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  • A Journey to the End of my Country

    The irony of reading the epic Odyssey on a microadventure was not lost on me. But if there is one thing I have learned during this Year of Microadventures it is this...

  • River Swim

    Look at the normal with fresh eyes. Seek the extra-ordinary in the ordinary. Step away from the pleasant, unsurprising riverside picnic. Step away and slide down into the water. See the world from a different perspective. Be surprised. Swim a river.

  • Four Seasons of Microadventure

    Once a season this year I am spending a night out in the same woods.

  • A Circular Journey

    The best microadventures include all the ingredients of great epics (voyaging into the unknown, hardship and surprises).

  • A Bicycle Challenge

    This is the Fred Whitton Challenge. It’™s not on Twitter and it’™s not branded as, Xtreme, Tough, Epic, Ultimate or Awesome, though it probably is some of those things.

  • A Journey On The Tube

    I’ve spent a lot of time, too much time, squashed in the London Underground and wishing I was doing something like this instead.

  • A 5-to-9 Microadventure

    Last week I had the perfect opportunity to practice what I preach: the idea of brief adventurous escapes. I had just spoken at an IT conference in Scotland and the boss of the company had taken the stage after my talk to do her very best to drain away all the fun, enthusiasm and positivity I had been paid to inject.

  • Microadventures

    A microadventure is an adventure that is short, simple, local, cheap – yet still fun, exciting, challenging, refreshing and rewarding.

  • Arctic Photography

    I spent six weeks in the Canadian Arctic on an Ice Base on the frozen Arctic Ocean at 78 degrees north (at the spot often referred to in polar races as ‘The North Pole’, though in fact it was the 1996 location of the magnetic North Pole).

  • On Foot through India

    The river Kaveri is one of the 5 great holy rivers of India, revered by pilgrims for centuries. From its source amongst the coffee and cardamon plantations in the cool hills of the Western Ghats, the river flows 500 miles across southern India towards the hot plains of Tamil Nadu and the Bay of Bengal.

  • Canoeing the Yukon

    A 16-foot canoe loaded with food, 500 miles of wilderness ahead of us, camping on islands under the stars: paddling down the Yukon River remains one of my favourite adventures.