The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • Cycling the Berlin Wall

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    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 challenge was to hire a pair of bikes and pedal them the length of the…

  • Comparison of Bikepacking Bags

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    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: Overview | Handlebar Bags | Saddle Bags | Frame Bags | Accessories | Manufacturers | Spreadsheet [divide]…

  • How To Make Your Own Ration Packs

    How To Make Your Own Ration Packs

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    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 they’re expensive and don’t taste as good as normal food. However, it is quite possible to have…

  • Difficulty Isn’t Proportional to Distance – A 5,000 Mile Run Around the Coast of Great Britain

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    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 entire ten months’ duration. How could someone run that far?…

  • The World’s Lightest Hooped Bivvy?

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    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 stretch and, I suspect, the lightest in the world. Better still, at £145 in…

  • Crossing Ibiza: An EasyJet Expedition

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    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 didn’t cost the earth. So, instead, we looked at where we…

  • Eight Times Up Alpe d’Huez

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    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 cycled up the iconic Tour de France climb Alpe d’Huez eight times. Here’s his account of the trip… [divide]  Eight…

  • Can You Help Build A Bamboo Bike?

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    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 needs a bike… [divide] Can you help build a Bamboo bike for…

  • The Secret To Making Sure Your Adventure Definitely Happens

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    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 might all be easier than you think. But none of that matters…

  • Could You Camp for 100 Nights in a Calender Year?

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    Last week I announced the winners of the 2016 Next Challenge Grant with a wonderful mix of ideas. But whilst I’ve been reading through this year’s applications, some of last year’s winners have been out there, in the hills, having their adventures. One such person is 23-year-old Canadian student, Carmen Braun. Her idea was as…

  • The Winners of the 2016 Next Challenge Grant

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    I am delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Next Challenge Grant. The full list is below. Last year we supported eight fantastic expeditions. This year we have managed to double that and make awards to no less than 17 different adventures. And it’s thanks to you: the 121 people that donated £3 each,…

  • How To Get Sponsorship For Your Expedition

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    This is a detailed article explaining how you actually go about getting sponsorship for an expedition. It covers the following topics: 1. Who’ll pay for your expedition? How likely is it that you’ll get sponsored? What is the magic solution? 2. Applying for grants Advice for completing grant application forms A comprehensive list of expedition…