November 2022

  • Adventure Diaries – Bikepacking Through Belgium, Day 1

    Packed with our tents, sleeping bags and enough warm clothes to get us through the worst possible weather, we set our sights on Brussels and planned our route to the Belgian capital. We made our way, via train, ferry and bicycle, out of London, across the channel and through France.

  • Explorer Insights: Lucy Shepherd – First to cross the Kanuku Mountains

    A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to stand in the presence of a true adventurer. I attended a talk in London hosted by the Scientific Exploration Society. The speaker was Lucy Shepherd, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a professional adventurer. At the age of 29, Lucy has done more adventures…

  • Wild Swimming Diaries: An Introduction
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    Wild Swimming Diaries: An Introduction

    The recent uptake in so-called “wild swimming” in the last few years has been phenomenal. Whilst I appreciate that my adventure-filtered newsfeed will be susceptible to a disproportionate amount of noise on the topic unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are likely to have come across the term. As someone who has grown…