I stumbled across Alistair Humphreys' website last week and have since read his first ebook and have started the second. Both are free to download from his website. His first two books are about his 4 year journey cycling around the world (Dad you would enjoy his first particularly, this is about his ride through Africa). I found the first fascinating as he describes the experience exactly how I would expect it would be - at times so excrutiating and impossible and within a few sentences the realisation that he is having this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime experience.
He seems to be addicted to adventure, unusual travels and testing his limits.
Direct from his website ---
"Alastair’s quest for adventure began young. Aged 8, he completed the 26 mile Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge and the National 3 Peaks in 24 hours aged 13. At 14 he cycled off-road across England. After leaving school Alastair taught for a year in South Africa.
Whilst at university (Edinburgh and Oxford) Alastair cycled from Pakistan to China, Land’s End to John O’Groats, Turkey to Italy, Mexico to Panama and across South America. He ran a charity project in the Philippines and the London marathon dressed as a rhino.
Since graduating Alastair has cycled round the world for 4 years, raced a yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, canoed 500 miles down the Yukon River and walked the length of the holy Kaveri river in India."
Very inspiring. You can find him here - http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/
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