Category Archives: Humour

14
Oct
2011

Around the World in Search of Mullets

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Posted in Expeditions, Humour, Pecha Kucha
Is this the most epic expedition of recent years? No.
15
Apr
2011

Cycling to the Ashes

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Posted in Cycling, Humour, Photo Friday, slideshows, Travel
The first talk from the Night of Adventure: Oli Broom cycled to watch England whup the Aussies at cricket.
19
Mar
2011

Arsing around at High Latitudes

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Posted in Arctic, Humour
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.
07
Nov
2010

Andy Kirkpatrick’s lecture series

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Posted in Humour
I’ve just spent a great evening at one of Andy Kirkpatrick’s lectures. If you haven’t heard him before, here is a teaser: Andy’s talks are definitely not for those easily offended, those who want to hear a “proper” climbing talk, or Bear Grylls. But if you’re not put off yet you’ll enjoy some of these [...]

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09
Sep
2010

Parkour: the best exercise there is?

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Posted in Humour, Training
This fun little video clip of parkour action is very impressive, particularly the final scene. I am so impressed with the bravery, flexibility, strength and agility these guys have, especially as they manage to do it all with their trousers round their backsides, in the style of today’s yoof. Enjoy. DON’T MISS A THING – [...]

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29
Jun
2010

Mum’s gone to Iceland.

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Posted in Humour, Iceland, Packraft, Photography
No, she hasn’t really. But I am off to Iceland tomorrow. Not the nasty frozen food shop, but the land of the now-famous volcano. And I can’t wait! I’m really excited about this expedition. Jumping around with excitement. I had worried about the prospect of being on top of a remote glacier far from a [...]

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02
Apr
2010

The M25 by foot

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Posted in Humour, MicroAdventure, Pecha Kucha
Today my friend Rob tells of our walk round the M25. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
29
Mar
2010

Bike crash video

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Posted in Cycling, Humour
A wonderful zen-like simplicity to this 6 second long piece of gratuitous wincing. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
12
Mar
2010

Adventures in a Flying Car

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Posted in Humour, Pecha Kucha
Today Neil Laughton tells us about his exploits in the world’s first road legal flying car. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
15
Feb
2010

Walking a lap of the M25

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Posted in Best Bits, Humour, MicroAdventure, Writing
As soon as the idea formed I knew it would be an adventure. Not a massive adventure. But that was fine. I was not looking for that. I wanted something small. I wanted a micro adventure. I recruited friend and fellow adventurer Ron Lilwall to accompany me, we decided to make a film of our [...]

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03
Feb
2010

Wild, wonderful places to sleep

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Posted in Best Bits, Humour, Lists, Travel
In praise of the humble bivvy bag: some of the stupid (yet wonderfully memorable and uplifting) open air places I have slept. - On a swimming platform out in the bay in San Sebastian - On the terraces of Biarritz rugby stadium (a bit of fence climbing required here!) - In a (new) sewage pipe [...]

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17
Dec
2009

Please Stand on the Right (if you are a loser)

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Posted in Best Bits, Health and Fitness, Humour, Ramblings, Uncategorized
Everyone is allowed to have one or two petty pet hates. Trivial things, unnoticed to all but you. Things that rile you so much that they turn you to Pub Bore, re-telling your rants to disinterested friends and colleagues in futile attempts to vent your spleen. Well, here is one of mine… But first, a [...]

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10
Nov
2009

War zone road trip

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Posted in Expeditions, Humour, Travel
Here is a brilliant clip from my mate’s crazy motorcycle journey – riding through a war zone in Afghanistan. A ride done for the very best of motives: “for the hell of it”. Warning – if you don’t like swearing, don’t watch this clip. (If you don’t approve of swearing then you probably wouldn’t want [...]

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27
Oct
2009

Beyond the Pole

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Posted in Expeditions, Humour, South Pole
The last couple of weeks on this blog have become a bit self-helpy, wishy-washy. So it’s time today to get back to the world of expeditions. One of the deep frustrations with working in this sphere is the choking algae of novelty projects, celebrities grabbing their 10-minutes of manliness and -true story- people emailing to [...]

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24
Sep
2009

A day in the life of an Author / Adventurer / Motivational Speaker / Big Kid

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Posted in Best Bits, Humour, Ramblings, Speaking
An insight into my life: Write India book and eat biscuits on train. Arrive at speaking venue. Find toilets to get changed in. (Disabled ones are better: bigger and rarely used, therefore nice and clean) Emerge looking like Bond. Tuck into free swanky meal at International Business Forum. Exercise restraint on free booze. Slug back [...]

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31
Aug
2009

Very funny video

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Posted in Humour
A very funny video. No message or moral or relevance. It’s not here to encourage you (like this), to point you to some good books to read (not mine!), to introduce you to my guest bloggers or to tempt you to follow me on Twitter. It’s just good, mad fun. Enjoy. DON’T MISS A THING [...]

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13
Aug
2009

Beard

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Posted in Expeditions, Humour
One of the best things about big expeditions is comedy facial hair (unless you have a horrible ginger beard). Here’s some fine beard growing, and a cool trip too. (Well done to Kevin who pipped me to the post with this video!) xqrv7a86cj DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you [...]

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10
Aug
2009

I wish I was an accountant…

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Posted in Humour
I gave an after dinner talk to an accountancy firm this evening. One of the questions at the end still has me chuckling: “When you were camping at sunset in the Serengeti or cresting an Andean peak in the crisp light of dawn, did you never just think, “I wish I was an accountant…”?” He [...]

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13
Mar
2009

The ultimate Motivational Speech?

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Posted in Best Bits, Humour, Motivation
DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.
06
Jan
2009

Take a Seat

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Posted in Cycling, Expeditions, Humour, Travel
My friend Dom has put together a fantastic trailer for the film about his ride, alone and on a tandem, from Alaska to Patagonia. You can watch it here. One of his older clips is below. DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL: Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, [...]

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