Complete listings of all the best travel insurance companies for expeditions and adventure. Including: cycle touring, mountaineering, climbing, Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland icecap. Update... Read more
Ever fancied having your name in lights? Well, now you can. Make a donation to our charity – JDRF – in the month of May and we will produce a personalised photograph of yo... Read more
We are often asked on this trip how much it costs to cycle around the world. Are we really rich? Is a company paying for us? How can we afford to leave our jobs and set off on what is essent... Read more
Your expedition is not contingent upon someone else to get it off the ground. You save all that time creating sponsorship documents, researching contact details and making all those phone ca... Read more
Whilst Laura researches trivial matters such as visas and border crossings in preparation for our bike trip this summer, I have been primarily concerned with gloves. Whether the blame lies w... Read more
Myself and my bottom are very glad to announce that we will be cycling to Australia on the finest leather saddles from Brooks England. Brooks have kindly sent us two of their classic B17 sad... Read more
Lyon Equipment are the UK importer for a number of well-known outdoors brands such as Petzl, Ortlieb and Exped. For some years they ran an annual expedition award which provided sponsored eq... Read more
Like most people who get into the outdoors, I have acquired my fair share of kit over the years and, during that time, I’ve found a few places that are good for getting cheap or discou... Read more
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 bett... Read more
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... Read more
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 abo... Read more
Last week I posted a Twitter update with a link to an article with the tag line: “Dressing up an expedition as a charitable act is just plain wrong“. It opens with this: The next... Read more
