For many people considering taking on a challenge, whether for charity or for themselves, something has ended or is about to end. There is a shift. A chapter has closed or loosened. A career that shaped you for decades, or a relationship that has defined your days. Children who needed you in ways that they no longer do. Partnerships, responsibilities, identities. Just a time in life.
It is easier to think that you have lost your way or fallen behind, but we see it as you standing at a threshold. This is the beginning, where a new chapter gathers its outline.
What you long for.
You want a journey with a beginning that you step into and an end that leaves you different from when you started. A journey where your body carries you from one place to another, and the distance does its quiet work inside you too.
This renewal is not found in a spa. It is found on roads that rise and fall, in mountain air, in rainforest breath, and in desert quiet. It is where the physical effort does what thinking cannot — movement opens space and gently strips away the noise until what matters returns to the surface. Long days that clear the mind. Steady effort that frees what the heart has been holding.
What holds you back.
But do you ask yourself: what happens if renewal does not come? What if you walk or cycle the miles and feel exactly as you do now?
There is the weight of the initial commitment. Time. Money. Fitness. Will people understand why you need this? Whether spending this on yourself is allowed when there are other demands.
You may wonder whether this kind of challenge is for others — stronger people, freer, with fewer responsibilities.
You have been waiting for confidence to arrive before you commit.
But we have been doing this for over twenty-five years. We have been there and we can tell you categorically: confidence follows commitment.
The turning.
There is a time — quiet, private — where hesitation turns into movement. Too strong a phrase to say certainty. Too brave to say fearlessness. Just the decision to step forward anyway, because crossing matters more than staying still.
This can be that moment.
What this journey gives you.
You will wake in places that do not know your history. You will put your body to work on roads and paths that explain nothing, but ask for everything. You will be tired in ways that have nothing to do with the tiredness you have carried at home.
Somewhere along the route, something long-held begins to lift. The body works and the internal chatter begins to rest.
You will cross a country, a desert or a ridge. You will finish somewhere different from where you started. You will not be reinvented. You will be recovered. The people who know you will see it, even if they cannot name it. You will be more yourself than you have been in years.
Your pathways.
Distance that feels like passage. Effort that clears the head. A geography that mirrors what is shifting inside, and landscape that holds you while it does. We chose these four with that in mind.
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Cycle Costa Rica – Exclusive Discount: Save £175pp
Cross a country. Prove what your body remembers.
Caribbean sunrise. Pacific dusk. Twelve days through rainforest, volcanic highlands, and warm coastal wind. The effort is real — long days that empty the head and steady the breath. The landscape holds you while you cross it. One ocean behind. Another ahead. A geography that mirrors what is shifting inside.
This route is for you if: You want a crossing you feel in your body. A line drawn across land and life.
Cycle Jordan — The Desert Pathway
Nothing unnecessary survives the desert. Neither will you.
Dead Sea to Aqaba. Eight days through wide light and deep silence. The effort strips away what does not matter. The desert holds you — sparse, open, indifferent to everything except what is essential. Petra rising from red rock. Nights under open sky.
This route is for you if: Space matters more than spectacle. You want the landscape to do some of the work.
Trek Jordan — The Slower Crossing
Walk until the desert has taken everything unnecessary.
The same land, one step at a time. Dana Biosphere. Wadi Rum. Bedouin paths worn smooth by centuries. The pace allows the effort to clear your head gradually. The desert holds you while something settles. Time for breath. Time for thought.
This route is for you if: Walking suits you better than wheels. Steady rhythm is part of how you heal.
Trek the Sleeping Buddha — Save £100pp
Some ridges change you quietly.
This crossing is vertical. You climb to where four of the highest mountains on earth rise together. Morning light on the Sleeping Buddha. The effort is the ascent — thin air, steady legs, the slow work of gaining height. The landscape holds you at the top. Perspective arrives through altitude.
This route is for you if: Stillness calls louder than passage. Clarity comes through height.
Women V Cancer: Kilimanjaro to Coast – Save £100pp
A physical crossing from the mountain to the sea.
Start at the foot of Africa’s highest mountain and ride until you reach the ocean. The route is a literal passage across Tanzania. The red earth and the heat demand a steady rhythm as you cover the distance. By the time you reach the coast, you are worlds away from where you started. A significant crossing, ridden alongside women, all moving in the same direction, for the same cause.
The perfect challenges if you are ready for a clear physical and emotional beginning and end.
