Always Another Adventure

Franco Ferrero and his partner Cath are sailing around the world, slowly.  In five and a half years they've only traveled half-way and have squeezed lots of adventure into the journey. Franco is a former Head of Paddlesport at Plas y Brenin, the National Outdoor Centre in Wales, and author of the books White Water Safety and Rescue , and Sea Kayak Navigation .  He's the man behind Pesda...

The first person to cycle, run and swim Lands End to John o’Groats.  The world’s farthest triathlon, entirely self supported around the coast of Britain.  The fastest trans-Europe bike ride E-W.  Sean Conway took all three records and we cover each one in this one hour podcast, itself something of an ultra. If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting costs by buying me a virtual coffee a...

When you watch spectacular adventures on TV it’s easy to forget about the teams of people who’re filming the adventurers.  Very often those teams have been led by Richard Else.  A judge at Banff Mountain Film Festival, Richard talks about the people he’s worked with; the challenging environments he has worked in; the many and varied difficulties of making a great adventure film, including managing...

She is the fastest woman to cycle around the world.  What’s more Jenny Graham did it entirely unsupported.  She took the Guinness World Record rules and made them harder. Here we talk about the preparation and rides leading up to the big one, including cycling Lands End to John O’Groats unsupported in just four days during the dark, depths of winter. Twitter          Instagram The Adventure Syndic...

For those of us who love swimming in crystal clear water, beside white sand beaches, the Outer Hebrides is a dream destination. Colin Macleod swims there daily (albeit just short dips at the moment during the current restrictions, and the Coastguard is informed). Colin shares stories about swimming and swim camping around the islands off the Outer Hebrides; about being part of the relay team that...

It’s hard to know which of Alastair Humphreys' many adventures to chat about.  He has cycled the world, rowed the Atlantic, run Sahara marathons and much more.  After those epics, he adapted his exploration to Micro Adventures and wrote the manual.  In this podcast Alastair talks about crossing the Empty Quarter Desert, busking his way through Spain, and the tricky business of being a profess...

After winning three paralympic medals, hand-bike racer Karen Darke is tackling a long ride on every continent.  It's part of her Quest 79, an ambitious project bringing together sporting and bikepacking, hoping to recruit others to tackle their own Quest 79 projects. We spoke over Skype with Karen in Majorca where  the Spanish authorities have locked down hard. Karen's website, including...

Jenny Tough is running the world's mountains solo and unsupported.  Everything she needs she carries and yet somehow manages to make films of these great adventures.  In between she’s managing to squeeze in little jaunts like cycling the Silk Road Mountain Race.  JennyTough.com     YouTube Channel     Instagram     Type 2 Fun Ultra Run Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Ch...

A UK Adventure of the Year, Will Copestake shares three great adventures in this podcast.  Will sea kayaked around Scotland then climbed all the mountain over 3000ft, traveling between them by bike.  He became a sea kayak guide in Patagonia Chile, before organising his own expeditions.  He also runs a sea kayak guiding business in Scotland. Most recently, he just made it home to Scotland before Co...

One rider, many different types of adventure.  Lee Craigie has been an elite mountain bike racer who represented Great Britain in the World and European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth games.  She started social enterprise type projects such as Cycle Therapy and more recently The Adventure Syndicate.  She's the Active Nation Commissioner for Scotland  But her first love is as...

An extra podcast because this can't wait.  Specific advice for outdoors people who’re staying active during our partial lock-down comes from a cyclist who is also a medical expert and will soon be working with the Scottish Government. Professor Chris Oliver is known as The Cycling Surgeon.  What’s less well known is he kayaked for Great Britain, tackling gnarly expeditions in wild parts of th...

What’s it like to film in minus 50degress at the south pole?  In a jungle looking for venomous creatures?  In a slot cave barely twelve inches high?  On the summit of Everest?  Keith Partridge knows because he has done it, including the climbing sequences on Touching the Void .  He shares stories from all these adventures in this podcast. Keith is now one of the world's most sought after adve...

One of Scotland's most outstanding athletes with numerous world-first swims to her credit including the Pentland Firth, from Orkney to Mainland Scotland, and The Minch from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides back to the Mainland. Colleen talks in detail about those swims, growing up in a family where swimming the English Channel was a normal, almost required, thing to do.  Plus she gives...

Colin and his paddling partner Davis were the first people to circumnavigate Great Britain in an open canoe.  Quite a trip for someone who spent most of his life as a climber, graduating to the big walls of Yosemite valley. Colin has just written a very good book about their journey, Only Fools and White Horses available through his website Soure-2-Sea.co.uk Please buy me a virtual coffee and supp...

Donnie has won the British trail running championships, a Skyrunning world series race, represented Great Britain, has made speed ascents of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and now coaches runners. Here he share stories of those adventures and in particular his record breaking winter Ramsay Round of 24 Munros in 24 hours in hash, dark, winter conditions.  He’ll also share some ideas of staying fit du...

As if cycling around the world wasn’t hard enough, Markus Stitz did it on a single speed bike.  Twenty one thousand miles, and deliberately avoided any notion that he’d achieve a Guinness world record. His website are bikepackingscotland.com and markusstitz.com He organises Dirt Dash events He's on Twitter and Instagram Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Check out our YouT...