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Thoughts on Becoming an Adventurer (and how I Make a Living from Travel) Tips and tricks for turning Adventures into a Career. Alastair Humphreys was a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012....

The Dirtbag Diaries I love the Dirtbag Diaries – one of my favourite adventure podcasts. So I was delighted to be interviewed by them. We chatted about the difficulty of turning your dreams into action, and about how small, regular savings can accumulate […]...

Martin Hartley – polar photographer An interview with polar photographer Martin Hartley - his experiences, advice for beginners, and tales of taking the FA Cup to the South Pole....

Jon Muir Australian adventurer Jon Muir is one of my heroes. He’s got a lifetime of superb expeditions under his belt and has made one of my favourite adventure films. I’md love to have asked him a thousand questions, but I was […]...

Want to be an Adventurer? Some Well-meant Cold Water for you… People often email me to ask advice on earning a living from adventures. Sometimes they come from young people contemplating adventure instead of higher education, or perhaps dropping out of uni to focus on expeditions. I’mll address that first. Many […]...

Down the Amazon in a homemade Raft On a cold April morning in 2011, Henrik cycled out of his home in Copenhagen and spent the next 2.5 years cycling across 4 continents. He intended to cycle round the world. However, when he reached the Amazon he changed […]...

Additional Content Additional Content Thank you for taking the time to visit my site – I appreciate it. I really hope that you enjoyed my presentation. I’md love to hear from you if you can suggest ways I could make it better. I send out an email […]...

Winter Microadventure Winners The solstice microadventure challenges (both summer and winter) are becoming popular, regular excuses to get outdoors for a night. If you are going to participate in the Year of Microadventure Challenge then they’ll be important cornerstones of your year. (You can […]...

You’ve Flown in Space. You’ve Climbed Everest. What else is there left to do? An interview with Scott Parazynski about flying in space, climbing Everest, and how to find the time to do great things in your life....

CADGING RIDES ON YACHTS, CHEAP SAILING ADVENTURES, AND LIVING A ‘œLOCATION-INDEPENDENT’ ADVENTUROUS LIFE On sailing adventures and living wherever you choose....

Paralysed but still Climbing Jimmy Goddard was training to be a soldier when he sustained a spinal injury in a climbing accident. His journey from a hospital bed to the summit of Kilimanjaro is an inspiring tale for anyone who feels that they may […]...

Running Round the World in your 50s Runner Rosie Swale-Pope ran 20,000 miles round the world. Impressive, perhaps, but even more so when you know that Rosie is 68 years old......

Mark Kalch – Paddling the longest river on each continent Mark Kalch is an Australian expedition paddler currently living in Argentina. He is working on a long-term project to paddle the length of the longest river on all seven continents. Alastair: Today I am interviewing the adventurer with the biggest muscles […]...

Your Year of Microadventure Would you like to live more adventurously this year? To experience the wild and escape from the rushed, mundane real world. To do something new, fun and different. To spend memorable time with your friends, family or by yourself. To […]...

Travel: It’s like the Hierachy of Drugs Austin Vince is one of life’s superstars. He has motorbiked round the world twice. He runs the wonderful Adventure Travel Film Festival. He is married to the adventurer Lois Pryce. His website is “strictly adults only. No clergy. No children.” […]...

Imran Mughal – Round the World by Bike An interview with Imran Mughal about cycling round the world, his impact on the British Pakistani community, about getting motivated after losing his job, and cycling to the haj....

Karen Darke – climber, adventurer and paralympian Karen Darke is a climber, adventurer and athlete. She broke her spine in a climbing accident....

A Walk Round Wales with a Seaside Donkey Six months, 1000 miles, and one very opinionated donkey. An adventure around Wales....

It would take a much Stronger Man than me to Admit Defeat I struggle to believe the words coming out of my own mouth and live in perpetual self-conflict. 16 years of life on the move, from sofa to spare room to motel, from ditch to wood line, from desert sand to a dug out in the ice and snow. A world that is a shifting kaleidoscope of faces and places, of no fixed relationships, no place to call home. I'mm 45. I will be 50 before there is any chance of stability. I find that this internal pressure starts to change you in uncomfortable ways, numbs feelings, messes with your values and judgment calls. It's hard to define, as is the slow accumulation of years. But it's also interesting, in a macabre sense, that I am finding that frontier, learning what '˜to long' means, what that looks like. ...

The Slowness and the Pain A chat with adventurer, author and film-maker Rob Lilwall about cycling journeys, walking expeditions, and the risks of turning adventure into a 'job'....

Winter Solstice Microadventure Challenge If you’ve followed this blog for a while you may remember me trying to rally people to tackle a summer solstice microadventure. It was a great success, with loads of people heading for the hills. If you fancy a quick reminder of summer, here […]...

Lev Wood I'mve just done the biggest adventure of my life, walked almost 4,000 miles, through six different countries, all the way from the source of the River Nile in Rwanda to the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt. I went through every kind of terrain that Africa has to offer. And for me it was a fascinating way of exploring Africa in the 21st century with its diverse peoples and cultures. ...

Belinda Kirk – Don’t do it to Impress a Girl, do it because it is the Thing You Want To Do Belinda Kirk runs Explorers Connect and the Basecamp Festival. She has many years of expedition experience, and also loads of experience about what other people find tricky about committing to action. I asked her to share some thoughts for Grand […]...

Round the World – Without Flying Travelling round the world without using an aeroplane....

Riaan Manser South African adventurer Riaan Manser has cycled round Africa, paddled round Iceland and Madgascar, and rowed to New York. I chatted with him via Skype for Grand Adventures. Alastair: You’ve just finished rowing the Atlantic with your wife. How did […]...

Paula Constant – Walking from the UK to the Sahara Paula Constant spent 3 years walking from the UK to Africa and across the Sahara desert. She speaks eloquently and honestly about adventure. In other words, she’s worth listening to. I caught up with her, via Skype, at home in Australia. […]...

I Started as many Red-Blooded Adventurers do, thinking I wanted to Prove to the World how Tough I am Dom Gill is an award winning film-maker. His first big journey was a wonderful trip called ‘Take A Seat’ which entailed him cycling from Alaska to Patagonia on a tandem, picking up random passengers along the way… Alastair: Can you […]...

Helen Lloyd – trips by bike, packraft and horse An interview with adventurer Helen Lloyd....

The Mountains are Calling and She can’t Go… Earlier this year, as part of my Grand Adventures series, I asked climber Andy Kirkpatrick some questions. On the back of this, climber/writer/mum Menna Pritchard wrote a post on her blog. I thought that it was a fantastic analysis of […]...

If you’ve got the chance to do something ridiculous, then you really ought to do it. Three friends – musicians – working a boring job in a shop. They spend their days dreaming of things getting better, dreaming of adventure, of their big break in music. There must be thousands of guys like this around the […]...

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