The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • Human Powered Circumnavigations

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    There is some debate in the adventure world about the technical definition of what constitutes a circumnavigation of the globe. However, keeping the finer details to one side for a moment, here are some adventurers who have completed human powered round-the-world expeditions of varying sorts: [divide] [box type=”note” bg=”#ebebeb” color=”#111″ font=”arial” fontsize=”13″ border=”#a6a6a6″ head=”How To…

  • +1 to Win a Free Book

    +1 to Win a Free Book

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    I have two more copies of my book to give away. After the success of last month’s Twitter draw, I am running another one-click competition. How to Enter All you need to do is “+1” my website on Google Plus. It’s much the same as clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook. There’s a big button below or you…

  • Has anyone been to the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility?

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    Jim McNeil is a polar explorer with 26 years’ experience of Arctic travel. Here he shares some information about the elusive Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, also known as the Arctic Pole. UPDATE: Download a copy of my new ebook How To Get To The North Pole now >>   [divide] Where is the Northern Pole…

  • What Actually Happens When a Boat Gets Caught in a Storm?

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    What actually happens when a boat gets caught in a storm? Well, the threat comes from one or more of the following: High winds and/or large waves catch you side-on and knock you over. You surf down a wave so fast that you bury your bow in the next one and pitch pole (cartwheel). Wind…

  • Charging Equipment on Expeditions

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    If you’re travelling or on an expedition, it’s surprising how quickly your bag can fill up with technological gizmos: camera, mobile phone, video camera, AA and AAA batteries, perhaps a laptop, MP3 player or Kindle too. Worse still is lugging around all of the different chargers and cables, and working out which is which when…

  • An Impressive List of Polar People

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    The list of experienced polar explorers/adventurers/expeditioners who were kind enough to contribute advice or stories to my book really makes me smile to read through. These people feature in the North and South Pole chapters: Pen Hadow – The first Briton to reach the North Pole solo and unassisted from Canada Jim McNeil – Jim is a polar explorer…

  • How To Buy A Camel

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    Jeremy Curl is a record-breaking explorer and photographer who has crossed the Kaisuit and Koroli deserts. In 2008 he traversed 2000km across the Sahara using camels with the Touareg tribes. Here he shares his advice on purchasing camels for a desert expedition. [divide] How To Cross A Desert eBook This article is an edited extract…

  • So, Ben Fogle is Swimming the Atlantic

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    So, Ben Fogle is to swim the Atlantic. An almighty feat, no matter how you look at it. Mr Fogle’s activities often pique my interest (no doubt he is similarly fascinated by my life). This announcement, however, was not at all the kind of thing I would have expected from the Accidental Adventurer. I’ve written…

  • The Difference between Climbing and Scrambling

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    There are lots of different types of climbing – like rock, ice and mixed – and then there are other fuzzier areas like scrambling and walking on snow. Below I have tried to give a very brief explanation of each and how they compare to one another. [divide] [box type=”note” bg=”#ebebeb” color=”#111″ font=”arial” fontsize=”13″ border=”#a6a6a6″…

  • What We Took While Running the Tube

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    A brief overview of the kit we used on our Tube running challenge, as well as the food and drink we took: What we wore Running shoes – mine were old New Balance, Laura’s were new Asics. Socks – we each always used the same pair of running socks, both from Decathlon. They retained less…

  • A Mountain of Experts

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    One of the added joys of writing my book last year was that I had an excuse to contact many legendary names, people whose books I’d read and names I’d heard countless times but never met. Here are the mountaineers that kindly contributed a piece of advice for the How To Climb An Unclimbed Mountain…

  • Subtle Contradictions of Expedition Life

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    Below are Laura’s and my own diary entries, respectively, after our first day of walking in Patagonia: We wake around 7am and pack up the tent with few words. We walk, enjoying the morning peace and our rested legs. Before an hour is up, I feel a flash of irritation – at the incessant flies,…