Hibernation and motivation
CORONAVIRUS TRAVEL UPDATE - AUGUST 2020 The ongoing global impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) is severely impacting both national and international travel. Best Life Adventures have now postponed all international expeditions until the end of 2020 and we will have to...
The Adventurepreneur’s Guide to a Happy Life
After years of meeting happy people who've shared their secret of what gives them their smiles, it was about time I decanted them all into a series of life lessons that are easy to implement and in the most part, free apart from the time you need to invest in making...
Interview with Repeat Venturer Anna Harrison
Anna Harrison is a true entrepreneur, innovative thinker and a tough little nugget. She is the face behind the frozen hair photo you may have seen on our Instagram feed when she joined us on the Extreme Dreams Tri-Nation Arctic Challenge in 2020, and for Venturer...
Extreme Dreams: Arctic Tri-Nation Challenge – Photo Blog
Mission complete for our 2020 Arctic Tri-Nation Challenge. Eight days of Arctic wilderness adventure by snowshoe, dogsled and kayak. Mentally challenging, physically gruelling, culturally exciting. Here's what went down on the frozen tundra between Norway, Finland and...
2020 – MY ADVENTURE RESOLUTION
IN 2020....MAKE SHIT HAPPEN As the year draws to a close, my mind is full of dreams for 2020 and beyond. It feels like every lap of the sun Planet Earth takes gets faster and faster and the months just fly by. Ensuring I turn these dreams into reality is an...
Riding the World’s Highest Road
In 2019, we took two crews of crazy adventurers on two completely different expeditions across three of the highest and most beautiful roads in the world, traversing Khardung La, the highest pass of them all at 5380m above sea level. From the verdant pine-clad hills...
AFRICA – WHERE I BECAME THE REAL ME
Africa. It’s where I became the real me. Simply the most exciting, engaging, challenging continent on the planet, bar none. It’s where I’ve seen the purest smiles, the most awe-inspiring wildlife, and felt closest to being a real explorer. My fascination and addiction...
EXTREME DREAMS UNDER THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
It was the moment I screamed to myself wrapped in five layers of seriously insulated storm proof clothing as the wind hurled horizontal snow into my ski goggles, with only a narrow beam of light from my headtorch striking the frozen tundra below my feet, that I...
RIDE WITH THE GODS – THE HIGHEST MOTORABLE ROAD IN THE WORLD
Think of the ‘Great Road Trips of the World’ and Route 66 across the USA, the Great Ocean Road in Australia and the Southern Alps in New Zealand all spring to mind. They may be surrounded by jaw-droppingly beautiful scenery but at the same time are pretty damn tame,...
INTERVIEW with World Record Holder Eleanor Carey
Eleanor came into our lives during our very first Venturer Program, when we enjoyed a relatively relaxing kayaking safari around the Whitsunday Islands. Little did Eleanor know, barely a year later, she'd be rowing 4000km across the Pacific Ocean with two complete...