Tag : Exhibition

In 1913 a guy was plying the streets of London asking for money for a crazy idea he had. Britain was just about to go to war, we were in the middle of tough economic times and a lot of people didn’t see the point of his idea. He wanted to travel, explore and to [...]

After 3 years of research, planning and exploring a remote jungle river, the story of Finding Manchester – Lost in Bolivia opens as an exhibition at the Manchester Museum.

In line with our belief that anybody can do something like this, we have tried to create an exhibition that is inspiring and will help people believe that they could do something similar, if they want to. It is not an exhibition of expensive and beautifully framed prints, it’s not an exhibition about two people who are super-human adventurers.

“What on earth are you doing Chris?” my neighbour asked the other morning. She’d pulled over beside the bottom of my garden to scrape the ice off her rapidly freezing car windscreen. It was 7:30a.m. and –5 degrees Celsius. She was on her way to work, I was putting a jungle hammock up, complete with mosquito net.