What are the best expedition/adventure/life blogs?

Jun 2, 2011

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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 from May and realised that I’m just reading the same old blogs and putting up the same old names on my website every month.

There’s a reason for that, of course. I love those sites and what the people on them have to say. But I want to introduce people to new things and not just link to the same places every month.

So, this month I’m asking you:

What blogs do you read?

What adventurers, expeditioners and general philosophers do you find interesting?

Which cycling, climbing, swimming, hiking sites are best?

Put your recommendations in the comments section below.

If you’d like to see some stuff that I enjoy, you can browse some recent posts here, sign up for the RSS Feed of articles that I enjoy, or just pick a few from the list below.

If anyone knows any good methods for sharing blog rolls and finding new ones then I’d love to find out some more.

Here are a few arbitrarily selected sites that I read, in no particular order:

And, of course, my Adventurer’s Blogging Chain colleagues Mark Kalch, Dan Martin, Dave Cornthwaite and Sarah Outen.

Six of the Best

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8 responses to “What are the best expedition/adventure/life blogs?”

Sam

June 2, 2011

Mark Reeve’s Life in the Vertical is irreverant, funny, raw and badly spelled. He’s a climber living in N Wales, an excellent climbing coach and photographer/writer. It would be fair to say that his writing has got him into trouble more than once. If you want to see what living the life of a climbing instructor is like, it’s a pretty good place.

Life in the Vertical

Disclosure, I’m a friend of his and he dragged me up the Old Man of Hoy a few years ago.

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Tom Evans

June 3, 2011

Apart from some of the blogs you mention the only other ones I read are Adventure Journal: http://www.adventure-journal.com/ which can be quite good for cool videos and news, oh and I read my own, someone has to!

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Korpijaakko

June 3, 2011

(Apparently there are some problems with commenting, I tried to comment yesterday but it didn’t go thru…)

Roman Dial has a great packrafting blog with nice videos. Includes also adventure racing and big Alaskan wilderness: http://packrafting.blogspot.com

Hig & Erin have done some incredible journeys and they have a new one coming up so you might want ti check their blog: http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/blog/

And there is of course my own blog which some people seem to read: http://korpijaakko.wordpress.com ;)

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Laura

June 6, 2011

For swimming, the Outdoor Swimming Society is a good port of call, especially their map showing recommended swim spots around the UK (www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com).

David Mitchell’s column for the Observer (available online) is less about adventure but can be great for general philosophising.

For hiking/running, the Long Distance Walkers Association is brilliant – an old school website and very good value events.

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Tim Moss

June 6, 2011

Thanks for the recommendations guys. Added to my RSS Reader. I already read yours Tom.

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Tim Moss

June 13, 2011

Some good ones here too… http://bit.ly/ccbK8k

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extremeadventure

January 9, 2013

I learn more about extreme adventure because of this site…thank you for posting it.

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Dakota Adelphia

February 26, 2013

Well, I am partial, but I really enjoygoing back and reading about our adventures as a family of four biking across America. :) You can check out our blog at http://www.fourtheroad.com. :)
Adventure calls!

~Dakota

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