My book is called How to Get to the North Pole: and Other Iconic Adventures. It has seven chapters, each about a different iconic adventure, and each opening with a wonderful illustration by the talented Mr Jim Shannon and a few statistics such... Read more
THIS ARTICLE: Details how you can complete an expedition to the South Pole. It gives a brief history of Antarctic exploration, explains the four different South Poles and how you find the ‘coast’ of Antarctic. It explores different... Read more
There Are Other Rivers is Alastair Humphreys’ fourth book for adults (he has a fifth book for kids). His first two were an account of cycling around the world and his third, Ten Lessons from the Road, distilled his learnings from that same... Read more
Lyon Equipment are the UK importer for a number of well-known outdoors brands such as Petzl, Ortlieb and Exped. For some years they ran an annual expedition award which provided sponsored equipment for a selection of the best adventures to apply... Read more
Food and expeditions go together like cheese and pickle. Here are some particularly memorable meals from my travels: Smash and tinned mackerel eaten in silence in a torch-lit tent in Betws-y-Coed after a seemingly endless downhill bicycle free-w... Read more
Like most people who get into the outdoors, I have acquired my fair share of kit over the years and, during that time, I’ve found a few places that are good for getting cheap or discounted equipment. Here are a few recommendations: Google... Read more
We took our GoPro video camera with us on the cycle trip over Easter. We’ll be taking it around the world with us too. We won’t be attempting to make a proper documentary about our cycle, just capturing some video to upload to the we... Read more
I ran a campaign throughout 2010 encouraging people to undertake a new “Everyday Adventure” each month. Simple stuff like seeing how far you could get on your lunch break, trying a novel route to work or heading for whatever you coul... Read more
A few photographs from the second half of our recent cycle ride. This batch come from the stretch from Lancashire out to the east coast near Newcastle from where we followed Sustrans National Cycle Route 1 up to Edinburgh. We were testing out a... Read more
Our two week training trip – cycling 1,000km from Plymouth in the south west of England to Edinburgh up in Scotland – finished last weekend and it’s been a delightful reminder of the daily practices on a cycle tour. Here’... Read more
A few photographs from our first week of cycling north from Plymouth to Lancashire are below. More snaps to follow later in the week. If the images above aren’t displaying properly then you can view the slideshow here on Flickr. Read more
Laura and I have just returned from Edinburgh having cycled there from Plymouth. I had some trouble with my website whilst we were away so here is an article that should have gone online last week (you might have seen it on my Light My Fi... Read more
