💾KAYAK RESCUE: I’ve recently shot a TV series for Red Bull where I interview world class athletes in their backyards. While shooting some introductory shots from a friendly white-water river in France, I end up getting rescued by the athlete (Nouria Newman) I was there to interview. Long story short, it all went swimmingly until I missed my roll and took a swim in a very cold river. Nouria does a brilliant job of mopping up. It’s a series of bad decisions followed by a seri

💾SUPERHUMAN: A company that makes exoskeletons reached out and asked if I’d be interested in wearing their devices on an outdoor mission. Sure, I said, as long as I can do my own kind of mission in my own kind of way. So, I decided to stock a remote mountain hut with beans, given I like beans, and I like mountain huts- and have used them in the past as refuge. To get there I decided to go down, then up, one of the longest spurs in Australia- the perfect terrain to test out a set

💾THE FRENCH COMMUTE: I’ve been self-employed for five years since losing my university job. When Red Bull reached out and asked if I wanted to host a TV show interviewing athletes in far flung corners of the world I said ‘No worries…and I tell you what, I’ll commute to each shoot in my own Beauish way.’ So here I am, doing that very thing. First up, I rented a town bike from Geneva train station and rode to the middle of the French Alps where I interviewe

💾NO SURRENDER: I was invited to run across Timor Leste, which is one of Australia’s closest neighbours- to our North. It’s a small and slender country that’s been at war, on and off, for 500 years. With ten other runners from all over the world, and with a mix of local and Aussie guides, we ran 100km over 5000m of dusty, steep, coffee-laden country. We dossed down each night in guest houses or tents, ate whatever the locals had on offer and settled into life on the t

💾I came upon a trailer load of dumped rubbish in the bush and decided to make something with it.

💾THE YOUTUBE FOREST: The idea for this film was super simple: make a video that says ‘all money from this video will go to planting trees’, then take that money- as promised, and plant trees. This film is the follow up film where the money has been raised and the trees get planted. A bunch of people, most of which I’ve never met, plant a bunch of trees. It is, I have to say, a super satisfying project- turning my YouTube audience into a force for good. -- Produced

💾An old house at Outward Bound in Canberra was being demolished so I decided to get out as much wood as possible before the excavator had its way with it.

💾Four years ago I planted a tree a minute for 24 hours- 1440 trees. It was hard graft, but an exceptional day. This is what it looks like four years later. I lit a fire, sat in the shade, and had the one of the best cuppas I've ever had.

💾THE ROLL: There comes a time in life when you realise you aren't as good at things anymore. It’s about the same time in life when you get new friends, not because your old friends aren't great, but because they've got families, or live at the beach. It’s a confusing time of life because you still think you’re ok at things, and you still think your old friends want to hang out, but neither of them seem to be entirely true. So, you hang out with some new people, and lo

💾Based on a Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Newman try and exploit the bottle deposit scheme, I attempted to do the same thing in Australia.

💾Myself and friend Jimma turned the cash from 10,000 redeemables into a roadside plantation.