I can’t say I’m one for routine, nor I am the biggest fan of winter. The wind, rain & unpleasant forecasts often get the better of me. So how does someone who likes neither of those things find the motivation for outdoor winter training? Quite simply, I like to have something to look forward to…
Is it worth it? Very broad and thought provoking question Callum! I kinda felt the need to write this, given the situation I’ve found myself in these last few weeks. January has really seen me lacking in motivation & my usual mojo. I can’t lie, I’m really feeling the pressure of my final year at…
First of all, I’d like to wish you all a very happy new year! Hope you all had a wonderful festive period & heres to another year filled with health, prosperity, travel & adventure! So you may have seen a couple of photos, of me running up hills at all hours over the last few…
Why wildcamping? Why not. I’m the kind of person to look for the reason to do something rather than the reason not to. I look for the opportunity, not the excuse. I try to think what might be, not what if. There’s a chance I might not get the best sunset ever, or the best…
I’m no expert when it comes to wildcamping. I haven’t camped out in the harshest of UK weathers, nor slept on the highest summits or the most isolated or remotes landscapes. I’m just a guy who wanted to give his adventures an extra dimension – combining many of my favourite things; hiking, sunsets, hot chocolate,…
Wow! Where to even start with this blog write up?! Normally I struggle for the opening line of my blog posts – this one, I don’t even know how I’m going to fit it all in! This was a last minute, spontaneous, f**k it sort of trip – with a last minute cancellation on a…
Saturday the 19th May was the day of the annual PHASE Worldwide Walk for Nepal event. The Walk for Nepal event, was founded by Alex Staniforth following his experience of the 2015 Nepal earthquake during his second attempt to climb Everest. The 2018 event took place Ben Nevis – the highest mountain on the British…
New beginnings… I’ve called this blog as such because of the strange feeling I got on Friday morning, I simply woke up feeling brilliant, almost as good as new. I can’t really put my finger on whether I am actually fixed yet, or if it was just simply my mind telling my body, you need an adventure,…