"Solo Round Scotland may be an 'amateur' adventure in its truest sense but it is as professional and daring in its execution as many a large scale international expedition". Extract from Foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE. Buy the book on Amazon In April 2006 the author became the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate Scotland by boat and bike. Setting out ...

Adventure duo pick the day to re-enact RL Stevenson’s classic book Kidnapped Modern day adventurers Alan Rankin and Willie Gibson have picked May 22nd as the date to set off on the first ever re-enactment of a Robert Louis Stevenson novel. The duo will relive the adventure classic by sailing 500 miles around Scotland then walking 260 miles across Scotland 130 years after ...

Scotsman newspaper runs page three feature on Kidnapped130. Only six weeks to go until the start.    

  Kidnapped130 Launch at Royal Overseas League Edinburgh Many thanks to the people who attended the launch of Kidnapped130 on 29th October. We heard a tremendous and knowledgeable address from Ian Nimmo who gave a reflection on Kidnapped and RL Stevenson.     Pam, Ian and Jan from Ocean Youth Trust Scotland, Stevenson Adventures and Parkinson's UK each outlined the ...

  It's now only a month before the 2015 Scottish Islands Three Peaks Race. Willie and Alan are hard in training with Strava adding an additional incentive to get out on a hill. Trade Winds will be launched in April and stripped out for the race, no extra weight at all. This will be a far cry from all the gear we have when we set off round Scotland in June 2016.

Stunning Appin Loch Linnhe shoreline where David Balfour landed only to witness the murder of Colin Campbell.

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