Category: Peak to Peak 2014
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Peak to Peak 2014 – the movie is here!
Enjoy the movie of Peak to Peak 2014 – travel from the summit of Ben Nevis, over 2000km by human power all the way to the summit of France – Mt Blanc at 4800m, all from the comfort of your computer!
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Peak to Peak 2014 – Ben Nevis to Mt Blanc – Trip report with images
Ben Nevis to Mt Blanc – by human power From the summit of the highest point in the UK, to the summit of the highest point in France. That was the plan that Alan Silva and I had and we attempted this mission in a similar style as the previous years highly successful Peak to…
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Peak to Peak 2014 – Ben Nevis to Mount Blanc by human power is complete!
Together with Alan Silva we took the final steps to the summit of Mt Blanc at 1130hrs, Monday 9 September, 2014 to finish Peak to Peak in 21 days, 19 hours after departing from the summit of Ben Nevis in Scotland. We travelled over 1900km, completely under our own human power (apart from that frustrating…
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Day 18 – Four days to Chamonix!
Hello from France, We are now in day 18 of Peak to Peak 2014 and have travelled over 1500km all the way from the summit of Ben Nevis completely(apart from that small part of the french shipping channel) under our own steam. After 17 days non-stop with no rest days, I am…
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The ANZACS have landed!
Alan and I touched the sandy beach at Boulogne Harbour this evening at 5:30pm, almost exactly six hours after leaving Dungeness beach in England at 11:30 am. We paddled for 3.5 hours to the centre of the channel and through the english shipping lanes, then much to our dissapointment had to exit the kayaks and…
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The ANZACS have landed!
Alan and I touched the sandy beach at Boulogne Harbour this evening at 5:30pm, almost exactly six hours after leaving Dungeness beach in England at 11:30 am. We paddled for 3.5 hours to the centre of the channel and through the english shipping lanes, then much to our dissapointment had to exit the kayaks and…
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Its Channel time
Greetings from very wet and cold south coast of England. Alan and I arrived yesterday in Rye Harbour and are in position to attempt our kayak across the English channel tomorrow at 11:30AM. But first a quick wrap up of the last 5 days since the last blog. Day 6 saw us travel from Carlisle…
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Hello England!
We have arrived in England! Day Five of Peak to Peak 2014 is over and we have now travelled over 330 km from the summit of Ben Nevis, south towards Mt Blanc, completely under our own steam. Continuing from the last blog, day two saw us overnight in the small village of Tyndrum. We are…
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Peak to Peak is off and drowning!
Well we have successfully began Peak to Peak 2014. Yesterday morning we drove 4.5 hours over from Aberdeen to Fort William and owing to a diabolical weather forecast, realised that that very afternoon was the best opportunity of the next few days to climb Ben Nevis. So we set-off at 1230pm over and up the…
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Peak to Peak 2014 – Summit of the UK to the summit of France by our own human power!
I enjoyed Peak to Peak 2013 so much (the first ever human-powered traverse from the summit of Mt Ruapehu to the summit of Mt Cook in New Zealand) that it inspired me to do two things: 1) Write a book about the trip – this is currently undergoing the last round of editing and will…
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Peak to Peak 2014 – adventure beckons!
Morning folks! Based on our success with Peak to Peak 2013 in New Zealand, where we became the first people to ever make a continuous human powered journey from the summit of Mt Ruapehu to the summit of Aoraki Mt Cook, we have decided to push the ‘Peak to Peak’ concept one step further. Our…
Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson 