Tag: Tim’s Books
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How to Get to the North Pole – Now Available on Kindle
My book, How to Get to the North Pole: and Other Iconic Adventures, is now available as an Amazon Kindle ebook. I don’t have any control over the price but it is currently going for £4.99. They seem to have done a good job of transferring all the maps, diagrams and illustrations into the electronic format. Otherwise,…
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Mike Thornewill on Gloves for Antarctica
Mike Thornewill has completed coastal expeditions to both the South and North Poles. Here he shares some recommendations on glove combinations for use on South Pole expeditions. [divide] [box type=”note” bg=”#ebebeb” color=”#111″ font=”arial” fontsize=”13″ border=”#a6a6a6″ head=”How To Get To The South Pole” headbg=”#21417b” headcolor=”#fff”] This is an edited excerpt from the How To Get To…
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Round-the-World Record Breakers
For the How To Cycle Around The World chapter of my book, I contacted some of the world record breakers for their advice to aspiring cyclists. I also had a few other long-term-cyclist contributors too. The list of who features is below. Round-the-World Cyclists Mark Beaumont Mark’s record attempt was made into a BBC documentary…
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Human Powered Circumnavigations
There is some debate in the adventure world about the technical definition of what constitutes a circumnavigation of the globe. However, keeping the finer details to one side for a moment, here are some adventurers who have completed human powered round-the-world expeditions of varying sorts: [divide] [box type=”note” bg=”#ebebeb” color=”#111″ font=”arial” fontsize=”13″ border=”#a6a6a6″ head=”How To…
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+1 to Win a Free Book
I have two more copies of my book to give away. After the success of last month’s Twitter draw, I am running another one-click competition. How to Enter All you need to do is “+1” my website on Google Plus. It’s much the same as clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook. There’s a big button below or you…
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Has anyone been to the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility?
Jim McNeil is a polar explorer with 26 years’ experience of Arctic travel. Here he shares some information about the elusive Northern Pole of Inaccessibility, also known as the Arctic Pole. UPDATE: Download a copy of my new ebook How To Get To The North Pole now >> [divide] Where is the Northern Pole…
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What Actually Happens When a Boat Gets Caught in a Storm?
What actually happens when a boat gets caught in a storm? Well, the threat comes from one or more of the following: High winds and/or large waves catch you side-on and knock you over. You surf down a wave so fast that you bury your bow in the next one and pitch pole (cartwheel). Wind…
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An Impressive List of Polar People
The list of experienced polar explorers/adventurers/expeditioners who were kind enough to contribute advice or stories to my book really makes me smile to read through. These people feature in the North and South Pole chapters: Pen Hadow – The first Briton to reach the North Pole solo and unassisted from Canada Jim McNeil – Jim is a polar explorer…
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How To Buy A Camel
Jeremy Curl is a record-breaking explorer and photographer who has crossed the Kaisuit and Koroli deserts. In 2008 he traversed 2000km across the Sahara using camels with the Touareg tribes. Here he shares his advice on purchasing camels for a desert expedition. [divide] How To Cross A Desert eBook This article is an edited extract…
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The Difference between Climbing and Scrambling
There are lots of different types of climbing – like rock, ice and mixed – and then there are other fuzzier areas like scrambling and walking on snow. Below I have tried to give a very brief explanation of each and how they compare to one another. [divide] [box type=”note” bg=”#ebebeb” color=”#111″ font=”arial” fontsize=”13″ border=”#a6a6a6″…
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A Mountain of Experts
One of the added joys of writing my book last year was that I had an excuse to contact many legendary names, people whose books I’d read and names I’d heard countless times but never met. Here are the mountaineers that kindly contributed a piece of advice for the How To Climb An Unclimbed Mountain…
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NOW ON SALE – How to Get to the North Pole: and Other Adventures
My new book – How to Get to the North Pole: and Other Iconic Adventures – is now on sale. You can buy it from me, on Amazon or in your local book shop. If you are so desperate to get your hands on a copy that you can’t read any more then just click…