Books
More Blog Topics
Recently Popular
Updates By Email
Get just one email per month with the best bits from the blog and any latest news.
All Time Popular
Recent Comments
- Kit Review: hub dynamo and battery pack (10)
- Aushiker: Another PedalPower+ owner here, but I have the PedalPower+ Super-i-Cable married to a SON 28 dynamo. I have...
- AtlanticRow AlastairHumphreys.com – 4th phonecast (3)
- Jo Beslee: From a cloudy Cape Town just to let you know at last John and I have time to follow your passage. You are...
- Rob Thomson: Just read about the rescue too, and had to do a bit of digging to see if it was the boat you are...
- david burns: Hi Al, Just heard of a boat being rescued tonight. Puts in perspective just how tough it must be out...
- AtlanticRow AlastairHumphreys.com – 3rd phonecast (1)
- Gilly tucks: In awe of what you are doing.Cant wait to hear all about this latest adventure when completed.Just keep...
- Kit Review: hub dynamo and battery pack (10)
Buy me a Coffee?
Thank you to the many people who have kindly "bought me a coffee" for just £2.50 as encouragement to keep this blog going. "Yes, I too would like to donate a couple of pounds to this site..!"Coming soon
-
Do you Want to Make a Living from Travel?
22.03.2012
-
What to Pack for a Microadventure
07.05.2012
-
EasyJet Adventure
14.05.2012
-
The Most Extreme Places I have Visited
18.05.2012
-
Terrible Places, Top Tips, Great Roads to Ride. And a Challenge
24.05.2012
-
Do you Want to Make a Living from Travel?
Affiliated links
Cheap Flights to Sharm el Sheikh
Interested in seeing your company's link here? Find out more about opportunities here.
Category Archives: Arctic
The 10 Greatest Polar Expedition Books
What do you think of my choices?
A Collection of Arctic Videos
DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
Final Thoughts from the Arctic
Our strange world has become normal to me.
Arctic Isolation
The frozen Arctic Ocean is one of the strangest places I have ever been.
Ten Things I Didn’t See in the Arctic
Continuing my trip down Arctic memory lane, I thought this list might be quite interesting to help you realise just how empty and unreal the Arctic feels. 10 things I haven’t seen in ages Trees, grass or flowers Birds or insects A stone, dust or a road Money A child A house or a shop [...]
Read more
Read more
Musings from the High Arctic
Putting a group of people who have never met before, into a camp in the outreaches of the Arctic, with no respite or possibility of going home, is the stuff of Reality Television.
Arsing around at High Latitudes
Why I wish I was back in the Arctic this year: DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
Ben Saunders – Living on Ice
Fingers crossed, Ben starts tomorrow… Great video here for anyone wanting an inkling of the preparation required for polar journeys. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
North Pole Expedition
Follow Ben Saunders' as he heads back to the Arctic.
Under the Pole
I met these guys last year when I was up in the Arctic. Their project was mad, hardcore and very ambitious. Do have a quick look at their wonderful trailer: It’s certainly more beautiful than my own very-brief swim beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean: DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY [...]
Read more
Read more
Tips for Winter Cycling
Too cold to ride to work? Too much snow? Stop being a wimp!
Earning the Applause – a comment on the sport of pole-seeking.
“Clearly, what was once called ‘exploration’ in the geographical sense no longer exists. No longer are there pioneers like Peary, Nansen, Amundsen, Shackleton and Scott whose vocation it was to venture (for several years at a time) into territory which no human being had set eyes on before. Their nearest equivalent these days is the [...]
Read more
Read more
Arctic Pilots
Integral to all Arctic expeditions are the brave, skilled, humble pilots who drop off and collect most teams from the sea ice. Here is a very short interview I snatched with Troy while he was loading up the plane. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also [...]
Read more
Read more
Swimming in the Arctic
I love wild swimming, especially in remote and beautiful places. So the chance to swim under the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was too good to turn down. Here’s a short video I made about the experience. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available [...]
Read more
Read more
How to build an igloo
A short video I made about building an igloo in the Arctic.
Arctic Expedition
I have recently returned from a six week trip to the Canadian Arctic. I travelled with the Catlin Arctic Survey to their 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 [...]
Read more
Read more
Arctic expedition on Channel 4 news
The expedition I have been working with in the Arctic was featured on the news last week. You can watch the clip here. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
Arctic Experiences – Martin Hartley
Photographer and Arctic explorer Martin Hartley shares his adventures in 400 seconds. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
Important Antarctic memorabilia up for auction
If you have a spare £120,000 then please get yourself down to Bonham’s auction house in London on September 16th. Put in a bit for Edward Wilson’s autograph manuscript of his report on the celebrated Winter Journey to the Emperor Penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, Antarctica in 1911. This is the journey described later as [...]
Read more
Read more
