How does an adventurer deal with not going on adventures anymore? We talk about resilience for expeditions, resilience for the tough times in life we haven't chosen, social media envy, and Alastair's tip for dealing with negative book reviews in a very public manner...
Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer and Author of 15 books. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.
Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year for 2012.
However, Alastair can often be found closer to home now. He trekked 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures, and in his new book, Local, he spends a year investigating the small map around his own home. Could a single map provide a lifetime of exploration? Alastair says he discovers more about the natural world in this project than in all his years in remote environments.
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Buy his Book: Local
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