Gook has spent a lifetime travelling to remote parts of the world. He has organised and led adventure treks in the Himalayas, climbing trips in the Andes, safaris in East Africa, desert travel with the Bedouin in Egypt, jungle trips in the Amazon and a lot of other trips in many other countries. Roger used this experience to set up a major trekking company nearly 25 years ago. Eleven years ago he took on another challenge and yet another company was born, this time starting in his spare room - Footloose Adventure Travel. Nowadays many of his trips are spent sailing in various parts of the world.

Janet McDougall's career in business was becoming severely disrupted by trips to interesting parts of the world. Ten years ago, after a couple of trips with Footloose, she took the sensible step of becoming one of the directors. Her travels have taken her through the USA and Australia, overlanding through Africa, trekking in Nepal and Europe, Kenya, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Sweden and Iceland. She has climbed Kilimanjaro five times and returned from Aconcagua with frost nip in her big toe. In the last few years she has travelled to Patagonia, Outer Mongolia and Namibia.

Susanne Muskita is Dutch and of Moluccan origin. After studying journalism, she travelled all over the world. She worked as a tour guide on several continents and led trips as diverse as tiger safaris in India, hiking in Alaska, cultural tours in Syria and Jordan and safaris in Africa. Susanne loves her mountains and has been to the summit of Kilimanjaro seven times. Since she joined Footloose six years ago, she has been to Kenya,the Galapagos, walked the GR20 in Corsica, Norway,Borneo, the Alps,Aconcagua,Mera Peak, Vietnam and Cambodia.She was recently made director at Footloose.

Richard Lowe is our financial controller. Although originally from Lincolnshire, he runs the company like a real Yorkshireman, when it comes to looking after the Footloose pennies. Richard prefers to holiday in the UK and you can often spot him along the river, with his flat cap and fishing rod, listening to the cricket on the radio and watching the trains go by.

Lesley Claxton is from London and proud of it. She has been with Footloose for nearly eight years now. She does all the administration and in her meticulous way is able to spot any glitches in the bookings immediately. Lesley has travelled to the Far East, Australia and the USA. In the summer she tends to explore Europe with her daughter and son. She recently went on a familiarisation trip to South Africa and she has been on a family adventure to Slovenia where she went rafting amongst other activities.

Pauline Williams is an ex-teacher and has changed the classroom for the exciting office environment at Footloose. Pauline is in charge of the brochures and helps out with the general administration. She has travelled with Explore to the Adirondacks in New England and her other ventures include travel through Australia, safari in Kenya and skiing in Canada.

Kay Sanderson is the latest addition to the Footloose team. She has over thirty years of travel experience and has travelled to over a hundred countries. She has been on three long overland trips, covering Africa and South and Central America in the seventies and Australasia in the eighties. Nowadays she is more interested in wildlife trips and has been to exotic destinations like Kamchaka in Russia to see the bears and Antarctica. Once a week, Kay leads her hiking group through the beautiful Yorkshire countryside.

Seb Mellor is our computer lad. He has worked on the Footloose website for over two years, three times a week after school. He has visited France, Corfu, Mallorca, Egypt, Turkey and Canada, where he has relatives. He likes camping and mountain biking and really enjoyed his trip to Arran in Scotland, two years ago.
He is now reading Mathematics at Newcastle University, and will be travelling in Kenya this summer with friends.