Alastair Humphreys
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Alastair Humphreys is an English adventurer and author.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: University of Edinburgh; PGCE, Oxford (opens wiqqi.app)
- Round-the-world ride: August 2001 to November 2005, about 46,000 miles (74,000 km) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Expeditions: Walked across India (2009); rowed the Atlantic unsupported in 45 days (2012); crossed the Empty Quarter on foot with Leon McCarron (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The essence of adventure is to seek out what scares you and risk uncertainty and failure. (opens korrents.com)
“The essence of adventure is to seek out that which scares you and to risk uncertainty and failure.”
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Vulnerabilities you declare and embrace cease to be weaknesses. (opens korrents.com)
“Declare and embrace your vulnerabilities and they cease to be weaknesses.”
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Adventure has a strange hierarchy in which a short expedition feels less valid than a longer one. (opens korrents.com)
“There is a strange hierarchy in adventure. A short expedition somehow feels less impressive, less valid, less interesting than a longer one.”
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The essence of adventure is to seek out what scares you and risk uncertainty and failure. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Forest Unseen (opens rcmnd.app)
“The premise of The Forest Unseen is that the author is a biologist who goes out with a one meter square quadrat, which is a scientific measuring grid.”
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (opens rcmnd.app)
“I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when I was cycling through Siberia in the middle of winter 20 years ago, and it’s one of the few books that’s completely stuck with me.”
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (opens rcmnd.app)
“As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is about a young man in the 1930s who, one day in early June, walks out from the little village where he grew up.”
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The Forest Unseen (opens rcmnd.app)