I’m leaving in a few hours time with Al Humphreys for our training expedition for Iceland later this year. The plan is to walk from Mallaig on the West Coast cross country to Fort William. We will then spend a day of Ben Nevis before setting off again for the source of the River Spey. We’ve got a couple a Alpacka packrafts which we’ll inflate and then attempt to raft the entire length of the river to the North Sea. We’ve only got 10 days to get to Inverness Airport for your return flight so its going to be a bit of hoof but all good fun.
I’ll write a proper blog post with lots of photos when I get back to civilisation at the end of the month.

Im making a bit of a mess of my website at the moment while I change a few things… It will be fixed soon

In 2005, after 124 days alone at sea Olly Hicks returned to Falmouth having just set two world records: he is the first person to row solo from America to England and the youngest ever, at 23, to row an ocean.

For Olly, the Atlantic was just a testing-ground. Four months at sea lead to a lot of day dreaming about the next ‘epic’ ocean adventure – rowing around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. This ocean row would take in all the world’s oceans and was a challenge that no one had ever come close to completing let alone trying. Tenacity on the Tasman follows the build up to Olly’s Global Row and sees him set out on what an only be described as one of the gutsiest expeditions of the last 100 years.

Olly has long been a good friend and an inspiration to me. Whether its running the Marathon de Sables with a spade because of a drunken bet or rowing the Atlantic having never been in a ocean rowing boat before, he shows more balls and stamina than most of us will ever find.

Tenacity on the Tasman premieres on the 19th of November in London’s Leicester Square. Tickets are available here.