English, Solitaire, Cowboy, Cuckoo. . .

In pioneering Eddie-The-Eagle style, I overcame childhood illness, climbing Birmingham's post-war bombsites, to build lifelong resilience to endure alone in often wild and perilous environments.

Ride with me on my adapted motorbike as I tackle serious winter climbing in Snowdonia (featuring a miraculous, split-second rescue), the Lake District (getting hopelessly lost), and the Ben Nevis massif (with a Hogmanay Party on summit). Then brave a classic 1970s Brit-abroad road trip to the French Alps – scaling icy Mont Blanc rock unroped, wearing a yellow crash helmet, and using nine-inch nails inside glaciers!

Join me in my self-converted truck as I travel to North Africa, walk across the Sahara Desert to swim in the Atlantic, and climb the tallest mountain in Morocco's High Atlas in unexpected snow! Share my epic driving escapade to the High Arctic's winter wilderness: barely surviving Scandinavia's three highest peaks in Finland, Sweden, and Norway, and crawling frozen back to my lorry!

Now a retired handyman and author, I enjoy my lorry-home lifestyle in a pretty Snowdonia town, while promoting more leisurely mountaineering, potholing, and sailing for older folk!