It all started with The Geography Collective in 2008, and Mission:Explore is about to be released into the wild:

“For all our sakes we need more children falling off branches, getting lost in forests and getting stuck inside trees. The message is simple; it is more risky not to go into the woods. It is dangerous for not only the health of the individual but the world.

Recently the media has been wrapped up in a blanket of stories about cotton-wool kids.”

This was the beginning of a fascinating blog post on the Stanfords Bookstore website, written by Daniel Raven-Ellison of The Geography Collective. You can read the entire blog here: http://www.stanfords.co.uk/articles/blog/the-geography-collective-get-lost-kids,229,AR.html

And please pre-order your copy/ies of MIssion:Explore off these pages as well. For every two you buy a third copy WILL be donated to kids who can’t afford their own copy.

Serial adventurer and Eye Books author Alastair Humphreys embarked upon the Three Peak Challenge with Help for Heroes veteran Major Phil Packer and BBC Presenter, Kate Silverton. Keep an eye out for them on the Sport Relief coverage this weekend on the BBC.

And you can read the first 90 pages of Alastair’s Mood of Future Joys online with this Eye Books online eBook:

We hope that you enjoyed the video of Georgie out on the Guerilla Geographer warpath. As a result of Georgie’s efforts and all of the good folk at The Geography Collective and The Workshop we are delighted to announce that we won a Geovation Award from the Ordnance Survey for our forthcoming MISSION:EXPLORE iPhone app. We’ll keep you posted for new developments.

Prototype screens for MISSION:EXPLORE iPhone app.