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In this exclusive Q & A, we caught up with Merlin Evans as he completed his awe-inspiring walk across South America, a journey that spanned mountains, rain forests, deserts, and...

The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge is a 3,000-mile ocean rowing race across the Atlantic. Competitors face storms, exhaustion, isolation, and huge seas in one of the world's toughest endurance challenges.

With summer upon us, there has never been a better time to discover the joys of wild swimming. Over recent years, the sport has experienced a remarkable rise in popularity...

One of our Explorer’s last year was Colonel Percy Fawcett who disappeared in the Amazon whilst trying to find the ‘Lost City of Z’. His theory of a lost civilisation...

Our Explorer of the Month is a remarkable adventurer whose achievements remain surprisingly overlooked today. Gertrude Bell travelled further, saw more, and influenced events on a scale few explorers ever...

Our Adventurer of the Month is one of Britain's greatest aviation pioneers, a woman whose courage, determination and ambition helped redefine what was possible during the golden age of flight....

300 years after Raleigh tried to find El Dorado, Percy Fawcett set out to find a different city, a city that he called 'Z'.  Steven Spielberg & George Lucas based...