Since 1896, we’ve been taking curious travellers on mindful expeditions to the most remote and awe-inspiring places on the planet. Today we invite you to join us on an expedition with HX – and change the way you see the world.
To travel with HX is to open yourself to a world of awe. From cultural encounters to wildlife wonders, what you see and learn on your trip will inspire and energise you. And when you come back home, you’ll have a deeper, richer love of the planet we all share.
Jo is a former no saying, height-hating, comfort loving Business Advisor who had a change of career in her late 30s and now leads high-altitude expeditions around the globe, teaches our next generation of leaders as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme, delivers motivational talks, is a leadership coach and Everest summiteer. In early 2023 Jo took on her most rewarding job to date as Field Guide to a small conservation team for UKAHT at Damoy Point on the Antarctic Peninsula.
UKAHT is Britain's leading organisation focused on the care and conservation of historical sites and monuments on the frozen continent.
Alistair is the Director Expeditions Operations for HX. Having studied Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, he started his expedition career as a Wilderness Guide in Denali National Park in Alaska in 2001. Over the last 20 years Alastair has led over 150 expeditions, worked on 15 different ships, and explored more than 100 countries. He has spent 15 years working as an expedition leader in Alaska, the entire Pacific, and Antarctica, and has done multiple visits to the North Pole. Alastair is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and holds a private pilot’s license.
Benedict Allen
SAT
Felicity is an award-winning food and travel writer, cyclist and terrier owner. Author of The Guardian’s weekly “How to Make the Perfect…” recipe column, and seven books including two food-focussed travelogues: “Croissant for the Road” which details her 2300km cycle ride through France in search of the definite versions of classic French dishes, and “Red Sauce Brown Sauce” in which she rides the length of Britain to find the perfect fry-up. Spring 2025 sees the release of a new book about her recent epic bike journey across the USA discovering regional culinary specialities on the way.
Kate Rawles
SUN
Kate is an 'adventure plus' cyclist, riding to help raise awareness and inspire action on the most urgent environmental issues, highlighted in her first book The Carbon Cycle. In 2017/18 she rode the 8288 mile route from Colombia to Cape Horn. The ride focused on biodiversity loss and inspired her next book, The Life Cycle.
Chaz strives to explore places that people rarely venture into and explore like historical explorers used to. Having walked the Zambezi in 2016, Africa’s wildest river, he wanted to raise awareness about the huge loss of wildlife that has happened in that region. Inspired by David Attenborough, Chaz is an expedition leader, a bush craft instructor and a mountain leader.
Rebecca Lowe
SAT
In July 2015, Rebecca set off on a 10,000km solo bummel, riding through 20 countries from London to Iran. A journalist and Middle East correspondent for the Guardian, she wanted to shed some light on this long misunderstood part of the world and shared her experiences in her brilliant book The Slow Road to Tehran.
Lise Wortley
SUN
Lise is an adventurer, writer and presenter on a mission to redefine what it means to be an explorer. Following in the footsteps of intrepid female explorers of the past, her fascination with these women has taken her on expeditions all over the world for her on-going project, Woman with Altitude, and receiving widespread media attention as she goes.
Dwayne Fields
SAT
Dwayne is a polar explorer, television presenter - appearing on BBC's Countryfile and Springwatch - and most recently the 11th Chief Scout. Inspired to visit the North Pole after seeing a breakfast tv article on Ben Fogle and James Cracknell's journey there, his ambition became reality when asked to recreate the 1908–1909 expedition by Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. As well as the first Black British person to reach the North Pole, he became the second black person in the world after Henson. In 2024, he succeeded Bear Grylls as Chief Scout. His work with youth groups led him to co-found the WeTwo Foundation, which provides adventure opportunities for underprivileged young people.
Phoebe Smith
SAT
Phoebe has masterminded and undertaken hundreds of expeditions - big and small - across the world. She walked solo from the polar ice cap in Greenland to the ocean, pulled pulks to journey inside a glacier in Svalbard (last stop before the North Pole), tracked wild puma in Patagonia, navigated Myanmar's Myeik Archipelago and hiked to Everest Base Camp as part of the support team to the North East India's Expedition.
Phoebe has written several best-selling adventure books along the way including Wayfarer: Love, Loss and Life on Britain’s Ancient Paths - shortlisted as a Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024.
Hugo and Ross Turner are professional adventurers with a mission to help brands and people learn about our world through new technology and purposeful adventure.
In 2007, Hugo narrowly missed paralysis after breaking his neck in a diving accident, but that trauma pushed the brothers to follow their passion for exploration pinned on three values; purpose, discovery and always doing them together.
Ross and Hugo have since completed many expeditions together which include rowing the Atlantic Ocean, attempting to cross the Greenland ice cap and climbing Mt Elbrus. They've also gone on to reach several of the world’s poles of inaccessibility using hydrogen and electric technology.
Lyn Hughes
SAT & SUN
On Saturday, Wanderlust's Founding Editor Lyn Hughes will be joined by Wanderlust’s Diana Jarvis, Lyn Hughes, Elliot Wellsteed-Crook and Laura Field to discuss sustainability, indigenous travel and the magazine's first-ever edition of the Origin List published in the latest issue of Wanderlust.
Then on Sunday she'll return to the HX Stage to host a panel of travel experts to talk about Great Railway Adventures from around the world.
Meera Dattani
SAT & SUN
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