Cycling Across America

It must be the season for charity adventure challenges.

On April 24th 2011 Bob Livesey, a former British soldier, will set off to cycle across the United States of America. His cycling adventure will see him covering around 3,457 miles and climbing over 18 miles, in ascent, in 33 days.

Bob is undertaking this challenge to raise funds for the Royal British Legion, an organisation which helps over 100,000 serving and ex British Armed Forces servicemen and women every year.

Donations can be made at Bob's fundraising site:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=BobLivesey

The Epic Tri

How about this for a little adventure ...

Anthony Emmet and Bruce Duncan, two of the UK's top adventure racers are currently under-taking an amazing endurance challenge to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Their challenge, 'The Epic Tri' is a massive none stop triathalon challenge consisting of running the Bob Graham 24hour fellrunning challenge, cycling on a tandem from John-O-Groats to Lands End and then completeing the gruelling Devizes to Westminster canoe race.

The pair have already completed the Bob Graham round consisting of 65 miles, 42 Lakeland Mountain Tops and 27,000ft of climbing in under 24 hours, which is considered to be the toughest fell running challenge in the UK.

Anthony and Bruce are now well into their cycle leg which will see them covering almost 900 miles from the most northerly to the most southerly points of  mainland Britain. They hope to complete the cycle leg in around 60 hours and hope to arrive at Lands End sometime on the evening of 22nd April.

The challenge will culminate in them competing in the 125 mile Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race, over the Easter Weekend. The DW is the largest and longest canoe/kayak race in the country and has to be completed within 24 hours. The record for which stands at a staggering 15.5 hours.

You can follow this truely epic charity challenge and  make a donation to Cancer Research UK by visiting http://www.theepictri.com/

New adventure travel website launched

A new adventure travel website  Kumutu  has recently been launched which provides travellers with a fantastic resourse to checkout  hundreds of tour operators across the globe. The site provides a facility to allow people, looking for adventure holidays, to search for specific activities or destinations, read reviews and book their selected trips through the tour operators listed on the site.

 

Sophie Collett completes Atacama Desert Race

Sophie Collet completed the Atacama Desert Crossing in a total of 42:59:02.

The Desert race, which Sophie ran to raise money for Help for Heroes was held over six stages. Her individual stage times were: Stage 1: 04:56:40; Stage 2: 06:51:17; Stage 3: 07:19:24; Stage 4: 08:35:51; Stage 5: 14:00:00; Stage 6: 01:15:50.

Sophie has almost reached her fundraising target of £8,000. Anyone wishing to sponsor sophie and donate to H4H can do so at: www.justgiving.com/Sophie-Collett

Well done Sophie and for a great cause.

Sarah Outen reaches the French coast

Photo courtesy of Sarah Outen

After 65 hours and 110 nautical miles, paddling by sea kayak with adventure film maker Justine Curgenven, from Tower Bridge, London, Sarah Outen reached the Northern Coast off France after an 8.5hr crossing of the English Channel.

Leg 1 of Sarah's London 2 London, round the world adventure, is now complete and she will now set off on the next stage of her epic trip alone by bicycle.

You can follow Sarah's round the world journey at http://www.sarahouten.com/

Chris M

National Geographic - A week of adventure & expedition films

From Sunday 3rd until Saturday 9th April Expedition Week will be returning to the National Geographic Channel . There will be a fantastic line-up of shows, with two new premiere's showing each night, throughout the week.

The weeks viewing will kick off with Eating with Cannibals . Some of the other shows that will be featured are Hunt for the Abominable Snowman , Egypt's Lost Rival and Lost Land of the Tiger .

 

A complete listing of the weeks programmes can be found on the  Expedition Week website.

And She's Off

At 13.00 hrs today, Friday 1st April, Sarah Outen began her, London 2 London, round the world adventure.

Photo courtesy of Sarah Outen

She set off from Tower Bridge, in her kayak, escorted by two Royal Navy Patrol Boats whilst a large crowd of well wishers lined the banks of the Thames to see her off.

Click on the following links to see media coverage and photographs of Sarah setting out on her journey:         a BBC News article and photographs and the Channel 4 piece.

Sarah's friend and fellow adventurer Dave Cornthwaite took some video footage of the start of what will be an amazing journey and adventure.