Haute (off) Route

Thank you so much for the Filo down jacket that I ordered 2 months ago - it literally saved my life! I am so happy that I decided to buy it just before my holidays to the Alps.....

Mountain Bikepacking

My name is Benji Haworth. I've been getting away with being a freelance photographer and writer for a few years now. I specialise in mountain bike stuff. I've been a mountain...

Altai Expedition

Last August George Cave and compatriots headed out to Russia and a rarely visited mountain range, here's a brief summary of their trip, but a full report can now be downloaded. ...

Canyoning in the Southern Alps

What do you get when you combine climbing, kayaking, caving and a gigantic children’s water park?  I couldn’t quite believe it when I stumbled across the relatively unheard of...

Lessons learned

I don’t know where to start this blog. I don’t know wether to start with the good bits, or the bad bits. I don’t know wether to start with the lessons learned or why I had to...

Dachstein Caving Exped 2012

Chris Jones swaps the openess he enjoyed on the Patagonia Expedition Race last February for the Austrian depths.  

This month 35 cavers from 8 countries will descend upon the...

With Love From Madagascar Update 4

Writing this logbook turns out to be more difficult and exhausting as expected. First, you need internet. Can't get it everywhere. Second, you need time. But we have lots of...

With Love From Madagascar Update 3

Easy road, easy going. Rolling the tropics. 80 kilometers a day was the goal. After around 40 km, Klara's knee startet to hurt. It got worse within that day and we had several...

Denali, final testing.

With Denali looming some of the Cold Summits team headed to the Brecon Beacons to do some final kit testing and team bonding. Finding plenty of reasurances that the team were...

With Love From Madagascar Update 2

Elliptic story telling… I wait for a café. In front of me lies Madagascar, the sea, a small Monkey Island coral bay, coco nut trees, white beach with gentle grey stones on which...

With Love From Madagascar Update 1

Klara Harden and Karsten Prühl start their tour and making of the film around Madagascar with mixed experiences. Here's a short excerpt from Karsten's logbook as they set off.

With Love From Madagascar

Last year we supported The Shipwrecked Rambler, Klara Harden on a solo trip through Iceland from which she produced the film Made in Iceland. This year she has another film in...

Antarctic Diaries 2012 - Part 5

Monday 5th March
Terrapin Hill
We awoke this morning to a howling gale and the sound of snow being hurled against the tent. So we turned over and went back to sleep. By 8.30,...

Antarctic Diaries 2012 - Part 4

Friday 2nd March
Terrapin Hill
This morning, excited to be finally ashore, we rose early and got the water boiling for our porridge. We had some jerry cans of ship’s water,...

Cold Summits- Denali Exped 2012

So what happens when climbers with varying skills and ages get together on Denali for 4 weeks? Team work and support will undoubtedly come to the fore, so we’re looking forward...

Good from the Bad

24 Hours of Exposure 2012. April 7 Newcastleton. Scott Swalling

The rain pelted the canvass and wind crashed into the tent as finally I drifted off, thinking that the course...

Antarctic Diaries 2012 - Part 3

Wednesday 29th February
On board the ship
It is 1300 and we are about the leave the natural harbour of Deception Island. We have sat here for two days but high winds prevented...

Antarctic Diaries 2012 - Part 2

Saturday 25th February
On board the ship.
Last night the ship again ran into a wall of ice in Antarctic Sound and had to turn back north again. The most recently acquired...

Antarctic Diaries 2012 - Part 1

Friday 17th February 2012
On board the Ship
This morning the team set sail en route to Antarctica. This is the first season south for the new ice breaker to Antarctic waters...

Vin Cox - Hungry Bike Ride

We caught up with Vin before he heads off on his new venture The Hungry Bike Ride, to find out more about it. You can always keep up to date from Vin’s Facebook page

The idea...

Patagonia Expedition Race 2012 - Summary

‘So, what races have you done before?’
‘Errrm, None…’

This was quite a common conversation for us in the days prior to the race, it usually ended with shocked and concerned...

En route to Antarctica.

Beth Davies and team are on their way to Antarctica.
The team have arrived in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. I feel like I’ve been travelling for weeks! Aberystwyth –...

Arrowhead 135 - the 2nd 24(+) hours

27 hours 39 mins: It was snowing when I left the checkpoint. This irrationally annoyed me because the flakes kept hitting my eye lashes and ensured that I walked the next few...

Arrowhead 135 - the 1st 24 hours

A couple of weeks have passed since the Arrowhead 135 ultra race in Minnesota ended. Enough time for me to grab some sleep and wear out the excuse that my feet were sore so...

Patagonia Expedition Race 2012 preparation

The 10th edition of the Patagonia Expedition Race gets underway on the 14th of Feb. Having undergone a selection process, of the 20 teams there will be one from the UK and they...

Back to Antarctica

Antarctica season #1 saw Bethan Davies and team head out to James Ross Island back in 2011. In just over a weeks time she’ll be heading back out there with a slightly different...

Arrowhead 135 - run

Arrowhead 135. Northern Minnesota USA. Deep Winter ultra-endurance, bike, ski or run. Paul Errington took it on by bike back in 2010, this year will see Lee Peyton heading out...

British Universities Kayaking Expedition Venezuela - Full Video

The Expedition went to the amazing South American country, Venezuela.  Based around 3 locations; the steep, boulder rivers in Merida, the 33,000 cumecs Rio Orinoco monster and...

