Author: Grant ‘Axe’ Rawlinson
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Rowing Home gets two new team members!
Yesterday was an exciting day for ROWING HOME with two new members joining the team. Rachel Jacklin Rawlinson and Kate Ngaire Rawlinson arrived one minute apart, twin sisters who came into this brightly lit, confusing world, very startled, with small whails and sporting more hair than their father. (Middle names chosen after the names of their grandparents –…
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New expedition launch: Rowing Home – Singapore to New Zealand by human power
Things have been a little quiet on the major expedition front for the past one year here at axeoneverest.com, but there is a very good reason for that. I have quietly been plotting away my most ambitious project yet. A human powered journey from Singapore to New Zealand, some 12,000km in length. The expedition is…
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Peak to Peak 2015 – The movie – climbing the Dragon Horns
Instead of a lengthy blog post, I created this short video of the awesome adventure we finished last week – Peak to Peak 2015 the movie – ENJOY!
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Peak to Peak is off and rolling!
We summited Bukit Timah Hill tonight to set Peak to Peak 2015 off in fine style. At 163m ASL, Singapore highest natural land point is not the toughest climb any of us have made, but this modest jungle covered hill bought back many fine memories of the hours, days, weeks and months I have spent…
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Peak to Peak 2015 – Slaying the Dragons Horns, Tioman Island, Malaysia
In 8 days time, Peak to Peak 2015 will set-off…. In 2013 Alan Silva and myself made our first Peak to Peak Odyssey from the summit of Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand to the summit of Aoraki Mt Cook, completely by human power (read more here). In 2014 we made our second Peak to Peak…
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The story of the old man who defeated two younger men
“That’s a very long way to go just to climb a rock” said my wife Stephanie over the phone as I gratefully flopped down in a seat on the ferry. “This is not just any old rock, this is the Old Man of Hoy – a 137m high ‘sea stack’ which is very famous” I replied…
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Inspiring People: Sandy Robson and the art of Spelunking and She Wee’s
For the past seven days, my wife Stephanie and I have had the pleasure of hosting a lady who is retracing the steps of a chap named Oskar Speck. Oskar happens to be this this dead German guy who in the 1930’s made perhaps one of the greatest kayaking voyages of all time. After being made…
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Inspiring People: Terence Tay – Singapore’s solo motorcycle nomad
Some of my favorite travelling experiences have been when I have been solo. Today we catch up with a very cool cat, Terence Tay to talk about his passion – solo motorcycle touring around Asia. [AXE] Hi Terence – Can you tell us about your passion for ESMT? (extreme-solo-motorcycle-touring) [TERENCE] I’m not entirely sure if…
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Sea, salt and sex pegs!!!
Happy Monday morning folks – here in Singapore we are looking forward to Chinese New Year and a shortened work week ahead. I celebrated the upcoming year of the goat (click here to read more about Chinese Zodiac signs) with a beautiful 24km paddle around an Island at the weekend – along with a friendly Singapore chap and…
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Inspiring people: Dave Field – losing weight one mile at a time
Lose weight without changing your eating plan, no expensive gym or crash diet programs and only 7 – 10 minutes of exercise per day? Possible or Impossible? To answer the question this week we catch up with fellow kiwi Dave Field for a peek at what he has been up to for the last 365+ days …
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Climbing the Chief’s Apron, Squamish
In 2014 I found myself with one day to spare in the outdoor adventurer’s paradise city of Vancouver. After some short research on google for a possible microadventure, there I was in a rental car, driving on the wrong side of the road out of town – destination Squamish. Squamish is a town around a 1…
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The world’s best tasting coffee found on the summit of Fantham’s Peak!
Once per year I return to my home province of Taranaki in New Zealand. Each visit is typically no longer than one week – but it can be a blur of meeting and catch up’s and whilst very nice to see familiar and friendly faces again after a long absence – I often wish the…
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Three climbers missing on Mt Cook – may they have the strength to weather the storm
After the terribly sad news of the QZ8501 AirAsia disaster, I was alarmed to come across more bad news last evening regarding three climbers who are reportedly missing on Aoraki/Mt Cook (click here to read more). They were reported to be climbing the Linda Glacier route to the summit of the 3754m – Aoraki/Mt Cook,…
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Inspiring People: Ria Tan – Saving Singapore’s shoreline
I have lived in Singapore for 17 years, however it was not until I bought my inflatable kayak 3 years back that I started exploring the coast. Many enjoyable kayaking trips later, I can say my eyes have been well and truly opened to the beauty of this tiny countries natural coastline! I have seen…
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Inspiring People: Andrew Glass – human power from Singapore to Pulau Tengah
Adding to the ‘Inspiring People’ section of my website – today we catch up with an adventurous Australian, Andrew Glass – a.k.a ‘Glassy’. Glassy recently had a family holiday and decided to spice it up by travelling to his Island destination completely by human power! Read more about what he did, how he did it…
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Inspiring People: Max Maximeflon, Three reasons why you should let complete strangers into your house
“Be wary of strangers”. Most of us will be familiar with having this life-lesson drummed into us since young. You only have to read the news to see shocking examples of random violence, dishonesty or sexual crimes committed by people seemingly unknown to one another. Worse still we are warned – NEVER invite a complete stranger…
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Latest news from Axe
Greetings folks, Its been a very busy time here at AxeonEverest HQ. I wanted to share with you a quick round-up of the latest news. Pre-order funding campaign target reached for my book ‘From Peak to Peak’ Yes that’s right! $5000 was the target for me to reach in the pre-order book sales campaign for…
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Speaking Promotional Video
Hi friends! Over the past 12 months I have been diligently recording several keynote presentations I have made, and edited them into one 4 minute promotional video attached below. It is designed to give you an idea of what an ‘Axe on Everest’ keynote presentation is all about. I am focusing more and more on…
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What makes a great Christmas present and only costs 25 dollars?
The answer to this riddle is a copy of my new book ‘From Peak to Peak’! I launched a pre-orders campaign 7 days ago and am very proud to say we have sold 150 copies already and are 60% towards the funding target of $5000 in pre-orders! Thank you so much to those people who…
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Buy ‘From Peak to Peak’ here!
Dear friends, You can now pre-order autographed copies of ‘From Peak to Peak’ right here at this link below. I offer a number of attractive bundles for various quantities and you can have them shipped to your address by airmail where ever you are: I also will personally AUTOGRAPH every book ordered through this campaign.…
Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson 