Explore
Alpkit’s Big Shakeout
When I was twelve, I wrote an essay in primary school. It was called, “A perfect summers day’. Today, the scribbles of my childhood climbed from my copybook and materialised before my eyes. It was all there. The backdrop of sun, tents, tepees, a temporary bmx track, smiling people pushing bikes, climbing walls, kids on their fathers shoulders laughing like lunatics. I walk amongst them on my own, a huge red backpack hugging my shoulders....
Adventure News – A Week In Review
Polar explorer Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere depart the UK today for Antarctica to begin their 1,800 mile unsupported journey from the Antarctica coast to the South Pole and back. The Scott Expedition, a tribute to the legendary Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition, will see the pair walk nine and a half hours a day for over 110 days in temperatures as low as -50°C. Good luck from all of us here at Sidetracked for...
The Post Roads Expedition
The three horses we purchased in Ust-Kamengorsk were by no means unsuitable for expedition travel, but they were not perfect. Their ages were 5, 8 and 9, one with a big, but scabbed girthband wound (our girthband rested in a different place so it seemed an acceptable inconvenience) and one that was blind in one eye, although I never had any indication that this affected him in a negative manner; indeed he was the best...
Adventure News: A Week In Review
Tom Denniss has successfully completed the fastest circumnavigation of the world on foot, when he pranced into Sydney over the weekend after almost two years on the road. Previously featured expedition Polar Bears and Paddleboards have finished the Greenland Expedition – an attempt to Stand Up Paddleboard 100km across the Sermilik Fjord towards the Helheim Glacier proving to all the doubters the accessibility of the growing sport. Tomorrow Philippe and Anna Gatta set out to...
Adventure News: A Week In Review
The big success story of the week is endurance swimmer Diana Nyad with her hugely impressive completion of the 110-mile passage from Cuba to Florida. After four attempts over 35 years, this, the fifth attempt saw Nyad exit the shark and jelly fish infested water with a smile on her face. The 64-year-old spent 53 hours in the ocean in the two-day, two-night epic swim, becoming the first person to do so unaided by the...
Field Journal
A weekly window on the world of adventure
One email per week featuring the best of Sidetracked and what we’ve discovered on our virtual travels.