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Category Archives: Polls
What is the Most Beautiful Scottish Mountain?
A quick request on Twitter and Facebook came up with some real gems.
What is the Best Expedition Sleeping Bag?
A reader poll to gather a range of opinions on the best expedition sleeping bags.
What is the Best Single Person Tent?
I’m looking to get a new one-man tent – the £40 one I lived in for a year as I cycled across Asia is due a graceful retirement. Last year I asked what was the best expedition backpack. The feedback on that piece was so helpful. So I would really appreciate any suggestions you may [...]
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The Greatest Cycling Movies of All Time
A list, voted for on Facebook and Twitter, of some of the best movies of all time.
Will you recommend a great book for me to read?
I have finally made it to the end of the bookshelf that holds all my unread books. This is great news: it means that I have an excuse to buy more books and begin a new swathe of reading. So I thought I would use this blog today to ask you to recommend in the [...]
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Finish the sentence
One of my most popular blog posts was when I asked you what books you were reading at the moment. Today I thought I’d canvas your opinion again. All I’m asking you to do is to copy and paste these four sentences in the comments section and finish them off: I am inspired by I [...]
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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 are [...]
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Character Traits for Expeditions – poll result
This month I asked you to choose which character traits you valued most in expedition partners. The Top 5 traits you valued were: Sense of Humour – 33% Honesty -15% Willingness to Learn – 15% Humility – 12% Strong Nature – 7% If you value a sense of humour you might like these blog posts. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Who do you fancy: Fogle or Cracknell?
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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 [...]
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Poll: Scott or Amundsen?
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