After a long career in education, information technology and academic publishing, Jacquetta became interested in long-distance walking and trekking. After completing the West Highland Way, her first long walk, in 1998 she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she has since summited four times by different routes. She founded Rucksack Readers in 2000 and is the author/coauthor of 27 of its guidebooks, several of them award-winning. She is a Life Member of the Dales Way Association and last walked the route in late 2025.

After a long career in education, information technology and academic publishing, Jacquetta became interested in long-distance walking and trekking. After completing the West Highland Way, her first long walk, in 1998 she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she has since summited four times by different routes. She founded Rucksack Readers in 2000 and is the author/coauthor of 27 of its guidebooks, several of them award-winning. She is a Life Member of the Dales Way Association and last walked the route in late 2025.

After a long career in education, information technology and academic publishing, Jacquetta became interested in long-distance walking and trekking. After completing the West Highland Way, her first long walk, in 1998 she progressed to Mount Kilimanjaro, which she has since summited four times by different routes. She founded Rucksack Readers in 2000 and is the author/coauthor of 27 of its guidebooks, several of them award-winning. She is a Life Member of the Dales Way Association and last walked the route in late 2025.