Uniyakers Venezuela Sum Up

The Uniyakers are back from their expedition to Venezuela and here they sum up a great trip.

All photos © Rob Moffatt. Thanks Rob

In Venezuela, thousands of unknown rivers...

Made In Iceland

The Shipwrecked Rambler, Klara Harden embarked on a solo voyage across Iceland and to document the journey. Enjoy the photos. The film will be premiering at our Big Shakeout...

Team Sky Ropes

A crack team from Alpkit GHQ headed to Thornbridge Outdoors in order to see what they could throw at them.

The Big Shakeout weekend is all set to get the adrenaline pumping...

Learning on the road

Last month James and Adrian headed off on a 100 day tour of over 20 European countries. Although very familiar with the two wheeled type of transport, when it comes to cycle...

Antarctic Season #2

At the beginning of the year Bethan Davies and crew spent a few months on James Ross Island, Antarctica. Well they are due to head back again in 2012. You can catch the first...

Rain-stop-Sun-stop-Wind-stop

The Shipwrecked Rambler- first telegram from Iceland

Experience the horizontal rain, cross ice-cold rivers and climb up mountains. THIS IS WONDERFUL!

Back in Reykjavik for a...

Uni Kayakers in Venezuela

After arriving into the boiling heat of Caracas we started a long drive West to a rafting base near Barinas. Here we spent a few days finding our feet paddling the local rafting...

British Uni’s Kayak Expedition 2011 - Venezuela

Since the first British University Kayak Expedition to Kyrgyzstan back in 2005 some of the best student kayakers have been chomping at the bit to secure a place on one. Running...

Climate Change Consortium of Wales

Bethan Davies attends a climate change conference in Aberystwyth

C3W Conference 27th-28th April 2011, Aberystwyth

Last week, in between the two long weekends, I attended and...

Greenland - a dirtbag expedition

“we just want to go and climb big and make a statement for the everyday dirtbag climber”
Fed up with reading the same old stories of the proclaimed ‘rock stars’ doing this and...

Team Antarctica - The Return

The team (Jonathan Carrivick, Neil Glasser, Bethan Davies, and Alan Hill) were deployed into the field early on 21st January by the RRS Ernest Shackleton after a decidedly rough...

Yukon Arctic Ultra- Race report

The Breakingstrain, Lee and Garry, completed their first Yukon Arctic , here they run down how it went.

Race Day – Sunday 6th February – Whitehorse River Start line

Yukon Arctic Ultra

The Yukon Ultra is taking place from the 6th to the 19th of Feb, for Mountain bikers, XC-skiers and Runnners. The Breakingstrain will be taking our Hunka XL bivvy bag as they...

Antarctica bound

Bethan Davies is en-route to James Ross Island, Antarctica. We managed to pick up some faint signals as she disappeared further South…

17 Jan 2011.

Please find enclosed a...

Not Mobile On The Road

Nick Scott set off a few months ago now on a trip around the world he had dubbed… Around the World in 80 Rides, the idea to take in as much cycling in different countries as...

Zero Emissions Odyssey

Kevin Shannon set off a few months ago to circumnavigate the globe, here he drops us a line to let us know how he’s going and what it’s all about. He’s taken with him a Hunka...

Trans-Provence - The Final Days

We’ve been pleased to support the Trans Provence Mountain Bike Event again this year and it looks to have been another amazing 7 days. In his last report of the final days,...

Trans-Provence Day 4-5

Reporting back from the Trans-Provence Days 4 and 5, David Warren is starting to wonder how life will be the same again having to ride back at home

Day 4 – A day of mixed...

Antarctic Field Course

Part two in the series of reports from Dr Bethan Davies as she embarks for a field season on James Ross Island. He she gets a better idea of what she can expect and gets...

Wakhan Dream

Alan Halewood - freelance Mountaineering Instructor (MIC) won a PipeDream 800 sleeping bag in our Sweet Dreams competition last year. His dream was to explore the Qala -e Hurst...

Trans-Provence Days 1-3

Part 2 as the event gets underway and everyone tries to contain their nerves, sounds like they’re all like coiled springs ready to be unleashed. More updates when we can.

Day...

Trans-Provence Day 0

In the first of a series of reports, Dave ‘Bearded Man’ Warren will be filling us in on the daily happenings at this years Trans Provence Mountain Bike Event. In it’s second...

Crank the Shield Day 2

Bearded Man gets bogged down in the quagmire on day 2 of Crank the Shield. Part 3 in our 4 part special following the Bearded Man around Crank the Shield.

Day 2: Camp...

Crank the Shield Day 1

Bearded Man manages to borrow a bike for the first stage of Crank the Shield. Part 2 in our 4 part special following the Bearded Man around Crank the Shield.

Day 1: Haliburton...

Crank the Shield 2010

We had been on the look out for someone to ride for us in this year’s Trans Provence when Paul Errington suggested the Bearded Man. BM was already signed up to ride Crank the...

Amazonia Calling

Back in May James Vybiral headed into the Amazon and now we finally have had contact. So what has he been up to all that time deep in the rainforest?
James is a visual...

Team Antarctica

In a new series of reports, we will be following a small team of scientists as they head off down to Antarctica to do some sciency type stuff. I don’t know if they will be...