Grateful to be a finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Festival article prize among excellent company for my @thefence.bsky.social story 'In the Shadow of the Mountain'. www.banffcentre.ca/articles/mou...

A brief tale of two young men planning their trek using ChatGPT. My latest for ExWeb. explorersweb.com/when-chatgpt...

One of my favorite stories I’ve written for ExWeb. Roman Dial is both an Alaskan backcountry legend and a mathematician. He combined the two to come up with a formula on how far you can hike unsupported. explorersweb.com/how-far-can-...

Swimming and wild camping should be a right for all people to enjoy in the English countryside, Labour MPs have said. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On September 4, team of mostly Canadian paddlers brought their canoes ashore in Waskaganish, a Cree community on James Bay. They had completed a 1,200km journey that began three months earlier in Tadoussac, Quebec, where the Saguenay River meets the St Lawrence. explorersweb.com/canadian-tea...

In 1911, Scott and Amundsen reached for the South Pole with little grasp of human limits. A century later, tech and training have advanced, but sled hauling remains challenging. Three decades of research now reveal how Antarctic expeditions transform the body. explorersweb.com/what-antarct...

Alan Davison has completed a 6,800km solo kayak journey he calls “Australia’s longest inland paddle.” explorersweb.com/a-6800km-kay...

Canadian athlete Adam Mertens has completed a unique alpine traverse in Bow Valley in the Canadian Rockies, combining trail running, roped climbing, free solo climbing, scrambling, and even paddleboarding. My latest for ExplorersWeb. explorersweb.com/canadian-ath...

Reminds me on an xlnt book on water by an Oxford scholar. Water: A Biography. Tracks water from 10,000 BCE when nomads began to settle near moving water, rivers.

Did you know humans were caving 16,000 years ago? And not just easy stuff, technical sections too. This was an interesting one to research and write. explorersweb.com/extreme-cavi...

I'm writing an essay about how we need to expand access to public lands due to the potential of AI reducing the hours we need to work, and I ran across this interesting article. Effortful leisure is a source of meaning in everyday life www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In this new paper colleagues and I argue that ring-fencing paid work time for physical activity is a pragmatic strategy that would provide employees with the opportunity to be more active, likely without harming productivity. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

The all-female team who call themselves the Hudson Bay Girls have completed their 80-day canoe expedition from Grand Portage on Lake Superior to Hudson Bay. explorersweb.com/hudson-bay-g...

Just something I want to say about my trips and treks, I’ve said it before but I just want to repeat it. It would be dishonest of me to pretend that these treks are all about fundraising, I do these long distance treks for me, I enjoy pushing myself, I enjoy the test & being in wild places.

As a novice packrafter, but experienced wilderness traveller, recently planning my first packraft trip I was naturally interested in learning about how to stay safe. So I decided to dig into Luc Mehl’s fatality list and pull out some key points. explorersweb.com/what-kills-p...

BBC News - Litter picking on mountain like 'sinking ship' www.bbc.com/news/article...

A pair of Japanese data scientists have published a paper exploring whether artificial intelligence (AI) can predict mountaineering accidents. explorersweb.com/can-ai-stop-...

Next week, Americans Kyle Sprenger, 23, and Jacob Myers, 27, will travel to southeastern Alaska to ski 430km across the Bagley Icefield, often cited as the second-largest icefield outside the polar regions. explorersweb.com/crossing-the...

We are gen Z – and AI is our future. Will that be good or bad?

It’s never entirely summer in Greenland, at least not by southern standards, and several ski expeditions are heading onto the Ice Sheet with their sleds. explorersweb.com/greenlands-s...

I see so many articles about how overcrowded the Cotswolds is and yet no-one's interested in commissioning a piece about my quiet, historic little corner that is the resting place of a queen of England (and which can be reached via a £3 bookable minibus service from two different train lines)

Loic Cappellin is already over 7,000km into a multi-discipline expedition, traveling solely by human and wind power from North Cape in Norway to the Amazon. explorersweb.com/swiss-advent...

My story about Scottish demining charity @thehalotrust.bsky.social and their work in Ukraine is in today's @scotnational.bsky.social + my photos. In Budy, Chernihiv Oblast, 171 hectares remain contaminated. "We'll have work to do for decades." www.thenational.scot/news/2537810...

After Forrest Fenn’s infamous $2M treasure was found in the Rockies, a new hunt is on🗺💰 Justin Posey hid gold, gems, coins and a growing bitcoin wallet somewhere in the American West. This was a fun story to write! #TreasureHunt #Adventure #Mystery #Bitcoin explorersweb.com/after-forres...

Pre order goes live today. www.adventurebooks.com/products/pea...

