Charlie is a specialist in long distance, non-motorised expeditions which have taken him to more than 80 countries across the world over the years
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.
In 2022 Charlie spent two months hiking 600 miles through Arctic northeast Siberia along the surfaces of frozen rivers and over the frozen Laptev Sea. He camped in temperatures down to -48ºC and spent time in remote communities of hunters and reindeer herders. Upon arrival at his final destination, Charlie was arrested and locked in a detention centre for four weeks before being deported.
In 2017, Charlie completed a world-first 5,200-mile triathlon along the perceived Europe Asia border. This expedition spanned from the midwinter snowfields of the Russian Arctic to the Bosporus in Istanbul.
Charlie's 2019 traverse of Papua New Guinea by foot and paddle took him to some of the most remote communities he's encountered living among some of the world's least accessible jungle.
In 2021 Charlie bagged a first ascent of a mountain in Kyrgyzstan's Tien Shan range. The two-week expedition scaled the crevasse-ridden Kolpokovskiy glacier in the Sarychat Ertash State Nature Reserve and located a previously unclimbed peak its head. The expedition came across wolf and snow leopard tracks and experienced temperatures down to -20˚C.
In 2012 Charlie walked 1,000 miles solo across the Gobi desert from China to Mongolia. This feat involved walking over six marathons a week for six weeks whilst carrying enough food and water to survive. Also in 2012 he trekked 600 miles across Central and Northern Mongolia in the company of only 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 finally, shortly after leaving the river, violent bouts of malaria and typhoid fever.
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.
In 2022 Charlie spent two months hiking 600 miles through Arctic northeast Siberia along the surfaces of frozen rivers and over the frozen Laptev Sea. He camped in temperatures down to -48ºC and spent time in remote communities of hunters and reindeer herders. Upon arrival at his final destination, Charlie was arrested and locked in a detention centre for four weeks before being deported.
In 2017, Charlie completed a world-first 5,200-mile triathlon along the perceived Europe Asia border. This expedition spanned from the midwinter snowfields of the Russian Arctic to the Bosporus in Istanbul.
Charlie's 2019 traverse of Papua New Guinea by foot and paddle took him to some of the most remote communities he's encountered living among some of the world's least accessible jungle.
In 2021 Charlie bagged a first ascent of a mountain in Kyrgyzstan's Tien Shan range. The two-week expedition scaled the crevasse-ridden Kolpokovskiy glacier in the Sarychat Ertash State Nature Reserve and located a previously unclimbed peak its head. The expedition came across wolf and snow leopard tracks and experienced temperatures down to -20˚C.
In 2012 Charlie walked 1,000 miles solo across the Gobi desert from China to Mongolia. This feat involved walking over six marathons a week for six weeks whilst carrying enough food and water to survive. Also in 2012 he trekked 600 miles across Central and Northern Mongolia in the company of only 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 finally, shortly after leaving the river, violent bouts of malaria and typhoid fever.