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Seize the Opportunities for Adventure If I offered you £1,000,000 to head to, say, Dartmoor – or any wild place you fancy – and spend tomorrow night wild camping high on the Tors, I’mm sure you’d leap at the opportunity. Not just a fat pile […]...

The Ultimate Triathlon I generally do not like to boast, and do my best to make adventure and endeavour available to everyone. However, there are times when you simply have to acknowledge that there are only a few of us who are elite […]...

Great Adventures for Kids to Try at Home Britain is an adventurous country. Even if we are more armchair explorer than Bear Grylls-style hanging from a cliff with the rope between our teeth, most of us enjoy stories of travel and adventure. We have a strong history here, […]...

7-Step Solution to a Summer Microadventure 1. Get out of town (When the boy in the bubble needs to escape) 2. Refresh (Although I’mm sure some ad recently made me want to drink cider…) 3. Connect (by Disconnecting) (Dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand […]...

Some Thoughts on Planning a Big Adventure The simple fact that you are reading this blog means you love the idea of travel and adventure. But what is adventure? Is it climbing mountains, crossing deserts, skiing through the Arctic? Yes, it is. But adventure is also much […]...

Shouting from my Shed: Volume 17 It astonishes me how much work goes into a mere 90 seconds of film (which you’ll probably mostly ignore as you sip your skinny macchiato and wonder how early you can skive off work to go for an evening swim […]...

How to Improve your Email Newsletter I’mve been half-heartedly sending email newsletters for 17 years. But only recently have I started to make a real effort to make them good (do you subscribe? If not, you probably should). In order to learn what my audience was […]...

Bavarian Microadventure – with a difference I was worried, eight years ago, when I first began sleeping on local hills and swimming in rivers to get my prescribed dose of adventure. I had just, barely, hardly, got to a point where I felt confident that enough […]...

Shouting from my Shed: Volume 9 Goedemiddag, as we say here in the Netherlands. I’mm very pleased to have been invited to become a patron of the Outdoor Swimming Society. They seek to keep outdoor swimming wild and free, share its joy and adventure, and believe […]...

The Proust Questionnaire I enjoy writing blog posts where questions force me to think hard and be honest (like this interview and these 20 questions worth answering honestly.) The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlour game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel […]...

The Beautiful Struggle I have been working as a partner of HaglÃ¶fs for three years now. They are good people, they make excellent gear, and they care about the sustainability of what they do. Last autumn I made a film in the Lofoten […]...

A Chat in the Pub I was asked to speak at the Irish Adventure Film Festival in beautiful County Mayo. As I had never visited the west coast of Ireland, it was a perfect opportunity to tag on a little exploration, one or two pints […]...

Social Media Advice A while ago I gave a talk about social media and how to use it well. I intended to write up my notes afterwards into an amazing, comprehensive blog post. But I still have not got round to it, and now […]...

Outdoor Wit and Wisdom Following on from this enjoyable post about outdoor sayings and tips, I thought I’md pinch the idea as a means for a giveaway of Brendan’s new book. I asked people on social media for their favourite pithy saying. You can […]...

Just Trundling through my Brief allotted Span of Life “What I find scary is just to do the same routine things over and over again. To just trundle through my brief allotted span of life.” I enjoyed making this short film in Pembrokeshire over a couple of days back […]...

How To Plan A Walking Journey A guest blog from Leon McCarron who has walked many thousands of miles on many expeditions. Leon’s new book, The Land Beyond, tells the story of walking 1000 miles from Jerusalem to Mount Sinai, through the heart of the Middle East. […]...

Lofoten. One of the greatest places of my life. Lofoten. One of the greatest places of my life. I had hoped so beforehand, in the 20 years I dreamed and schemed and tried to work out a way to get myself up here. Then as the plane descended to […]...

Microadventures with Land Rover I sat down with Land Rover to talk inspirations, experiences and all things microadventure. Watch the little intro film we made, then read the interview below. I’mm pretty excited that my little idea about squeezing adventure into everyday life has […]...

Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey from City to Sea An imaginary journey swimming from city to sea, inspired by Roger Deakin’s wonderful wild swimming book, Waterlog. If you haven’t read it, I would urge you to buy a copy. The text to the film is all quoted from Waterlog. […]...

How to Light a Fire without Matches or a Lighter The easiest method I have seen. Even I managed it first time! I love the idea of learning this essential bushcraft and survival skill. It’s a great party trick too! This technique is so easy that you can do it first […]...

The 2017 Summer Solstice Microadventure Challenge – the Winners The 2017 Summer Solstice Microadventure Challenge led to a wonderful wave of people heading out and enjoying microadventures. If you joined in, I hope that you had a great time. Even better would be if some of these pictures inspire […]...

Why I Run Every month I visit the Lake District to spend a day running in the hills. It’s good for the body, good for the head, good for the soul. I film the run and chat to myself about whatever feels important […]...

Microadventures with Kids – everything you need to know! Many people love the idea of taking their children on microadventures. But there are many valid reasons why it can be hard to do. There are even more imagined barriers that get in the way. So here, in their own […]...

Fire and Foraging Microadventure Inspired by my wild baking microadventure, I decided it was high time I learned to light a fire properly, without matches or a lighter. This led me back to Sussex to my old friend Nick, to chat with him about […]...

The 2017 Summer Solstice Microadventure: Choose Your Own Challenge EDIT – winners announced here. Welcome to the 6th year of the Summer Solstice Microadventure Challenge! The aim, as always, is simple: to encourage people around the world to stop procrastinating and try a microadventure. (Not sure what a microadventure is? […]...

Viewranger: a Night on a Hill with Friends A night on a hill with friends. Fabulous. A place I have never been before. Uplifting. The first swifts of the summer. Ditto. More girls than boys. Rare (for me). Rotisserie chicken. Better than pasta. An insane sunset. Glorious. A […]...

Family Life Draining You? Take Your Kids Wild Camping A guest post from Diane Vukovic about her experiences camping with her young daughter. Growing up, my dad would take my sister and me backpacking in the Adirondack Mountains of NY State. We slept in lean-tos, carried our own packs, […]...

We Hurt The Things We Love – a short film about Running Every month I visit the Lake District to spend a day running in the hills. It’s good for the body, good for the head, good for the soul. I film the run and chat to myself about whatever feels important […]...

Adventure for Good? This is one of those blog posts that might come across as hypocritical, preaching or judgemental. Apologies. But I’mm also glad, as they often spark the most interesting conversations. Here I go. I’ve been mulling over the relationship between Adventure […]...

Microadventures with Kids – your stories, please! I want to compile an inspiring and useful guide for people who would love to take their kids on microadventures but feel that it is too difficult. I am going to do this by sharing other people’s stories and advice. […]...

Alastair Humphreys

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