Tag Archives: Adventure

A Record Breaking Attempt at the Snow Leopard Award

Published in Beyond Limits magazine on 10 January 2010 There is a niche of people in this world, albeit a small one, who are rising up against conformity and taking their lives into their own steady hands. Jon Gupta, Nick Valentine and photographer Alexandre Buisse are a trio who have adopted this stance. In July ofContinue reading “A Record Breaking Attempt at the Snow Leopard Award”

Row For Freedom – The Girls who took on the Atlantic

Published in Beyond Limits Magazine 4th January 2012 “THE WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT FOR THE FASTEST FEMALE TRANS-ATLANTIC ROW Five Women 40 Days 3,000 miles Two World Records One Ocean” They were strangers. Now, together they endure seasickness, peeing in a bucket on deck and traversing a boat while being permanently clipped on because at anyContinue reading “Row For Freedom – The Girls who took on the Atlantic”

Nathan Kingerlee of Outdoors Ireland

He is living the dream and driving a big silver Jeep. Nathan Kingerlee, founder of Outdoors Ireland, an outdoor adventure and training company boasts a daily life of  leading treks up Carauntoohill, setting up kayaks on the Lakes of Killarney at sunset, teaching snow and ice climbing courses to the eager and washing out wetsuits atContinue reading “Nathan Kingerlee of Outdoors Ireland”

Interview with Sean Conway – Next in line to attempt the G.W.R for the fastest cycle around the world.

1.What expeditions/adventures have you been on to date? Not a lot really. Well not as much as I would have liked to have done. I have done Kilimanjaro (dressed as a penguin), competed in ultra endurance canoeing marathons and spent a fair bit of time in the Himalayas soaking up the mountains. Adventure is notContinue reading “Interview with Sean Conway – Next in line to attempt the G.W.R for the fastest cycle around the world.”

Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist

1.What are your emotional motives behind your adventures? Mostly I go on adventures to satisfy my own curiosity. But what I’m curious about has changed since I started. On my first trip I was naive and idealistic, so everything was interesting and new and it broke my preconceptions. As time went on I became curiousContinue reading “Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist”

Nepal Riverboarding Exhibition

“10 people, 10 boards, one virgin river.” The Sun Kosi and Tamur River roar through Eastern Nepal. Born in the Himalayan mountains its rapids are fierce, its interior littered with rocks and wild surf that set out to crush and devour you. It was a free river, until last week when ten adventurers stepped up andContinue reading “Nepal Riverboarding Exhibition”

Interview with Fearghal O’Nuallain – Irish Adventurer

Geographer | Adventurer | Circumnavigator Fearghal is busy man, and not a guy to do things by half. For his university thesis he walked across Rwanda, then circumnavigated the globe by bike. For once, let me be bias, this guy is Irish, therefore he has won me over before I asked him the very first question.Continue reading “Interview with Fearghal O’Nuallain – Irish Adventurer”

Interview with Stuart Doyle – Everyone is an adventurer

Everyone has a story, this is the story of a man who wants the best of both worlds; a stable job, a family but also the thrill and demand of a life filled with adventures. His name is Stuart Doyle. 1. You left school at 16, did you know then what you wanted to do for the restContinue reading “Interview with Stuart Doyle – Everyone is an adventurer”

Interview with adventurer Dave Cornthwaite

Dave Cornthwaite is somewhat of a legend in the adventure world. On his maiden exhibition in 2006 he longboarded 896miles from John O’ Groats to Land’s end, making him the first person ever to skate the length of Britain. Following that, he burst his limitations bubble and concluded that there was no such thing as limits.Continue reading “Interview with adventurer Dave Cornthwaite”