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The Green Kayak Challenge

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A delightful UK mini-adventure; Piotr inherits a creaky old fold-up 1960s kayak. Instead of setting fire to it, and after hearing how much happiness this kayak has brought in the past to its owners he hatched a plan. He phoned his buddy Jane and asked if she was up for a mad challenge:...

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entirely under her own steam - cycling, kayaking and rowing across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America, the Atlantic and eventually home. A year later, Sarah...

Apurimac

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the furthest sources of the Amazons to the calm water of the Peruvian jungle, six French kayakers embark upon a 17 unsupported descent on the Rio Apurimac. This is a difficult stretch of water so they all wear garish Hawaiian style shirts. With these good luck charms they set off into the...

Changing Tides

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lucy Graham and Mathilde Gordon’s passion led them to kayak 2042km down the coast of Alaska & Canada in 2018, raising awareness of marine plastic pollution. Having never completed a multi-day kayaking journey before, the three month expedition through the Inside Passage was an entirely new challenge. They completed the trip single-use plastic-free,...

Kayaking Nepal

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A border-to-border traverse of Nepal in kayaks; starting in the Himalayas on the Chinese/Tibetan border and paddling the length of the country to the Indian boundary at the Koshi Barrage. The journey was around 400km and took 8 days, with 3 days of very bumpy road travel. Hari Ale is the first Nepali to...

Voyagers Without Trace

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The first ever kayak descent of the Colorado river wasn’t by Americans. In 1938 three French paddlers made this epic 60-day journey in collapsible canvas canoes. They filmed the whole thing on colour 35mm film which until 2015 had been lost to history. Award-winning film-maker Ian McCluskey stumbled upon this story and wouldn’t...