The legendary astronaut Jim Lovell (of Apollo 8 & 13) has just died, aged 97. There are only 5 Apollo astronauts still living, only five who have been far enough from home to really see the precious jewel of Earth hanging in space. I wonder whether human eyes will see it again in a their lifetimes.

RIP Jim Lovell ‘When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo & just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live & work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.’

Sad to read the great Jim Lovell has left us. A true legend of exploration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last month, Pascal Smyth completed a 2,202km kayak journey from Canada to Alaska. Smyth’s route followed the Inside Passage, a network of largely protected waterways stretching up the Pacific Northwest coast. explorersweb.com/kayaking-the...

🎉 Just launched! #MLTCinsights series is live 👥 Video 1: ARC East Midlands experts unpack what multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) truly mean - and why teamwork improves care. 📺 YouTube: youtu.be/7cdgra-Wrfk 🎧 Spotify: tinyurl.com/mtwt5ajy @ashrouten.com @nihrarcs.bsky.social

Journalist missing in Norwegian wilderness found in good health

Last weekend @nicklifeafloat.bsky.social completed his 1,600km walk between the four cardinal corners of Scotland. It was a walk of healing and highlands and it was great to write about him rediscovering joy after years of living with severe mental health issues. explorersweb.com/walking-scot...

Resharing this old piece for a new audience. Guinness World Records is losing credibility in adventure sports - awarding dubious records, demoting trailblazers like Messner, and pushing commercial stunts over real feats. explorersweb.com/guinness-wor...

British adventurer James Baxter is over 80 days into a 6,000km cycle across Africa. The journey, from the Atlantic Ocean in Namibia to the Indian Ocean in Tanzania, is part of a wider project to complete seven adventures on seven continents. Africa is number five. explorersweb.com/cycling-6000...

Loved writing this www.ft.com/content/d7fa...

“The Alps remind me of the mountains of my childhood. They feel like home.” — Alem Big Qaderi, from Afghanistan @stephglinski.bsky.social on Peaks4All, a project supporting refugees in Switzerland through mountaineering. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Recently I came across a young climber who is posting videos of climbing without ropes (free soloing) with the strapline: "Today is day X of free soloing a harder route every day until I fall." Since writing the below I've worryingly found a French copycat. explorersweb.com/this-free-so...

I’ve written about flying above Northumberland in today’s Observer Magazine observer.co.uk/style/travel...

New Observer article on the Salt Path. Sounds like they made more stuff up. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

One young free solo climber seems to be risking his life for Instagram clicks and asking followers to pay him for the entertainment. “Today is day 11 of free soloing a harder route every day until I fall." explorersweb.com/this-free-so...

🚨Delighted to say my new book #SmallEarthquakes is published today by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Blending travel writing, history & reportage, it uncovers Britain’s lost connections with South America, from the Atacama to Tierra del Fuego, Easter Island to South Georgia. ➡️ tinyurl.com/2wy8j9df

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This piece went live last week, but sharing again as I think Max's story is worth reading. Just a few weeks out of college and on his first visit to Denali he skied 3 prime lines on the mountain as well as climbing the Cassin ridge. Plus a few other forays high up. explorersweb.com/three-ski-li...

‘In this entertaining and meticulously researched narrative, Meghji uncovers forgotten and often surprising links between Britain and South America.’ Delighted by Jules Stewart’s review of #SmallEarthquakes in the new issue of @geographical.co.uk — and to see it named book of the month.

Great to see this piece up. I really enjoyed chatting to Adam Mertens, a trail runner and climber in the Rockies who is part of a new generation who are putting down very fast times on routes that were previously multi day mountaineering affairs. explorersweb.com/a-trail-runn...

On July 18, Polish paddlesports athlete Sebastian Szubski completed a solo kayak circumnavigation of Great Britain. He covered the 3,000km route in 37 days, finishing three days faster than Dougal Glashier, the previous record holder from 2023. explorersweb.com/pole-claims-...

A 63-year-old speleologist has been rescued from the Abisso Paperino cave system in northern Italy after suffering a head injury approximately 40m below the surface. The incident occurred on Sunday when falling rocks struck the man. explorersweb.com/trapped-cave...

Over 24 days on Denali, Max Kilcoyne soloed and skied the Orient Express, climbed and skied down the Messner Couloir, and then climbed the legendary Cassin Ridge, skiing back down Rescue Gully. explorersweb.com/three-ski-li...

Last month, Canadian adventurers Dave Greene and Gaia Aish completed a 1,725km bike and canoe journey from the British Columbia border to the shores of the Arctic Ocean over 30 days. explorersweb.com/from-the-yuk...