Category: Tim’s Adventures
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Hello Ridgeback
The trauma of losing a close friend last week was quickly overcome with the arrival of his direct replacement. I am very pleased to announce that Laura and I have been sponsored with two new, shiny Ridgeback World Panorama touring bikes. (Pictured above freshly assembled in the living room where, sadly, it had to stay…
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Goodbye Bobby
Last week I said my goodbyes to a dear friend. I’d known Bobby for five years and we’d been on many an adventure together. He was my first touring bike. Due to his being “big boned”, my friends nicknamed (a little cruelly I thought) “The Best of Burden”, eventually shortened to just “The Beast” and…
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Climbing Mountains in Kyrgyzstan
I had never heard of Kyrgyzstan or the Tien Shan mountains when a friend suggested we go climbing there, nor had I worn crampons or ever left Europe before. The thought of setting off for these huge peaks was both exciting and very daunting. But set off I did, with Ben Davitt and Thom Allen,…
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My First Step
My first step on the road to becoming an adventurer was something of a giant leap. I found myself dangling from a rope on a 6,000-metre peak in Kyrgyzstan that had only been climbed thrice. The trip was a disaster. The reference to dangling was not metaphorical. We never summited anything and our poor food…
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Light My Fire Adventurer of the Year 2013
Swedish company Light My Fire make the excellent fire steel ‘strikers’ – great pieces of kit for reliably lighting a stove in the cold and wet – but are probably better known for the ubiquitous plastic sporks you find by the tills in most outdoors shops. They also run an annual ‘Adventurer of the Year’…
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Kukri Adventure Scholarship (we didn’t get it)
As many of you will know from your kind support and our constant spamming, Laura and I entered a video into the Kukri Adventure Scholarship competition before Christmas. It was partly judged on the number of votes cast for each video and we were roughly in the top third for vote count so thank you…
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Photos from Patagonia
Here are some of my favourite photos from our trip to Patagonia earlier in the year. If the slideshow above isn’t working then click here to view full-screen.
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Can you help me with my next expedition?
I am pleased to announce that the next expedition I am planning is a big one: to leave my London life and spend a year cycling right the way around the world. I’ve produced a video about the trip (below) and entered it into a competition to win an expedition grant. Kukri Adventure Scholarship It’s…
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Around the World in 80 Ways video
My good friend Thom and I completed a charity challenge to travel around the world in two months using eighty different methods of transport some years back. We took a video camera with us and shot some sketchy footage. Thom, who has now filmed some far better videos, put together this little teaser from the…
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Interview for CheapTents.com
I was contacted recently by Daniel at CheapTents.com who was conducting a series of interviews with “adventurers”. Below are my answers to his questions. [divide] 1. What inspired you to become an Adventurer? I used to work in the Royal Geographical Society. Every day there would be a seasoned expeditioner coming into the British Schools…
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The Wonderful Wahiba
One of my favourite ever adventures was conducted over a Bank Holiday weekend whilst living in Oman. I was enraptured by the Wahiba Sands (also called Sharqiya) the first time we visited – a beautiful, archetypal sand sea some 60 miles wide and 100 or so high. On the recommendation of a friend, we decided…
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National Geographic Talk – October 18th
On Thursday 18th October, I have been invited to give a talk at the National Geographic Store London. It is free to attend. As I’m busy elsewhere over the coming months, this is the only public speaking event I have planned this year so do come along if you are interested in: Hearing about some of my…