Over the years, I’ve had people say to me you learn a lot from the mountains. They teach you perseverance, resilience, adversity, to think outside the square and plans A, B, C, D and the rest. All relevant in today’s global settings with the COVID-19 situation when your plans go out the window. A bit […]
Mental Toughness
One Big Adventure
Turns out now, we’re all on one big adventure together. By some strange coincidence the challenge of navigating your way through a global pandemic has remarkable similarities to going on an adventure. We can apply some of the strategies we use on a ‘normal’ adventure, like trekking, to help us succeed on this one. Firstly, […]
TREK READY: Mental Toughness
How to build mental toughness for your next trek – use this self-assessment and action plan to help get you there. This is PART 3 of the 3-part TREK READY series, based on our TREK READY TEST – either do the test to get a score, or simply follow the questions below. For a printable […]
12 Tips To Build Mental Toughness For Your Next Trek
If you’re going out into the mountains or the wilderness on a long-distance trek then you’ll need to mentally prepare and build your mental toughness. They say that 80% of meeting a challenge is mental and only 20% is physical. While there is plenty written about physical training for a trek, I’ve never managed to […]
Nepal: Mera Peak – adversity and resilience
Mera Peak Mountaineering Expedition, Nepal (6,476m). Handling adversity and resilience when things don’t go according to plan. They say don’t sweat the small stuff – well, I should have reminded myself of that! Sometimes we forget that being mentally prepared for an expedition is just as important as the physical. We thought we had prepared […]