Clive Tully

Writers bio:
A temporary halt in his quest for stardom playing in a rock band in the late 1970s led to Clive Tully taking up writing for outdoors magazines, and from there, travel features for newspapers and local radio. He has travelled widely, often walking or backpacking in the world's wild places, and he has led a trek in the Himalayas for British Everest legend Doug Scott.

His natural appetite for excitement inspired him to take on more and more adventurous pursuits. He was the first journalist to fly in a hot air balloon in Russia, has travelled at over 90mph in a four-man bobsleigh down the Olympic Bob run in St Moritz, and descended to the bottom of Windermere in the English Lake District in a submersible.

An award-winning writer, photographer and broadcaster, Clive specialises in outdoors leisure and adventure travel. He has been equipment editor of four walking magazines, and correspondent for many more, including his own column in the Weekend section of the Daily Telegraph.

While Clive's stock in trade is travel features for national newspapers such as the Express, Sunday Mirror and Independent on Sunday, recent years have also seen him undertaking epic voyages on the 33ft powerboat Spirit of Cardiff / Jolly Sailor. They include the official powerboat world record from New York to Lizard Point, around the world in 2002, and across the Atlantic again in 2003. Clive Tully is the only journalist to hold 34 official world records for offshore powerboating.