The Next Challenge

Author: Tim Moss

  • Running the Three Peaks

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    Next Challenge Grant winner Tina Page has just run the British Three Peaks: Snowden, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis. She didn’t just run up them, she ran between them too: 500 miles in total. And, to cap it all off, she only started running three years ago. That fact somehow makes her feat seem both…

  • Is it Dangerous to Encourage People to Have Adventures?

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    An article appeared in The Times on Saturday that mentioned me and The Next Challenge Grant. You can read it here. At first, I was excited. It’s not every day that you get mentioned in a national paper and, even better, it plugged my grant. Then I got a bit annoyed. I thought the article…

  • What is the Thinnest Camping Mat?

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    What is the thinnest camping mat you can get? This is exactly the kind of niche, nerdy question that I love so I was delighted to receive just such a query through my website this week. Quick answer: Get an 8mm-thick Multimat Superlite 8 or pay to import a 3mm-thick Gossamer Gear Thinlight 1/8″. What…

  • Cycling a Beach Cruiser Around Costa Rica

    Cycling a Beach Cruiser Around Costa Rica

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    On first reading, nothing about ‘cycling a beach cruiser around Costa Rica’ sounds especially tough. It sounds like a fun trip, somewhere warm. The reality, however, is that Next Challenge Grant winner Dylan Haskin had quite an adventure. A month spent cycling 900 miles on a bike with no gears. Three days straight cycling uphill…

  • Review of Camping Mats

    Review of Camping Mats

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    This article gives a detailed review of all the best sleeping pads and air mattresses. It is based on 17 years’ experience and has been used by tens of thousands of people. There is a detailed buyer’s guide, a series of comparison tables and further reading for the enthusiastic. However, if you’re in a hurry,…

  • A thousand miles barefoot across South Africa

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    2016 Next Challenge Grant winner Thommo Hart recently walked and ran one thousand miles across South Africa, with his friend Simphiwe Ngcobo. They dragged carts filled with their supplies across tar so hot you could fry an egg on it (which they did). They marched through sand and over rocks with their feet rubbed raw,…

  • Video of Walking Across Lake Baikal

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    Earlier this year, Laura and I undertook an expedition to walk across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal in Siberia. It was a beautiful place. As well as taking lots of photos, we did some filming. Given that it took us four months just to edit the photos, however, we weren’t sure that we would…

  • Crossing Lake Baikal in Winter

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    In March, Laura and I travelled to Lake Baikal in Siberia to walk across its frozen surface. This blog post shares our photos. Click here to watch the video.   We started out from Olkhon Island, an area famous for Shamanism…   Before we left home, our main fear was that the ice on the…

  • My Next Book Will Be Published On…

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    Starting in the summer of 2013, Laura and I spent 16 months cycling around the world. We travelled 13,000 miles through 27 countries and 4 continents, met dozens of fascinating characters and saw all manner of things. It felt like we had enough experiences in that year and a half to fill a life time.…

  • Are You Capable of More Than You Realise?

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    Early on Saturday morning, several groups of women (and a few men) gathered with their bikes at a range of locations across the UK. Their intention was to cycle 100 miles. Most of them had never cycled that far before. Many of them were not sure that they could. By the end of the day,…

  • Walking 400 miles along Japan’s tsunami-affected coastline

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    Two weeks ago, we waved off the first two winners of the 2017 Next Challenge Grant: Libby and Lisa set off run and cycle up every Munro in Scotland. They’ve already ticked off 31 mountains and you can follow the rest of their progress on Twitter. This week another adventure begins: Robin Lewis, who won…

  • Running and cycling all the Munros

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    Two weeks ago I announced the winners of the 2017 Next Challenge Grant. There were sixteen winners spanning a whole range of adventures but the biggest award went to two fell running buddies: Lisa and Libby. The pair are planning to run up and cycle between every Munro in Scotland (a Munro is a mountain…