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Author: Tim Moss

  • 400 Metres

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    This is a piece I wrote after our route in South America joined a popular trail: Because our route today took in part of a relatively popular walk, we have the luxury of an information sheet containing times, distances, descriptions and, notably, an ascent profile. This showed a steep 400-metre ascent over a short distance.…

  • Skateboarding, Mud Running, Barefoot and Swimming

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    Back after a brief hiatus whilst in Patagonia, here are half a dozen articles that I’ve read in the last month or so and thought that you might enjoy. I do a similar post each month and have created a new archive page for the Six of the Best series. I was pleased to notice that only…

  • Desert Advisors

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    I didn’t write the entire contents of my book all on my own. I had help. Here are the great people who assisted me with the chapter on How To Cross A Desert: Charles Foster Charles Foster is a traveller, author, barrister, and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Much of his…

  • Can you help me gain weight?

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    I have recently started a new diet. Last year, Laura and I began swimming the Thames as part of our Greater London Triathlon. We would drive out west, put our wetsuits on then swim until I got tired or cold. And it was always me shivering or aching, not Laura. I’ve done one big swim…

  • A Year of Songs

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    Every month last year I picked one song I liked that was new to me and added it to a list. At the end of the year, I downloaded all the tracks from Fair Share Music and created a playlist. It’s been a great way to both encourage me to listen to new stuff and…

  • An English Concern with Manners

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    Here are two forgotten diary entries from the start of our trip to South America. Forgotten because we couldn’t find the diary at the time so Laura wrote them on some scraps of paper which got mislaid. This is a description of our New Year’s Eve: Last night was pretty wild. We started with wine…

  • How Much Water Do You Need to Drink in a Desert?

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    It may be surprising to learn that desert travellers often live for many weeks and months at a time, working hard in hot conditions with only a few litres of water each day. Conventional wisdom may dictate drinking many times more (up to ten litres in some instances) for that level of exertion in those…

  • Hitching Along the Carretera Austral

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    These two entries come after a long period of travel in an attempt to reach the west coast of Chile. Laura first: Dusty clothes, sandpaper throat, gritty eyes. Thirsty. Sun-induced headache, hurts to move. Thirsty. Listless torpor punctuated only by brief spells of action as we drag ourselves up to flag down the infrequent vehicles. Heavy…

  • Snorkelling Around Britain

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    It’s London Explorers again next Thursday and I’m pretty excited to hear what Andy Torbet has to say about his adventures with a snorkel and mask in the UK: Last summer Andy Torbet left the mountain of trimix, rebreather, cave and stunt diving kit at home and decided to get back to basics right here in the UK, to…

  • Out of My Depth but Swimming Strong

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    This is something I wrote shortly after reaching Patagonia last month: From Rio De Janeiro to Buenos Aires and Comodoro Rivadavia, things have gotten stranger. Big cities the world over have many similarities as a result of increasing globalisation but the further out you get, the more the differences start to show. From the little…

  • 10 Tips For Your First Running Expedition

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    THIS ARTICLE: Is written by Mark Cooper who has spent 24 hours on a treadmill, set a record for running the length of Hadrian’s Wall and run from Amsterdam to Barcelona. That last trip saw Mark run 1,300 miles in eight weeks. Here he shares some advice for anyone considering a long run… 1. Destination…

  • The Light at the End of the Tunnel

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    Our diary entries one week before departure for South America. This is what Laura wrote (probably at her desk): Christmas is coming and Patagonia preparations are going well. Parcels containing shiny new kit arrive at work almost every day, and every spare moment is spent planning the trip. The contrast between my working life and…