Alastair Humphreys Adventurer | Author | Motivational Speaker

New Year’s poll

Every year I make New Year’s Resolutions. At the end of the year I look back to see how many of them I have managed to stick to. I rarely manage to keep them up all year (although last year I did successfully take a photo every day). But I still believe that they [...]

Poll: vital character traits for expeditions

On a recent TV interview Sir Ranulph Fiennes continued his outrageous racist discrimination against people from Yorkshire by daring to suggest that they were not good people to take on expeditions.
Clearly he is wrong.
But I would be interested to see what you consider to be the single most vital character trait when choosing an expedition [...]

Results of my Mark Beaumont dilemma poll

A few weeks ago I ran a poll on this site in response to Mark Beaumont bypassing Colombia on his ride down the Americas. I loved cycling through Colombia and I thought it a real shame that the Health and Safety Fun Police at the BBC deemed it too dangerous for Mark.
So I asked myself [...]

Poll: impoverished freedom or a bit of a compromise?

My friend Mark Beaumont announced yesterday on Twitter that his journey down the Americas will now bypass Colombia. He’s going to take a boat from Panama to Ecuador. (I took a yacht from Colombia to Panama, skipping the Darien Gap which was too scary for me). This is a pity for him as Colombia is [...]

Who do you fancy: Fogle or Cracknell?

What was your thinking on this? Were you surprised at the outcome? Have your say in the comments.

What would you like to see more of on this blog?

It’s a tricky business, this blogging malarkey. Why do I do it? Partly because I enjoy it, partly as I’m a bit of a geek, partly as I hope it might encourage the odd person, be in some way motivational. But I also do it -frankly- because, as a 21st Century ‘Adventurer’, blogging is one [...]

Poll: Scott or Amundsen?