The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • Bikepacking Anadalusia

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    Megan Cumberlidge’s photos have made me very jealous. She won a Next Challenge Grant and recently took her mountain bike to Andalusia, Spain. Her grant was only small – £50 – because the main thing she asked for in her application was kit. Specifically, she needed bikepacking bags. I have two full sets of bikepacking…

  • Walking 600km Along Japan’s Tsunami-Affected Coastline

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    In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the east coast of Japan and devastated much of its coastline. A huge effort has been made to repair and rebuild in the years since the disaster and part of that effort included the creation of a brand new walking route. The Michinoku Coastal Trail runs the along…

  • Walking the Western Ghats with 4-Year-Old Twins

    Walking the Western Ghats with 4-Year-Old Twins

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    By far our youngest grant winners to date, Dyuthi and Druthi (4), have recently returned from a short walk in the Western Ghats, India. They went with their dad, Guru, and cousin, Adithi (8). [one_sixth]–[/one_sixth][two_third][box] The Next Challenge Grant Guru’s family hike was part funded by a Next Challenge Grant, an annual bursary for aspiring…

  • The T-Test: Finding the Warmest Camping Mat

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    This article explains how to find the warmest camping mat with the lowest weight. Finding the warmest sleeping pad is easy: it’s probably the biggest and thickest one. You can check the camping mat’s warmth by looking for the one with the highest ‘R-value’, which measures how well insulated a mat is. The warmest camping…

  • Scoot the Loop: 150-miles around London on a kick-scooter

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    Last year, Next Challenge Grant winner Bex Band kicked a scooter 150 miles around the ‘London LOOP’. In her grant application, written in July 2016, she wrote: Myself and my husband have never done anything like this before. We are very ordinary – I am a secondary school teacher and my husband is an account…

  • Off to Morocco

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    Laura and I are off to Morocco. It is another of our ‘EasyJet¹ expeditions’: short adventures that fit around annual leave, in places you can get to with a cheap flight. ¹(Other budget airlines are available). Last year, we walked across Ibiza: flying with hand luggage only and walking home from the airport afterwards. Wonderfully…

  • 2018 Next Challenge Grant Open for Applications (and Donations)

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    The 2018 Next Challenge Grant is open for applications and donations. Click here to apply Click here to donate The story so far The Next Challenge Grant started in 2015 when I decided to give away all of the money that my website made from adverts. That £200 was matched by 100 public donations of…

  • Walking the Tendrivska Spit

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    While I read through all of the wonderful applications we’ve received for this year’s Next Challenge Grant, previous years’ winners are out there doing their things. Today, we have a report from an expedition in Ukraine. The Next Challenge Grant is open to people of all nationalities, wherever they live in the world. Most winners…

  • Carts for Desert Expeditions

    Carts for Desert Expeditions

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    This is a brief guide to desert carts: wheeled trailers that you can fill with supplies and drag across a desert. Cars, camels and carts I like to think that there are three options for hauling large volumes of supplies across a deserts: cars, camels and carts. Vehicles are used frequently in deserts and camels,…

  • Help Fund Sarah Outen’s Epic Adventure Documentary

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    Sarah Outen spent 4.5 years travelling around the world by human power: cycling the continents and rowing the oceans. It was one of the most remarkable expeditions of recent times. She captured the entire journey on camera, filming herself alone in the Pacific in a tiny boat and with getting extra footage from film-maker Justine…

  • The Cycle Touring Festival returns for 2018

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    Tickets are now on sale for the Cycle Touring Festival 2018.  Buy tickets here. The Cycle Touring Festival is an annual event, celebrating all things cycling and touring. It is organised by my wife, Laura (with help from me) and is about to enter its fourth year. It is the place to come for anyone planning,…

  • Running the Channel Islands

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    The Channel Islands might not be the first destination that springs to mind when planning an expedition but it is eactly where Next Challenge Grant winner, Amanda McDonnell, chose for her adventure earlier this year. She ran 110 miles across the five main islands over the course of a week. Her story is below. In…