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From Underworlds to Inner Space.
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Having previously talked at Wilderness lectures about his adventures exploring and filming cave systems around the world, Gavin now returns to tell how those adventures led in later years to the strange and exclusive world of the high end travel busi...
In some of David Livingstone's Footsteps
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This African journey had its origins in the premiere of Child 31, a film showcasing the extraordinary work of Argyll-based school-feeding charity Mary’s Meals, in Glasgow in November 2012. (Mark Beaumont incidentally has been a great supporter of thi...
On Thin Ice: a winter's walk in Siberia
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In February 2022 Charlie travelled to the Arctic in Far East Russia to undertake a 600-mile hike along the frozen surface of a remote river. The goal was to visit and learn about the indigenous Siberian peoples living along the route: horse breeders,...
Swimming to Afghanistan
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Swimming to Afghanistan! Absurd, surely Afghanistan is totally landlocked? Well, Chris Aslan took an unusual approach to this benighted but beautiful country by swimming to it (and back) from Tajikistan, across the Panj River, the headstream of the A...
Avoiding the Headlines
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Imagine hanging from a vertical pillar of ice, your arms dangling from the thin blades of a pair of ice axes and your feet precariously supported by two sharp crampon points. Perhaps a cloud of spindrift is blasting down your neck and your fingers an...
The Slow Road to Tehran
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At the height of the Syrian War, as the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe set off on her bicycle across the Middle East. Driven by a desire to learn more about this troubled region and its relationship with the West, Lowe’s 11,000-kilomet...
Running 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain
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When Elise set off to run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain, self-supported and carrying her kit on her back, she truly couldn't have been less qualified to embark on such an adventure. Prior to the challenge her long-distance running career co...
A Life of Adventure
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Tom McLean is a man who has never said, 'this cannot be done'. Click on 'View' to read the details of his amazing career, then come along and hear him recount tales and anecdotes from his extraordinary life....
Whale in the Living Room
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We're delighted that we have been able to reschedule John's talk.
So often we are told that the world is endangered. John says that he hardly raises an eyebrow when he hears that such and such an animal is on the brink of extinction – they all ar...