Category: Advice Articles
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How To: Use Supermarket Food for Sports Nutrition
SYNOPSIS: This article details simple, cheap and natural alternatives to isotonic sports drinks, energy bars and energy gels. The purpose and weaknesses of each engineered product are analysed and substitutes are offered with an explanation of why they are as good or better. Enter any race these days and you’ll invariably be handed a sports…
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10 Tips For Your First Polar Expedition
This article is written by Helen Turton who has skied across Greenland and been to both Poles on more than one occasion. We’ve worked together on quite a few trips, most recently the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, and she has been a constant source of information for me on all things polar. She thus seemed…
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10 tips for anyone planning an expedition – Guest Blog: Lynn Morris
I got an email out of the blue the other day from an expedition I’d heard about some time ago: Atlantic Rising. They were awarded the Land Rover ‘Go Beyond’ Bursary for their very cool idea to travel around the Atlantic Ocean overland along the one metre contour line. This is predicted to be the…
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9 Tips for the Aspiring Long-Distance Rickshaw Rider
When I started planning my trip a year or so back, I struggled to find any information about cycling rickshaws long distance. Almost as if it wasn’t a common thing to do. So, here are some tips if you fancy having a go (which I would highly recommend): –1. Use the Rickshaw Forum –2. Don’t…
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Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary (and 22 other tips for writing fiction)
I read a great feature in the Guardian recently with hundreds of tips from authors for aspirant writers. You can read the full list here but I’ve quoted a few of my favourites below: Jonathan FranzenInteresting verbs are seldom very interesting. Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sinKeep your exclamation points under control. You…
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7 Reasons to go to the Altai
1 – You’ve never heard of it Or if you have, you’ll still have plenty of friends who don’t know where it is and will make the appropriate noises when you show them on a map. The Altai Mountains span four countries and the Russian chunk of them lies within the Altai Republic, a state…
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The Dishwasher Dash (and 9 other ways I squeeze exercise into my working day)
One of the frustrating things about being desk-bound for the majority of my working days is the lethargy it threatens to instill. As such, I’ve been dabbling with a number of ways to squeeze in little tidbits of exercise to my daily routine. Here’s a few of them: Leaving my phone in the next room…
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6 things you could learn from mad feats
1. You can make a living doing what you love Ranulph Fiennes is probably the most famous British explorer/adventurer out there but even he had to start somewhere. One of the turning points for me entering the adventure world was reading his autobiography and going through his realisation that he could turn his hobbies (mad…
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5 Health Benefits of Cold Water Swimming
If you had to assign one attribute to the kind of people who jump into ice-encrusted lakes for fun, it would probably be: weird. But, if pushed for a second, I bet it would be: healthy. [divide] [divide] Overweight, lethargic, bad skin, thin hair. These are not adjectives often associated with those crazy freezing water…
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5 tips on fundraising – RGS Explore Conference Special
This afternoon I gave at talk about fundraising at the RGS Explore Conference. If you were there then this post will give you some more information, some of the links and resources I mentioned and a copy of the slides. If you weren’t, well, you get all of the above without having to endure my…