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    Wild Nights: Camping Britain's Extremes

    By Phoebe Smith

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    It's not until we push ourselves past our perceived limits, till we feel so cold and so tired that we feel we can't go on any further, that we discover what we are truly capable of. . . Britain's most famous wild camper and bestselling author of Extreme Sleeps, Phoebe Smith, is back. After bivvying under boulders and camping in caves on her last tent-bound adventure, she's decided to hit the UK's wild places once again, but this time take it further. Determined to discover what defines a truly "extreme" night out, and see if she has the guts to do it, she heads to the extremities of the country. Battling whiteouts in Wales, facing monster waves in Suffolk, and attempting to make camp in gale-force winds on Britain's highest mountain, Phoebe takes us on a series of inspirational expeditions into the wilderness as she quests to find the ultimate pitch.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale
    Release dateAug 1, 2015
    ISBN9781783724802
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    Wild Nights: Camping Britain's Extremes
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    Phoebe Smith

    By day Phoebe Smith is an award-winning travel writer, broadcaster and presenter as well as Editor-at-Large of Wanderlust travel magazine and Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence at calm.com where she writes scripts for the likes of Stephen Fry, Joanne Lumley and Danai Gurira. By night she’s an extreme-sleeping outdoors adventurer who thrives on heading to the wildest locations she can find in order to sleep in the strangest places she can seek out. Phoebe was the first person to sleep at all the extreme points of mainland Britain – including the centremost location – which she did solo, on consecutive nights in 2014. In December 2017 she gave up her Christmas to complete the self-devised Sleep the Three Peaks challenge – in which she overnighted on the summits of the highest mountains in Wales, England and Scotland – raising both money and awareness for Centrepoint (the young people’s homeless charity). Phoebe is the author of 10 books including the bestselling Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper, Wilderness Weekends: Wild Adventures in Britain's Rugged Corners and the first guidebook to Britain’s free-to-stay mountain shelters, Book of the Bothy. Phoebe has proudly been an Ordnance Survey #GetOutside Champion since 2016 in recognition of her work encouraging people to enjoy the great outdoors. She is ambassador for the annual Big Canopy Campout (which helps raise funds for the World Land Trust), as well as Wild Night Out, the UK’s national night of adventure. She is also President of the Long Distance Walkers Association. Phoebe’s ongoing mission is to prove that Britain offers adventure to rival anything you’ll find overseas and that you don’t need to be a beard-sporting, rufty-tufty, I’ll-eat-a-dead-sheep-carcass Bear Grylls-type to have an adventure!

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    • 3/5
      Following on from her first camping book Phoebe Smith is determined to push herself even more. Setting herself three sets of challenges, Wild Nights, Three Peaks Sleeps and Extreme Sleeps, she ventures into the highest, lowest, furthest north, south east and west points in the UK.

      On these trips she has to cope with freezing conditions, whiteouts, gales force winds on the highest points, wading through rivers and evading CCTV whilst urban camping. Written in her chatty style, it isn’t a bad book overall and a good counterpart to her first book.