Author: Tim Moss
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I See Shelter Where I Once Saw Trees
Expeditions have changed the way I view the world. I get excited when I see any two vertical objects spaced about three metres apart as I picture myself sat with absurd, childish pride beneath a perfectly pitched tarp. The attributes of highest value when shopping for clothes are not how they look and what other…
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Highlights from Sarah Outen’s round-the-world expedition so far
Sarah Outen’s expedition has been going for about five months now. She’s got another two years ahead of her but, before she gets stuck into the kayaking and rowing, here are a few personal highlights from her trip so far… Videos Chinese border crossing – The battle to cross an international boundary by human…
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Syria, London, Cape Town – Six of the Best, August 2011
Below are some articles from other people’s websites that I have enjoyed reading over the last month and think that you might too. They tend to be from blogs about expeditions, adventures, life and philosophy. I got rid of the voting feature because no one was using it. If you miss it then let me…
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Prove Yourself With An Expedition!
Expeditions are not and should not be a proving ground for egos. Ego can be a useful tool on expeditions and there can be little doubt in the role that it must have played in some of the world’s greatest conquests. There are times when that self-confidence and assuredness will be essential, just as there…
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Microadventure Competition
An extra blog post this week to let you know about a great competition aimed at getting more people outside having adventures. And before you switch off, they’re supposed to start and finish at your front door and needn’t last more than 24 hours so I think that counts most people in. I quote the…
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Thames Swim Video
Here’s a little video that my friend Nick from Your Web Media put together of us swimming down the Thames the other weekend. Originally I hadn’t written anything else here but my website went funny when it tried to include the video below in the summary text so I’ve added this pointless sentence. Cheers! Tim.
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Wild Swimming in Oman
I lived in Muscat for five months with my girlfriend Laura, an even keener outdoor swimmer than me. Oman has many beautiful places to swim wild and we sought them out whenever we could. Below are a list of swimming destinations that we either visited or wished we had. We make no claims to its…
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Sarah Outen Expedition Update
As many of you will know, much of my time is spent organising the logistics for Sarah Outen’s around-the-world expedition. She is approaching the end of a her first leg – cycling across Europe and Asia – so I thought I’d provide a quick summary of what’s happened so far. She departed Tower Bridge, London,…
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First Woman to Sky Dive Everest – London Explorers, September 8th
The next opportunity to meet like-minded adventurers, hear an exciting tale and discuss expedition plans over a drink is Thursday September 8th. Speaking this month we have Holly Budge who is the first woman to freefall in front of Everest. The rest of the details are below. The evening is open to everyone with no…
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A Sunny Summer Sunday
It was a sunny summer Sunday when we loaded our car with a picnic and headed off to the Cotswolds. We paid a princely pound to the parking attendant and took our space in a field with an ice cream van. Friends and families feasted and frolicked on the banks of the Thames and we…
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Books, Boats, Knives, Software – Six of the Best, July 2011
Below are some articles from other people’s websites that I have enjoyed reading over the last month and think that you might too. They tend to be from blogs about expeditions, adventures, life and philosophy. The most popular post last month was Al Humphreys’ Microadventure on the Shetland Isles. Robbed at Knifepoint in Morocco –…