The first ever abseil of the #EmpireStateBuilding is taking place in the name of Outward Bound. This is @thebigrappel, and it’s happening right now.
@JaredLeto has kicked off this incredible moment in history, descending nearly 900 feet from the spire.
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Doing the final selection for the 2024 Next Challenge Grant. I love seeing such great ideas every year but so hard to pick just a few. Results out within a week.
Done. Thanks everyone. More to come...
If you havent donated yet, please do. Just smashed through £4k - please get me closer to 5!
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Jaws... of Borrowdale with @alex_staniforth Tough as:
- it's rained a lot so it's a bit nippy
-it was a bit currenty
- we were camping up and it rained a lot
- didnt sleep or eat properly
- didnt drink properly (was hungover)
Still training for a stupid big swim #soltosil
Calling all Cumbrian kayakers!
@SingletonWayne is planning an 80-mile swim down the Cumbrian coast starting on 5 September and is in need of some boat support. Could you help?
He's a Next Challenge Grant winner, raising money for @Brathay.
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@NextChallenge@OutwardBoundUK Glad I found you Tim, love Bikepacking, going up to Ullswater September on my way back from Hebridean Way, what campsite is that? Enjoy the rest of the weekend
This week I've been commuting from a campsite.
Half term for the kids but work continued for me and this was the compromise: a campsite within cycling distance of an @OutwardBoundUK centre.
In many years of swimming in rivers and lakes I've never seen an eel...and then @NextChallenge and I have each spotted one in the last month (Borrowdale nr Kendal & in the Lune). Critically endangered but making a comeback? @cumbriawildlife
Worse ways to start the day than waking up in a tent, pedalling around Ullswater and stopping for a dip on the way.
(I'm glossing over the bit where I leave Laura to entertain three under 5s every day for a week).