Alastair Humphreys Adventurer | Author | Motivational Speaker

Guest Blog – Sarah Outen: “let’s raise a glass to not knowing which path to take, to exploring the options”

‘To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom’ – Gide

Sarah Outen is the youngest woman to row across any ocean. She is only the eighth woman to have rowed across an ocean solo. Of nine previous solo attempts to cross the Indian Ocean, [...]

Rowing to France

Despite seasickness, boat troubles and unkind tides, we made it to France! At midnight on Friday Phil and I pulled out of Dover harbour to try to row across the English Channel in support of Help for Heroes.
15 hours, and many vomits later we made it! You can read my account here.
Any donations to help [...]

The end of the Training

As with most things worth doing there have been times this week when I have wondered whether it was worth doing. Phil and I had hoped to be fine-tuning our rowing technique together, in preparation for rowing to France. But we lost one day to a broken down vehicle, and another to an iced-up slipway. [...]

Rowing Training begins (at last!)

After the usual logistical stresses and the week’s snow chaos, it was a relief for Phil and I to get out on the water together at last today.
The mirror-calm of the London Regatta Centre may not be an ideal replica for the world’s busiest shipping lane, but it was an ideal place for international rowing [...]