EXPEDITIONS

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​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 by ski, kayak and bicycle 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 the country's highest peaks and some of the most remote communities he's encountered living among some of the world's least accessible jungle. He returned in 2023 to retrace sections of this route and climb a remote mountain.

​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 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.

​In 2012, Charlie walked 1,000 miles solo across the Gobi desert from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. This feat involved walking over six marathons a week for six weeks whilst carrying enough food and water to survive.

​Upon completing the Gobi hike, Charlie 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 2024 and 2025, Charlie returned to West Africa to cycle 4,000 miles through twelve countries. The journey provided insight into a region in a state of flux as well as how the widening spread of technology has changed the nature of travel since his first forays into Africa almost twenty years earlier.