The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • The Sight of Solitude – Part II

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    And so it was with the familiar blend of apprehension and coursing adrenalin that I followed the trailing rope across the glacier and towards our latest foe: the 5,700-metre high Cerro Sofia whose summit lay to the left hand side of a snowy col whose imposing wall rose in front of us. The sun, risen…

  • Suffering free and simply – Six of the Best, June 2010

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    Here are some blog entries from other people’s websites that I have enjoyed or got something from over the last two months and think that you might too. Have a look and cast your votes. Last month‘s winner, I am very pleased to say, was Revolution Cycle’s Someday, all this will be a memory. Probably…

  • The Sight of Solitude – Part I

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    I awake with a searing pain in my eyes. Without a background in chemistry or any medical knowledge whatsoever, I imagine that this is what it’s like to bathe ones eyeballs in a dilute solution of something rather acidic. Sun cream? A few weeks of being outdoors in the elements had left my skin a…

  • 100 pounds, 36 Tweets

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    Being a budget expedition, I kept track of my £100 hitch-hiking adventure in February by Tweeting with the free text messages I get on my mobile phone. This is the story in bite size chunks: I am setting off with the bag on my back and £100 in my pocket – http://twitpic.com/137pf4 Result. Bus driver…

  • Swiss Alpine Marathon

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    My friend Rob has taught me a lot about running and life in general over the last few years. It’s been a privilege to know him but I am not the only person that benefits from his experience. His latest project has seen him work with some long-distance runners from Nepal and he is about…

  • The Vehicle of Poets

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    The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley   The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. Iris Murdoch   When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the…

  • Tubes in Tweets – Part II

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    Twitter really is the best way to generate live updates as we run the Tube. Here are some updates from the last few runs: Northern Line – February 28th, 29 miles, 5.5 hours The first twinges of cramp creep into each calf moments before the final whistl. Not what I need before running the Northern…

  • Bid for my rickshaw!

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    The rickshaw I used to cycle 1000 miles from the Highlands back to London is being auctioned for charity this week. It may be pending Guinness World Record status but it is, in my books, already the stuff of legend having been pushed so hard, so far and so fast. It’s fully functioning and ready…

  • Three British Olympic Athletes skiing to the South Pole

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    I ran an advert a couple of months ago looking for a British Olympian to join an expedition to the South Pole that I’m organising to coincide with the London 2012 Games. Well, I actually got quite a bit of interest from an exciting range of athletes and have finally picked one. Specifically, Derek Redmond.…

  • A Different Epiphany

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    These things happen like an avalanche. A sense of foreboding. The tiniest of movements. And before you know it, the world is in freefall. I set off this morning on a low. Emails were typed without feeling. Conversations were held without engagement. I went out on my bike with a familiar urgency to just BE…

  • Three world-beating cyclists

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    Having worked for a couple of years in the Royal Geographical Society, steeped as it is with the rich heritage of great British exploration and frequented still by the modern world’s most exciting expeditioners; and spending so much of time reading and writing about adventurous people and their achievements, it’s easy to become blase about…

  • Do it for yourself (but not on your own) – Guest Blog: Julie Abrams-Humphries

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    There is nothing I enjoy more than “ordinary people” do extraordinary things and thus you can imagine my joy when I came across She Who Dares. They’re a group of women of all ages and abilities who meet up midweek and do cool, adventurous stuff. I contacted Julie, their Chair, and she kindly wrote this…