Let’s start with a silly but handy admin tip. I have a month to rest and train before I fly to India for the next episode against Tired today actually so might have a couple of rest days with and first #FirstManOut post shared by Ed Stafford on at 5:52am PDT So, hoping they somehow might help you on your own solo travels, I’ve rounded up ten of the best lessons my solo adventures have taught me so far.Ĭhilly in the barn this morning (compared to Borneo!). Six years later and I seem to have carved a career out of surviving in remote places on my own. It was my first ever real experience of isolation and its effects – and it changed my life forever. Then, one daft day, I suggested to Discovery Channel that it would be a good idea to strand me naked and alone on a desert island between Fiji and Tonga for 60 days (‘Naked and Marooned’). I loved leading teams and it was always fun and sociable. Like most of us, I used to go on trips with other people – volunteering on gap year expeditions, with other soldiers in the military (formerly a British Army Captain) – I was always surrounded and supported by others. This is Ed Stafford’s Flash Pack column, written once a month from somewhere remote and halfway across the planet. Ed continues to travel and film all over the world, surviving in some of the most hostile environments on Earth, from ‘Naked and Marooned’ and ‘Left For Dead’ to his upcoming series ‘First Man Out’.

The deadly journey took two and half years and, now a Discovery Channel documentary, ignited a career in solo adventure. Hailed as “truly extraordinary” by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and billed as “ Britain’s most intrepid hero since Scott of the Antarctic“, adventurer Ed Stafford hit the record books after becoming the first man to walk the Amazon.

The Narrative Escape by Tom Stafford