Wilderness

Staying motivated till the end

MOTIVATION CAN BE INSIDE, alongside or ahead, but it’s often solitary and heavy.

Mike Cosgrove will probably be having a hot shower as you read this, but when I caught up with him, he was roughly 900km across the 1200km Nullarbor Plain in Australia. Nullarbor means ‘no trees’ (nullus arbor in Latin). The Australian indigenous word for the plain is Oondiri – The Waterless. So why there?

Mike’s raising money for Gumboot Friday, an initiative that supports young people with mental health struggles. “I wanted it to be hard because I know

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