100+ adventure ideas to get inspired

Most of my adventure ideas come from one source….other people. Nothing gets my mind brewing more than reading, watching and following others on their adventure. It’s FOMO of the good kind!

I wanted to put together this post listing over 100 adventures that have been undertaken – big and small, far and wide. I hope it will inspire you when thinking up your next adventure.

I’m constantly updating this list, so drop me a line once you’re past the finish line of your adventure and I’ll add you!

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Before we start….

If you are new to this blog, I’m Bex Band – a full-time UK adventurer and founder of the women’s adventure community, Love Her Wild. I’m on a mission to make getting outdoors and going on adventures as easy as possible. You can read more about me here.

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100+ adventure ideas

1. Tom Allen:  Cycled Lands End to John o Grants without spending a penny 
2. Tim Moss: Travelled around the world in 80 ways 
3. Laura Kennington: Did a Channel Island Triathlon
4. Maria Leijerstam: Became the first person in the world to cycle from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole
5. Levison Wood: Walked the length of the Nile
6. Elise Downing: Completed a 5000 mile run around the UK coastline
7. Lois Pryce: Motorcycled across the Americas, Africa, Brazil and Iran 
8. Coxless Crew: First all female group to row the Pacific Ocean
9. Kate Leeming: Trans-siberian cycle expedition
10. David Rock and friends: ‘kidnapped’ a London hire bike and attempted to cycle in back from Cardiff in a day
11. Anna Mcnuff: Ran the full length of New Zealand
12. Emily Conrad-Pickles & James Davis: Cycled from London to Cape Town
13. Family on Bikes: Family of 4 cycled across the Americas
14. Emmy Collett: When diagnosed with terminal cancer, she took on an adventure cycling 2000km across Europe 
15. Dave Cornthwaite: Skateboarded across Australia
16. Helen Neville: 55 year old who ran across america
17. Susie Pike: Cycled 5000km across Australia
18. Leon McCarron: Walked 1000miles across the Middle East
19. Laura Maisey: Ran home from Rome
20. Sarah Outen: travled London to London cycling and rowing
21. The Turner Twins: Undertake challenges comparing the performance of old and new technology
22. Steve Dew-Jones: Hitchhiked from Argentina to Alaska
23. Duncan Dyason: Walked 30 marathons in 30 days across Central America
24. George Mahood: Travelled the full length of the UK with no money or gear (he started in just a pair of boxers!). 
25. Justine Gosling: Combined history and adventure cycling and walking along the line of the Iron Curtain
26. Jamie McDonald: the first person to run 5000 miles from the Atlantic coast of Canada to the Pacific coast (dressed as a superhero)
27. The Slow Travel Girls: A trans-Atlantic duo who set off on their first, slow, long-distance journey
28. Alastair Humphreys: Cycled around the world
29. Carmen Braun: 100 nights camping in a year
30. Rosie Stancer: Went to the North pole solo
31. Rosie Swale-Pope: When her husband passed away she took on a challenge to ran solo around the world 
32. Dylan Haskins: Cycled around Costa Rica by Beach Cruiser
33. Jenny Tough: Ran across Kyrgyzstan
34. George & Jaxson: 2 teenagers who walked crossed Stradbroke Island
35. Helen Lloyd: 25,000km cycling through Africa 
36. Tom Day: Hitchhiked to Singapore
37. Sean Conway: Completed the worlds longest triathlon, 4200 miles around the coast of the UK
38. Louis-Philippe Loncke: Completed multiple long treks and kayaking expeditions
39. Zoe: Ticking off a bucket list of adventures
40. Kate: Climbed Kilimanjaro amongst other adventures
41. The Meek Family: Left their jobs and school to take on a bucket list of adventures
42. Roge Luque: Cycled from Cambridge to Oslo
43. Mark Kalch: Paddling the longest river on every continent
44. Nic Connor: Once cycled to Japan on £1000
45. Matthew and Sarah: Travelled from Prague to Berlin in a Pedalo
46. Amy Elisabeth Ennis: Ran the North Pole marathon
47. James Forrest: Walked the 214 Wainwrights in the Lake District
48. Paul Huckleberry Everitt: Built a traditional timber log raft to go down the Mississippi River
49. Olie Hunter Smart: Walked and kayaked the length of the Amazon, over 4,000 miles in 4.5 months
50. Charlie Knight: Walked from Mexico to Canada
51. Alex K-m: Ran from the North of Europe to the South
52. Matt Bailey: Visiting all 962 UNESCO world heritage sites in the world
53. James Greig: Cycled 100 miles to hand deliver the first t-shirt a customer bought
54. Graham Huges: Was the first person to visit every country in the world without flying
55. Rogue Priest: Travel from the US to South America without the aid of an engine
