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Category: Living Adventurously

  • Female Pioneers, Natural Explorers and Ultra-Marathon Food

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    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 similar list each month. Browse the old and best in the Six…

  • River-Boarding in Nepal

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    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 went. Details about tonight are below. Belinda’s running this one as I’m still…

  • What Constitutes Cycling Around the World?

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    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 particular there is less need for firearm – but the essence remains much…

  • Top 10 Things to do in Patagonia

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    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 hooking us up with some contacts down south. And now they’ve kindly written…

  • Health Risks of Cold Water Swimming

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    The most popular article on my website is about the health benefits of swimming in cold water. Outdoor swimming is a joy in itself and can bring about a lot of positive health outcomes too. However, I was contacted last week by Jill Peck Vona who found a downside to the natural high: I was…

  • Skateboarding, Mud Running, Barefoot and Swimming

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    Back after a brief hiatus whilst in Patagonia, here are half a dozen articles that I’ve read in the last month or so and thought that you might enjoy. I do a similar post each month and have created a new archive page for the Six of the Best series. I was pleased to notice that only…

  • Desert Advisors

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    I didn’t write the entire contents of my book all on my own. I had help. Here are the great people who assisted me with the chapter on How To Cross A Desert: Charles Foster Charles Foster is a traveller, author, barrister, and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Much of his…

  • A Year of Songs

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    Every month last year I picked one song I liked that was new to me and added it to a list. At the end of the year, I downloaded all the tracks from Fair Share Music and created a playlist. It’s been a great way to both encourage me to listen to new stuff and…

  • Snorkelling Around Britain

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    It’s London Explorers again next Thursday and I’m pretty excited to hear what Andy Torbet has to say about his adventures with a snorkel and mask in the UK: Last summer Andy Torbet left the mountain of trimix, rebreather, cave and stunt diving kit at home and decided to get back to basics right here in the UK, to…

  • Couch Surfing

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    I suspect that many of you will already be aware of the website CouchSurfing.org or can at least guess at the principle. It’s a network of people all over the world who are willing to offer cups of tea, showers and/or couches on which to crash. It operates entirely without the use of money –…

  • Great Expeditions Don’t Make Great People

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    Just because someone has achieved great expedition feats it does not automatically make them a great person. It is quite common to describe someone who has completed a great expedition as “an amazing person” or similar. I would dispute that assumption. Such achievements should be rightly recognised and hailed for what they are: feats of…

  • Wild Swimming Is Not A Sport

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    ‘My friend does that’, shouted down the lady from the side of her boat as my now wife and I swam past in the river below. ‘It’s that “Wild Swimming” thing, isn’t it?’. I smiled and said Yes but something about what she said irked me. She was friendly enough and she was right about…