You don’t have to leave the shores of the UK for adventure and discovery — it just takes a little determination and a change of perspective. Words: Alastair Humphreys
Traditionally, adventurers have tackled far-flung challenges in remote landscapes. I was no different, cycling round the world, crossing Iceland on foot and rowing across the Atlantic Ocean.
Only when I returned home did I begin to open my eyes to something I’d never noticed before: that wilderness and beauty had surrounded me all the time. You don’t need to travel halfway around the globe for gorgeous sunrises, or to marvel at starry skies from your sleeping bag. All you actually need to do is make a plan, this very weekend, to do something wherever you happen to live. To plan a microadventure.
The UK is the perfect place to evangelise about microadventures. It’s a crowded country. The mountains are small and the rivers short. In other words, if microadventures are great here, then the idea works everywhere in the world.
This story is from the Adventure January 2018: Wild ways to see the world edition of National Geographic Traveller (UK).
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