Tickets are now on sale for the Cycle Touring Festival 2018. Buy tickets here. The Cycle Touring Festival is an annual event, celebrating all things cycling and touring. It is organised by my wife, Laura (with help from me) and is about to ente... Read more
The Channel Islands might not be the first destination that springs to mind when planning an expedition but it is eactly where Next Challenge Grant winner, Amanda McDonnell, chose for her adventure earlier this year. She ran 110 miles across the... Read more
Next Challenge Grant winner Tina Page has just run the British Three Peaks: Snowden, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis. She didn’t just run up them, she ran between them too: 500 miles in total. And, to cap it all off, she only started running th... Read more
An article appeared in The Times on Saturday that mentioned me and The Next Challenge Grant. You can read it here. At first, I was excited. It’s not every day that you get mentioned in a national paper and, even better, it plugged my grant... Read more
What is the thinnest camping mat you can get? This is exactly the kind of niche, nerdy question that I love so I was delighted to receive just such a query through my website this week. Quick answer: Get an 8mm-thick Multimat Superlite 8 or pay... Read more
On first reading, nothing about ‘cycling a beach cruiser around Costa Rica’ sounds especially tough. It sounds like a fun trip, somewhere warm. The reality, however, is that Next Challenge Grant winner Dylan Haskin had quite an adven... Read more
This article gives a detailed review of all the best sleeping pads and air mattresses. It is based on 17 years’ experience and has been used by tens of thousands of people. There is a detailed buyer’s guide, a series of comparison ta... Read more
2016 Next Challenge Grant winner Thommo Hart recently walked and ran one thousand miles across South Africa, with his friend Simphiwe Ngcobo. They dragged carts filled with their supplies across tar so hot you could fry an egg on it (which they... Read more
Earlier this year, Laura and I undertook an expedition to walk across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal in Siberia. It was a beautiful place. As well as taking lots of photos, we did some filming. Given that it took us four months just to edit t... Read more
In March, Laura and I travelled to Lake Baikal in Siberia to walk across its frozen surface. This blog post shares our photos. Click here to watch the video. We started out from Olkhon Island, an area famous for Shamanism… Be... Read more
Starting in the summer of 2013, Laura and I spent 16 months cycling around the world. We travelled 13,000 miles through 27 countries and 4 continents, met dozens of fascinating characters and saw all manner of things. It felt like we had enough... Read more
Early on Saturday morning, several groups of women (and a few men) gathered with their bikes at a range of locations across the UK. Their intention was to cycle 100 miles. Most of them had never cycled that far before. Many of them were not sure... Read more
