Author: Tim Moss
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On the Ice
As of 9am this morning, we are on our way to Russia and the shores of Lake Baikal. We will spend two weeks in Siberia, crossing the frozen surface of Lake Baikal on foot, camping on the ice. You can read the full details of what we are planning here. Our itinerary is below along…
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Failure is My Fear (Worse Would Be Not Trying)
Heather Jones is about to set off to cycle between, hike up and swim on the slopes of the Welsh Three Peaks. She was one of the winners of last year’s Next Challenge Grant and has very kindly been loaned one of Simon Stanforth’s excellent expedition bikes for the trip. Below, Heather explains what’s motivated…
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Walking Every National Trail in England and Wales
This time last year, a 19-year-old Abbie Barnes wrote an article for this blog declaring her ambition to walk the length of every National Trail in England and Wales. Now, a year later, she’s reporting back on how she’s get on… (Abbie won £200 from my adventure grant. You can read more about it, make…
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Would You Donate £3 Towards Someone Else’s Adventure?
Background to The Next Challenge Grant Every year I put forward £200 of my own money as a grant to pay for someone else’s expedition. Several other ‘adventurers’ chip in too. Now I’m looking for 100+ members of the public to donate £3 each to put into the pot. I first did this in…
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Expedition to Siberia: Crossing Frozen Lake Baikal
Next month, Laura and I will be travelling to Siberia to walk across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal. Friends, family and colleagues often ask us what our next trip’s going to be. I don’t always have an interesting response but recently my answer’s been ‘Siberia’ and it has elicited a lot of intrigue. When…
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Nate’s Big Commute
We’ve had some big expeditions come through The Next Challenge Grant: running 5,000 miles around the coast of Great Britain and crossing Kyrgyzstan on foot to name two. But we’ve also had some smaller adventures too like cycling the Berlin Wall and up Alpe d’Huez and today we have another. Nathan Freeman’s idea was as…
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2017 Next Challenge Grant Open for Applications
The Next Challenge Grant is now open for applications. Apply here. The grant typically awards between £100 and £200 for expeditions and small adventures. It’s open to anyone, anywhere in the world. The money comes from me (£200), several other adventurers (£100-200 each) and, hopefully, donations from a hundred members of the public (£3 each).…
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5 Nights in 5 Bothies with a 5 Year Old
Anyone who applies for The Next Challenge Grant has to summarise their idea in a single sentence. I get people to do that partly because I think it’s good practice to be get your pitch as succinct as possible. It’s also partly because it takes ages to read the hundreds of applications I get so…
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Walking Across Ibiza
Ibiza is best known as the clubbing capital of the world. But it’s also a beautiful island in its own right. We reckoned it would be a great place for an adventure so booked some budget flights, packed our bags EasyJet Alpine style (expedition kit that’s hand luggage only) and set off to cross the…
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Running Across Kyrgyzstan
Grant winner Jenny Tough has recently returned from a remarkable trip: running the length of Kyrgyzstan. My first ever expedition was to Kyrgyzstan so I’ve got a soft spot for the place but even without my rose tinted memories it would be hard to conclude that running across a Central Asian mountain range was anything…
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Best of 2016
Here’s a selection of the best bits from my blog last year along with the most read articles in 2016. [divide] 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 expedition early this year. Crossing Ibiza:…