The PaddlerUK magazine July 2015 issue 3 | Page 18

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PROJECT 24
Project 24 is a series of 24-hour human powered micro adventures on foot,
paddling, and cycling to challenge ourselves and our potential. Project 24 is
the brainchild of husband and wife team,Ashley Kenlock and Richard
Harpham to provide an opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors with
regular adventures.We hope it is aspirational to encourage others to
participate and challenge themselves and ask big questions.
By Richard Harpham
Richard is a professional adventurer who has
completed over 7,800 miles of adventures
around the world. Our family and friends will
hopefully also join us on different challenges for
encouragement, fun times and to share the
experience. You can follow Project 24 as we
tackle some of Britain’s most iconic locations at
www.richadventure.com.
Our first 24-hour challenge was walking for 24
hours on the beautiful Pennine Way, in winter
with deep snow, freezing conditions and
whiteout blizzards. Our second was…

24 hours canoeing on the
River Great Ouse
The adventure was to canoe the River Great
Ouse, upstream of Buckingham down towards
our home in Bedford. Despite being the fifth
largest river in Britain, 50% of it does not have
access rights (we can only access 3% of the
rivers and water in England and Wales – see
www.riveraccess.org.uk). For me personally
I was really excited to be exploring the top
section of our river (non-navigable) having lived
in Bedford for a large part of my life. Previously I
had paddled the 78 miles downstream of
Bedford to the Wash in Norfolk and we also run
a canoe, kayak and SUP business located on this
part of the River. www.canoetrail.co.uk
The canoe challenge was in the close fishing
season.