Author: Tim Moss
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Mountains and Mole Hills
My legs are pistons, firing repeatedly in a hypnotic cadence, a relentless machine hell bent on speed. Churning the big cog over and over, I’m flying through London at a dangerous rate of knots. The low sunlight reflects off a tower block in the distance, each of its windows flashing bursts of light like the…
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Things to do before Christmas
As we enter the final quarter of the year, have you given any thought to what you want to achieve before its end? Here’s my list: Get an article published Write up my ‘Cycling Home from Norway‘ trip Upload all of my expedition photos to Flickr Produce my first video (from clips of the BSES…
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Do you find Newton Faulkner attractive?
I knew nothing about about Newton Faulkner other than that he was a singer/songwriter. I loaded up his album, Hand Built By Robots, on Spotify and thought it was great so, last night, I asked my friends if they’d heard of him. “Have you seen what he looks like?”, one of them asked me in…
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Life, true life
“It was during that performance of Rigoletto that opera imprinted itself on Katsumi Hosokawa, a message written on the pink undersides of his eyelids that he read to himself while he slept. Many years later, when everything was business, when he worked harder than anyone in a country whose values are structured on hard work,…
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Fingers crossed for rain
Earlier in the summer, three students from my old university, UCL, set off to Vancouver Island for a spot of sea kayaking. As a member of the UCL Expedition & Travel Committee, I gave them a tiny steer in the right direction and, in return, they have kindly sent us this update from the field:…
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End of an adventure?
This year, I have been incredibly lucky to have been involved with so many adventures – arctic training in Svalbard, exploration in Russia, mountaineering in Norway, cycling through Scandinavia and, most recently, supporting a rather unique triathlon – but now, in mid-September, I have no more big adventures planned this year. Or do I? I…
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Coast to Coast Triathlon
The live updates above come from the front seat of a 4×4 I’m driving in support of Rob Cousins on his immense Coast-to-Coast triathlon. Over the coming days we will be driving to the north so that Rob can run, swim and bike his way across the country in a quite unique little event. You…
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Rob’s first triathlon
This morning I am packing my bags once again for another little adventure. Ever since I’ve known Rob he has been preparing for this event: his first triathlon. Here’s what’s going to happen in his own words: “The time has come! Dawn on Monday morning, my great adventure starts, and I have a mixture of…
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50 days and 50 nights
Well, that was certainly the longest expedition I’ve ever been on. Yesterday evening I arrived home after 4 weeks in the Norwegian mountains, 3 weeks pedalling through Scandinavia and a final day’s ride from Stansted airport. Couple that with the fact that it was my birthday and you’ll get an idea of just how wide…
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The Land of the Midnight Sun
Over the four weeks that I’ve spent on expedition with BSES in Norway, the activities have been split roughly 50/50 between mountaineering and kayaking. I have been land based throughout but my fellow leader and new friend Lucy Bound spent some time on the water and has kindly allowed me to upload a sneak preview…
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The Struggle
It’s hard to tell in the middle of the night but when I woke up it was clear that something was wrong. My stomach was cramped and sitting up was such an effort that I had to lie back down immediately. It had been raining all night and the mosquitoes were lined up outside my…