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 wit... Read more
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 v... Read more
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 ac... Read more
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 adver... Read more
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 Ne... Read more
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, c... Read more
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... Read more
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 ente... Read more
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... Read more
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 th... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
