I enjoy physically challenging projects and that is reflected in many of my expeditions and undertakings. The truth, however, is that I rarely train specifically for any given challenge. Instead, I just keep a general level of fitness which mean... Read more
A key motivation for expeditions over the ages, and into the present day, has been scientific research. I never write about it on this website though because I’ve never really got into it. I think it’s a great reason to go travelling... Read more
I honestly think this might be the best video I’ve ever seen… THE MAN WHO LIVED ON HIS BIKE from Guillaume Blanchet on Vimeo. Read more
Walking and climbing on high mountains brings additional risks from the lack of oxygen in the air. Below I have given a very brief description of Altitude Mountain Sickness (AMS) and some basic advice for acclimatisation. Acute Mountain Sickness... Read more
Here’s your monthly half dozen dose of articles that I’ve read and enjoyed. It includes a history of female mountaineering, a debate about the foods people eat whilst running, and a bad review of a good book amongst other things. I make a... Read more
It’s London Explorers tonight and the talk sounds like a real winner. Huw Miles recently made a swim/float descent of the Sun-Kosi river in Nepal. His team used riverboards to navigate grade 5 and 6 rapids, and took video footage as they w... Read more
Here’s a not-too-philosophical piece that Laura wrote and which entertained us both no end in Patagonia: One December, I was leaving Coire Cas car park ready to climb Ben Macdui when I saw a group of Japanese tourists wearing city clothes... Read more
I have been running The Next Challenge for three years now and learned a little along the way about working for myself, working from home and building a website with followers, all without spending money. Here is a little about the set up that I... Read more
Tomorrow evening I will be hopping on a train to Cornwall with my wife and two bicycles. Laura and I will then take a ferry to the Isles of Scilly where we’ll start cycling vaguely north east via Land’s End all the way up to the Shet... Read more
Laura writes about our first few, hard days’ walking along the Carretera Austral: The last two days were tough. While they were happening, we were in a zone, a single-minded, zombie state focused only on walking nearly 100km in two days to... Read more
The first record of someone pedalling around the world is Englishman Thomas Stevens’ 13,000 mile journey by Penny Farthing in 1884 carrying little more than a spare shirt, a change of socks and a pistol. Much has changed since then – in pa... Read more
Shortly before heading out to South America at the end of last year, Laura made contact with Swoop Patagonia, a travel company based in Bristol. We met with Luke Errington, who runs Swoop with Charlotte Brown, and they were incredibly helpful in... Read more
