The Best Quest

Maldague has cycled from Winnepeg, Canada, across the US border to Bemidji, Minnesota. Bemidji is the furthest upstream town on the Mississippi River according to Maldague. 33 miles away is Lake Itasca, the Mississippi headwaters where Maldague wi...(more)

Rob and Poldy are now well into the 'third' phase of their adventurous and strenuous 'ultra-triathalon', the long-distance cycling from Calais, France to Europe's northernmost point in Norway. They have been cycling long days across Belgium, Holl...(more)

Salopek has a new pack donkey to support him as he walks across India. His name is Raju and he has no ears. Any such help will make the "muzzy brown heat waves", as he calls it, of Indian summer's 104°F temperatures more bearable as he crosses Pu...(more)

In the last two weeks Butter seemed to be running marathons in several more 'unusual' African countries. In Equatorial Guinea, Butter found "zen" because he left behind all the noisy motorcycles and children running alongside, and opted instead fo...(more)

Pete Casey says he had "an issue" with one of his new indigenous Ticuna guides and had to exit the jungle via a very long river paddle. He is now in a town re-planning and searching for a new guide, but the region, if not the whole country, seems ...(more)