In January, 2011, Kyle Henning began a human-powered, solo expedition from the lowest point on the African continent to the highest. Starting at the shore of Lake Assal, Djibouti (155m below sea level),...
Read More →Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in the African country of Togo when he discovered a picture book about Greenland. The book showed stunning pictures of icebergs, snowcapped mountains and icy plains — Instantly...
Read More →If you think the world’s longest skateboard journey was crazy then you are definitely going to like this one: Riding the world’s largest skateboard! The creation of The World’s Largest Skateboard is the...
Read More →Ranulph Fiennes (not to be confused with Ralph Fiennes, the actor) is a great explorer. So great even that according to the Guinness Book of World Records he is “The world’s greatest living...
Read More →In 1977, Richard Feynman – Nobel Physics Laureate of 1965, amateur safe-cracker, practical joker and all-round ‘curious character’ – set out on one fantastic final quest….. Richard Feynman has always had an infectious...
Read More →In 1998, John Wood was a rising star in the executive ranks of computer giant Microsoft. In only seven years time he had managed to work himself up in the company from trainee...
Read More →Danny Wallace, lives in Bow, East London, a stone’s throw away from Greenwich. When he visits the Greenwich’s Royal observatory, and of course the Prime Meridian of the world that runs right through...
Read More →One wet evening in the spring of 1988, Rory Spowers was enjoying dinner with his friend Dave Elliott when they started discussing their post-university graduation plans. After Dave’s suggestion of riding a mountainbike...
Read More →Two English girls – Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent (Ants) and Jo Huxster – decided to make the biggest trip ever undertaken on three wheels, driving a bright pink Tuk Tuk from Bangkok (Thailand) to Brighton...
Read More →This is the true story about two friends, a drunken bet, a 25,000 mile journey – and a lot of people called Dave Gorman. Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace are best friends, flatmates...
Read More →Human powered Round The World (RTW) trips have always fascinated people throughout history with people trying to set or break the record running, skateboarding or dancing badly around the world! One of the...
Read More →Hollywood blockbuster actors and friends Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Star Wars) and Charley Boorman (The Serpent’s Kiss) share a passion for motorcycles and adventure. Both of them got inspired by reading Ted Simon’s classic...
Read More →In 2005, 14-year-old Savannah Grace Watkins’ world is shattered when her mother unexpectedly announces that she and her family (mother 45, brother 25 and sister 17) would soon embark on an incredible, open-ended...
Read More →Imagine standing on Moscow’s red square in 1987, the time of the cold war, the iron curtain and a very inaccessible USSR / Soviet Union. And imagine seeing a plane passing just 10...
Read More →Life is full of opportunities. The problem is to recognize them when they present themselves, and that isn’t always easy. Tiziano Terzani’s opportunity, for instance, had all the marks of a curse: an...
Read More →Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded (with George Soros) the Quantum Fund in 1972. It became one of the most successful funds of all time as in the following...
Read More →Polish Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to a Siberian Gulag alongside thousands of others who had been...
Read More →American national Christopher Hunt has set his sights on Cuba, the country where crumbling but elegant facades overlook shady street activities, where vintage Ford Fairlanes rumble past Soviet Ladas in the fast lanes...
Read More →Mark Shand, British conservationist and adventurer, fell in love with elephants as a teenage rebel more than 40 years ago. He had just been expelled from his Dorset public school for smoking cannabis,...
Read More →You don’t necessarily have to run all the way around the globe, hitchike for thousand of miles or push an empty wheelchair across a continent to make it into the ranks of the...
Read More →Never pass a bar that has your name on it, says the eight rule of travel. A very rewarding rule if your name is McCarthy and you’re wandering through the West of Ireland....
Read More →Two hundred flights, 120,000 air miles, 400 hours in flight, 220 different airports, 12.5 days waiting for flights and 140 different beds. Imagine the check-in hassles, the different airline meals and the jet...
Read More →Pure devotion or pure madness?! Hauling a Giant Cross around the world! For 26 years. Today, Good Friday 2013, believers around the world commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus some thousands of year. One...
Read More →More than a few have embarked on an ‘around the world’ adventure, but no one had ever done so powered exclusively by the sun. Meet Louis Palmer and his home-made “Solartaxi”. What began...
Read More →Norwegians are a sturdy and determined people. And Thor Heyerdahl might be the sturdiest and determined of them all. Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnographer who believed that people from South America could...
Read More →Instead of setting a new bouncy castle sailing record, Paul Tucker decided to create an entire league of his own: a pedalo crossing of the English channel. Former army major Paul Tucker crossed...
Read More →Not a kickass trip in the traditional, flesh and bones, tears and sweat style you are used to from kickasstrips.com. But therefore not less impressive is Google’s “World’s Highest Peaks” gallery. It allows...
Read More →Manon Ossevoort is a theatre maker from Holland who invented a story of a girl traveling to the end of the World on her tractor. But what is the ‘End of the World’?...
Read More →In late 1999, Chris Hatherly and Tim Cope (who we still know from his Genghis Kahn horse riding adventure) were on the fringe of Russia’s north-west contemplating their decision to ride together Across...
Read More →Mary Poppins used to fly around London with an umbrella in the 1964 musical fairy tale that most of you will have heard of. Now, in 2013 this has become reality! Inspired by...
Read More →This is the story about Terry Fox, his cancer, his amputation, and his unbounded determination to run across Canada on one leg! Terry Fox was born n July 28, 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
Read More →In the ancient Amazonian language of Tupi, pororoca translates as ‘great destructive noise’. This noise refers to the emergence of a massive tidal bore in the Amazon, that rolls in once a day...
Read More →Climbing the tallest mountains has always been an obsession of mankind and travelers around. And its always cool to scale some peaks and enjoy those vistas. But going beyond Everest’s base camp is...
Read More →Ever thought about walking across the USA? It would definitly be an epic trip full of diversity and adventure The video below will definitely give you inspiration and ideas covering a walk across...
Read More →Raised in London by a German mother and a Romanian father, Ted Simon found himself impelled by an insatiable desire to explore the world. It led him to abandon an early career in...
Read More →September 13th 1999. Three men, each of them newcomers to South America, begin a trek inland from the coast of southern Peru. They are Colin Angus, 27, of Canada, Scott Borthwick, 23, of...
Read More →The cyclown circus is a bunch of circus artists who, for over six years, have been cycling their modified ‘mutant’ bikes around the globe from town to town, looking for a place to...
Read More →The epic story of Lynne Cox, one of the world’s greatest long distance swimmers ever who traveled the world to swim places no-one had ever swam before. Starting as a normal pool swimmer...
Read More →In June 2004 Tim Cope set off on a kickass journey, 10.000km (6.200 miles) from Mongolia to Hungary by Horse. His goal was to trace back the steps of Genghis Khan from Mogolia...
Read More →This was the work title of a travel experiment conducted by professional vagabonder Rolf Potts. As the author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, Potts was definitely...
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