Charlie is a British explorer, writer, photographer and motivational speaker. He specialises in long distance, human-powered expeditions and has travelled over 50,000 miles by bicycle, foot, horse, ski, kayak and dugout canoe. His work has featured in a range of publications including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Express, The Guardian, Wanderlust, Travelmag, Sidetracked magazine and BBC World Service. His writing was also selected for inclusion in the book ‘The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century’.
Charlie’s longest expedition was a 43,000-mile bicycle journey reaching the furthest cape in each of Europe, Asia and Africa before returning home. On this journey he traversed 60 countries, encountering extremes of weather, remoteness and physical exhaustion during the four and a half years he was away. The twists and turns of this journey presented him with challenges he had never dreamed of facing but, through introspection and perseverance, he overcame them and completed the journey.
In 2012 Charlie walked 1,000 miles solo across the Gobi desert from China to Mongolia. This feat involved walking daily marathons for six weeks whilst carrying enough food and water to survive. He subsequently trekked 600 miles across Mongolia in the company of a semi-feral pony and a stray dog he found in the forest.
In 2014 Charlie descended the Lulua, a little-known tributary of the Congo River, in a leaky dugout canoe. This journey into remote and effectively uncharted territory of DRC was beset by rapids, waterfalls, hippos, crocodiles and violent bouts of malaria and typhoid fever. In 2017, Charlie undertook an eight-month, 5,000-mile triathlon tracing the perceived Europe-Asia border in order to investigate the relevance of this line in the modern world.
In 2019 he competed a crossing of Papua New Guinea by foot and raft, summiting the country's two highest mountains and descending its longest river. Along the way, in the Highlands region, he spent time with some of the world's most isolated communities.
Charlie’s talks inspire audiences to challenge themselves in all aspects of life by identifying their passions, setting ambitious targets and striving towards them. Keen to share lessons learned from the wilderness, Charlie’s talks incorporate numerous themes including perseverance, goal-setting, positive failure, leadership, teamwork, resilience and dealing with risk.
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