Here’s a selection of the best bits from my blog last year along with the most read articles in 2016. Adventures we went on Laura and I had a good few small trips in 2016, some of which made it onto the blog. Look out for a bigger expediti... Read more
I get emails from people asking for help with something adventure related all the time. It’s one of the best things about running this website. I’m often struck by the breadth of topics that get covered and a cursory look back throug... Read more
It barely seemed as if last year’s grant winners had finished their adventures when this year’s lot got under way. Nick and Nell, in particular, did not hang around. They set off the very morning after winning the award. Their challe... Read more
Review of over 100 bikepacking bags and accessories Detailed information on over 100 pieces of bikepacking luggage including handlebar bags, saddle bags, custom frame bags, stem bags, top tube bags, fork bags and extendable bottle cages. Jump to... Read more
A step-by-step guide to making your own ration packs plus four recommended recipes from food blogger Holly Davies. I recently conducted a review of all the different dehydrated rations on the market. Dehydrated meals are really convenient but th... Read more
At the start of 2013, Elise Downing was not a runner. But a little over two years later, she was setting off to run 5,000 miles. Her remarkable run around the coast of Great Britain kept me constantly entertained, inspired and mind blown for its... Read more
A couple of weeks ago, I (Laura) gave a talk in Leeds as part of the Pedalling Ideas festival, an event which celebrated bike-based ideas. I was there to represent The Adventure Syndicate, an organisation which aims to encourage people, particul... Read more
The Helium Bivy is the new ultralight hooped bivvy bag from Outdoor Research. Overall, it’s an excellent ultralight bivi that also happens to be cheap. At 510 grams (18oz), it’s the lightest hooped bivi on the UK market by a long str... Read more
This time next week, Laura and I will be en route to our next expedition: walking across Ibiza. We’d been hatching big plans for a walking trip in Jordan. But it was a real pain trying to find flights that didn’t take forever and did... Read more
Everest is a mountain. ‘Everesting‘ is the act of climbing 8,848-metres. I once ran up 2,500 flights of stairs thus Everesting the Royal Geographical Society. Somewhat more impressively, 2015 Next Challenge Grant winner Mikey Bartley... Read more
Kate Rawles is one of the many impressive people who form The Adventure Syndicate. She cycled across the United States to engage people in climate change and is now about to take on South America with biodiversity as her theme. But first she nee... Read more
Over recent weeks and months I have listed all my favourite places for getting adventure ideas, described how to raise funds for an expedition or do one on the cheap, detailed how you plan the logistics of an expedition and explained why it migh... Read more
