There’s an important life lesson to be learned from this short film: Adventure can be found anywhere.
Alastair Humphreys has cycled over 45,000 miles across 60 countries and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. He’s trekked across polar ice fields and African deserts. He’s an adventurer by all means — and he thrives on excitement.
But in this short film, he poses a question: What if you remove the loftiness, barriers, and intensity of adventure? What you end up with is a micro-adventure. Humphreys contends that you don’t need to be a world-class athlete with a huge gear budget to have an adventure.
“There are so many things that stop people from rowing across oceans or walking across deserts,” said Humphreys. “Perhaps the biggest one of those is the difficulty of starting, of knowing how you even get going on a project as big and daunting as that.”
The solution? Don’t make it hard: Make your adventure small and easy so that there’s no excuse.
