“You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to do an expedition.
You do not need to be an elite athlete, expertly trained, or rich to have an adventure. Adventure is only a state of mind. Adventure is stretching yourself; mentally, physically or culturally. It is about doing what you do not normally do, pushing yourself hard and doing it to the best of your ability.”
Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer, Author, Photographer and Blogger. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents. More recently Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run 6 marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole.
The author of 6 books, Alastair was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year in 2012.
We are deeply inspired by Alastair and his belief in the diversity of adventure. He has been all over the world and doing some very extreme expeditions, like this one to Greenland:
And in the same time he is the biggest believer of small adventures, which he is pioneering now with his concept of microadventures:
“This is the year of the microadventure: a whole year when, instead of exotic foreign adventures, I am committed to trying to encourage people to get outside, get out of their comfort zone, go somewhere they’ve never been, go on a microadventure. An adventure that is close to home, cheap, simple, short, and yet very effective.”
If you got curious (and you should!), Alastair just published a new book on microadventures, helping people to take the spirit of a big adventure and squeezes it into a day or even a few hours. Go ahead and have a look on it here!
Al was also so kind to document several expeditions and microadventures on Epiclist, where you can explore them in details and start planning your own journeys! Discover it on Epiclist.
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