To celebrate National Geographic’s 125th anniversary and show off the new Toyota RAV4, I took my son on 125 adventures across the UK. The microadventures were accompanied by stories, photography and videos on a special microsite.
Here’s the full list of adventures:
- Ascend Snowdon
- Bag ruined castles
- Bodyboarding offshore waves
- Boulder jumping in the Peak District
- Build a woodland den
- Canoe a loop
- Cave under Wales
- Circumnavigate the centre of Titanic’s dry dock
- Climb a coastal cliff
- Climb Ben Nevis
- Climb Slieve Donard
- Collect 60 shades of green
- Collect leaf rubbings
- Crawl through an abandoned mine
- Crawl through the Cotswolds
- Create a long-bow
- Dance at a festival
- Descend into a Neolithic flint mine
- Dig for fossils
- Discover a shipwreck
- Discover Merlin’s Cave
- Downhill mountain board
- Draw puffins
- Drive the Pilgrim’s Way
- Expeditionary football
- Explore Adventures Fen
- Explore extremes
- Explore outer-space
- Explore remote places for wildlife
- Extreme snooker
- Find Britain’s 6 reptiles
- Find the Loch Ness Monster
- Fly a kite in one of the windiest places in Britain
- Follow a ghost train
- Forage for seafood
- Free run through the city
- Free a lobster
- Glide through the air
- Glide through the Tomb of Eagles
- Go on a wild-goose hunt
- Harvest honey
- Hide from Badgers
- Hideout in the woods
- Horse ride in the hills
- Hovercraft over land and water
- Hunt for weeping angels
- Husky Trek through the moors
- Image a British castle timeline
- Investigate insects
- Jump off giant steps
- Kayak through the Capital
- Launch from a runway
- Longboard down an abandoned railway
- Make a micro-museum
- Make land art
- Make our own bread
- Map animal sightings
- Meet Scotland’s Big 5
- Metal detect for treasure
- Mountain bike through Cannock Chase
- Mushroom forage
- Navigate to geocaches
- Observe mammals in the Malverns
- Off-road scooter
- Paint a landscape (with mud)
- Pan for Gold
- Patrol Hadrian’s Wall
- Photograph British Birds of Prey
- Pick Your Own adventure
- Potter in the wild
- Punt the Cam
- Quad bike trek
- Race a pigeon home
- Raft down white waters
- Rebuild a castle
- Ride tandem across a forest
- Ride the River Wye
- Roll down ancient hills
- Run across an entire city
- Run through mountains
- Sail across a flooded village
- Sail the (not so high) seas
- Scale Scafell Pike
- Scoot across Newcastle
- Scramble up scree
- Scuba dive into a hidden place
- Sea kayak with wildlife
- Search for flotsam and jetsom
- Search for Medieval graffiti
- Segway through forest
- Skip stones on the sea
- Slackline through the woods
- Sleep on a beach
- Smell the city
- Snorkel through wild waters
- Spey cast for Salmon
- Spot seal pups
- Squeeze through pot holes
- Stand behind a waterfall without getting wet
- Stand Up Paddle Board through a gorge
- Surf along the coast
- Swing across a river
- Swing through the trees
- Take a scary walk
- Taste ice creams
- Top a volcano
- Travel through Shakespeare’s time.
- Tree climb in the rainforest
- Trek a garden trail
- Trek to Britain’s highest waterfall
- Uncover hidden dragons
- Visit the 4 corners of Britain
- Wakeboard across a Loch
- Walk across quicksand
- Walk in the trees
- Walk Wark in the Dark
- Walk with predators
- Whale spot at sea
- White water tube downstream
- Wild camp in nature
- Wild swim in a waterfall
- Winter gorge walk
- X-treme pogo stick downhill
- Yacht through the sea
- Zip across an abandoned quarry