56. Karen Darke: Hand cycled across Japan
57. Turner: Travelling around the world in 80 jobs
58. Lucy Barnard: Walking the length of the world
59. Tim Platton: Running 1000 miles in a year
60. Scott Butler: Rowed From Burgas in Bulgaria to Batumi in Georgia across the Black Sea 
61. Shilpika Gautam: First ever stand up paddle board descent of the river Ganges 
62. Miles Hilton-Barber: Completed a 55 day, 13,000mile microlight adventure – and happens to be blind!
63. Belinda Kirk: Walked across Nicaragua
64. Hannah Engelkamp: Trekked 1000 miles around Wales with a donkey named Chico
65. Emma TImmis: Roller-skated across the Netherlands in seven days
66. Antonia and Jo: Travelled from Bangkok to Brighton in a pink Tuk Tuk
67. Leigh, Paul and Johno: Drove across the world in a London taxi
68. Russel Smith: Travelled the length of Britain on a kick scooter
69. Chris Evans and Ant Sed: Clocked up 5000km of endurance races in a year
70. Howard James: Swam the English channel at night
71. Matt Prior: Rode 2000km on a WW2 motor bike across Siberia in winter
72. Felicity Ashton: First woman to solo ski across the Antarctic
73. Colin and Julie Angus: Travelled around the world on human power
74. Tim Millikin: Cycling from Reading in the UK to Reading in USA 
75. Jason Lewis: A human-powered circumnavigation of the world
76. Rob Gauntlett and James Hooper: Completing a 22,000-mile journey from the magnetic North to the magnetic South Poles
77. Matthew Karsten: Hitchhiked across America
78. Scott Thompson: Travelled the longest journey by rickshaw
79. Ed Stafford: Walked the Amazon
80. Alex Flynn: When diagnosed with Parkinson’s, took on a 10million metre challenge
81. Arry Beresford-webb: First person to run the perimeter around Wales
82. Natalia Spencer: Hiked 6,000 miles of the UK coast in memory of her young daughter
83. Monisha Rahesh: Around the world in 80 trains 
84. Klara Harden: Spent 1 month solo in the Iceland wilderness
85. Ash Dykes: Solo unsupported trek across Mongolia
86. Megan Lewis: Rode horseback from Beijing to London 
87. Eleanor Moseman: 15,000 mile cycle through Asia  
88. Roz Savage: First woman ever to row solo across three oceans 
89. Rob Thomson: Riding a skateboard around the world  
90. Ness Knight: Cycling across Bolivia with no money
91. Peycho and Henrik: Built a bamboo raft and sailed down the Amazon river 
92. Joff Summerfield: Riding around the world for a second time on a penny-farthing  
93. Lars Simonsen: Kayak adventure from Copenhagen to Istanbul
94. Addis and Athena: Mother and daughter kayaked 130 miles down the Leeds and Liverpool canal 
95. Phoebe Smith: Travels around Britain finding extreme places to sleep 
96. Fiona Quinn: Did source to sea on the river Cam, 3 times with 3 modes of transport 
97. Kristoffer Glestad: Spent 6 months alone in the wilderness  
98. Amanda McDonnall: Running across the Channel Islands 
99. Tim Brayshaw: 24 twenty four hour challenges  
100. Stephen Brassett: Walking New Zealand pulling a sleeping trailer 
101. Philippa Cox: Cycled the length of Europe
102. Lucja Leonard and Marina Ranger: Ran 500km the length of Holland in their underwear
103. Ian Finch: canoed the length of the Yukon river
104. Walk for Aoife: travelled 400 miles from Manchester to Dingle, including kayaking the Irish Sea, for his sister
105. Jacki Hill: recreates the journeys of early female explorers
106. Kate Rawles: Cycling from Columbia to Cape Horn on a self-built bamboo bike
107. Kerry-Anne Mairs: 5 nights, 5 bothies with a 5-year-old
108. Richard Walks London: became the first person to circumnavigate the M25 motorway non-stop on foot  
109. Yorkshire Rows: 4 mums rowing across the Atlantic
110. Kristina Paltén: ran 1144 miles across Iran on her own
111. Nikki Misurelli: travelled solo around the world on a motorbike
112. Katy MacMillan-Scott: walking 2,500miles in memory of her best friend from Rotterdam to Istanbul over a number of years
113. Faye Shepherd: cycled the length of new Zealand
114. Newall Hunter: first scot to complete the ‘adventurers grand slam’
115. Lindsey Cole: walked 1,600km through the remote Western Australian bush, following the rabbit-proof fence
116. Jonny Wolf: completed 3800km solo cycle across South America
117. Lucy Shepherd – reenact the famous operation Grouse mission in  WW2 
118. Amy Tunstall – cycling tour across Canada
119. Draglo –  Matt and Sam tackling British rivers on a dragon-shaped pedalo
120. Ed Hunt: Bristol to Brisbane on a bike 
121. Pretenniless – Lily and Sarah travelled to every state without spending a penny

Have any other adventure ideas or know any inspiring adventures I’ve missed out? Let me know if the comments box below.

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