British adventurer and author; cycled round the world from 2001 to 2005 and popularised the 'microadventure'; writes and films about getting outdoors close to home.
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The essence of adventure is to seek out what scares you and risk uncertainty and failure.
The essence of adventure is to seek out that which scares you and to risk uncertainty and failure.
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Adventure has a strange hierarchy in which a short expedition feels less valid than a longer one.
There is a strange hierarchy in adventure. A short expedition somehow feels less impressive, less valid, less interesting than a longer one.
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From one piece My Midsummer Morning 2 beliefs · alastairhumphreys.com
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Declare and embrace your vulnerabilities and they cease to be weaknesses.
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The essence of adventure is to seek out what scares you and risk uncertainty and failure.Their words
The essence of adventure is to seek out that which scares you and to risk uncertainty and failure.
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An expedition can give an adventurer a powerful sense of meaning and motivation for years.Their words
An expedition can give an adventurer a powerful sense of meaning and motivation for years, even decades.
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Adventure has a strange hierarchy in which a short expedition feels less valid than a longer one.Their words
There is a strange hierarchy in adventure. A short expedition somehow feels less impressive, less valid, less interesting than a longer one.
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The premise of The Forest Unseen is that the author is a biologist who goes out with a one meter square quadrat, which is a scientific measuring grid.
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I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when I was cycling through Siberia in the middle of winter 20 years ago, and it’s one of the few books that’s completely stuck with me.
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer MorningTheir words
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is about a young man in the 1930s who, one day in early June, walks out from the little village where he grew up.
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The essence of adventure is to seek out that which scares you and to risk uncertainty and failure.
My Midsummer Morning Said 15 Oct 2026
Declare and embrace your vulnerabilities and they cease to be weaknesses.
My Midsummer Morning Said 15 Oct 2026
There is a strange hierarchy in adventure. A short expedition somehow feels less impressive, less valid, less interesting than a longer one.
The Roads We Take Said 9 Oct 2026
An expedition can give an adventurer a powerful sense of meaning and motivation for years, even decades.
The Roads We Take Said 9 Oct 2026
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I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when I was cycling through Siberia in the middle of winter 20 years ago, and it’s one of the few books that’s completely stuck with me.
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is about a young man in the 1930s who, one day in early June, walks out from the little village where he grew up.
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