The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • Expedition Fundraising and Sponsorship Advice #3 – Ethos

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    Below are a few things that I would advise to anyone seeking sponsorship for an expedition. Reading them may not help you get money in the short-term but it will be a step toward going about it in the right way. In the long-term, I believe that you will reap the benefits of your good…

  • Top 10 Culinary Experiences in Oman

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    One of my favourite things about living in Oman was the food and the experiences associated with eating and drinking there. From high class hotel restaurants (OK, only once) to grim-looking roadside cafes where you can get a table full of curry dishes for the price of a packaged sandwich in the UK. Below are…

  • I Don’t Want to be a Professional Adventurer

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    The aim of The Next Challenge is to encourage people to live more adventurously and facilitate them in doing so. One way in which I strive to achieve this is by writing about my own experiences in the hope that they’ll variously excite, motivate and yes, even inspire others to take action. As such, it…

  • 10 Tips For Your First Walking Expedition

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    THIS ARTICLE: Is written by Andy Ward who walked 3,300 miles from London to Asia in 2004 with only two days’ planning. Andy is an adventurer, photographer and professional expedition manager currently working on the Scott2012 Antarctic expedition. Today he shares with us his top tips for anyone planning a long walk… 1.  Don’t over plan…

  • The Return of Running the Tube

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    Last year, Laura and I ran the length of every Tube line in London from start to finish. However, many lines on the London Underground have more than one branch which means that there are several sections which we have yet to run. Now that we’re back from a brief hiatus in the Gulf, and…

  • Mississippi Calling

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    My friend Dave, who recently gave us some advice on skateboarding expeditions, is about to set off on an expedition to stand-up paddle board the length of the Mississippi river. In his own words… Dave Cornthwaite is attempting to raise £1,000,000 for charity by undertaking 25 separate non-motorised journeys of 1000 miles or more. Starting…

  • Top 10 Expedition Highs

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    Lying beneath the stars in the Inylchek Valley, my first night out on my first big expedition Cresting the final hill after 18 months’ preparation and 14 hours of cycling, swimming and running, to see a huge crowd gathered outside Thom’s house to mark our arrival Reassembling my bike outside Stansted airport Arrivals to finish the…

  • Expeditions Are No Better Than Offices

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    It is so easy to set up a website, call yourself an adventurer and then proceed to tell everyone that they are wasting their lives sat in offices when they could be out on expeditions all the time instead. Such a crude point is patronising in the extreme and an over simplified idealism at best.…

  • What are the best expedition/adventure/life blogs?

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    At the end of each month I publish on this website a list of six blog posts that I’ve enjoyed reading in the preceding weeks. You can see last month’s list here (congratulations to Al Humphreys whose great video about sleeping on a hill was the most popular). I’ve just been flicking through my favourite articles…

  • Like Martin Strel – Thames Diary #3

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    Swimming downstream with the flow of a river is about as close as I’ve ever felt to flying. When your arms glide effortlessly through the cold, clear water, and each time you glance to the side, the bank is moving like the view from a train window. I would recommend it to anybody. Our swims…

  • 7 Things I Learned from Lewis Pugh’s Talk Last Week

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    Having recently become a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, I am now able attend their great selection of members’ event. One recent such event was a talk by Lewis Gordon Pugh about his swim at the North Pole. It was an entertaining presentation about a great feat but it also set my mind racing…

  • 10 Tips For Your First Skateboarding Expedition

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    In 2006 Dave Cornthwaite became the first person to skateboard the length of Britain. His 900-mile journey from John O’Groats to Lands End was a warm-up for a much more ambitious skate, a 3618 mile crossing of Australia from Perth to Brisbane, which at the time was the longest journey ever travelled by skateboard. Here…