Tag Archives: Expeditions

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 curiousContinueContinue reading “Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist”

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.ContinueContinue reading “Interview with Fearghal O’Nuallain – Irish 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.ContinueContinue reading “Interview with adventurer Dave Cornthwaite”

Interview with Alan Curr- Adventurer and Wild Frontiers employee

1. You lived in Nepal for three months, why Nepal? Several reasons really. The main one I guess was because although I had good friends living in places like Australia & New Zealand, which were countries I’d visited a couple of times and knew well, I wanted to go somewhere different and try to testContinueContinue reading “Interview with Alan Curr- Adventurer and Wild Frontiers employee”

Interview with Dave Cornthwaite

          Dave Cornthwaite is a British adventurer, author and motivational speaker. 1.Does the job of an adventurer/author and motivational speaker go hand in hand? Was this your childhood dream job? It definitely wasn’t something I considered doing when I was younger, I just didn’t know it was possible. I don’t really seeContinueContinue reading “Interview with Dave Cornthwaite”

The Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival

I took my place amongst the crowd in George Square Lecture Theatre. I was alone, as usual so I automatically tuned into the casual banter taking place around me. Common themes arose, travel, adventure, kayaking, cycling….. I looked around and unsurprisingly the words matched that of their owners. They all, myself included, had that ruggedContinueContinue reading “The Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival”