A small catalogue
The trip you have to show up for
Deserts, deltas, winter plateaux and routes without a useful signal.
What is ATLAS51
We don't resell what's already on the booking sites.
A short catalogue of adventure trips, each led by someone who has spent years in one corner of the map. The terrain is real, the weather does not negotiate, and there is real risk in most of them.
Adults only. A few trips at a time, each one we would take ourselves.
Trip types
Four kinds of trip
- See the expeditions →
Expedition
A first, exploratory or uncharted route.
- See the journeys →
Journey
A route that has run before and can run again.
- See the courses →
Course
Skills-led travel, taught to a stated level.
- See the by any means trips →
By any means
A crossing made by whatever moves — foot, wheels, water, whatever the place has.
The trips
Three routes worth opening
JourneyOkavango Delta, Botswana
Botswana: Kayak the Okavango
Ten days kayaking the Okavango north to south — no roads, no fences, no phone signal.
See the trip →10 days
From £3,000 GBP
ExpeditionPakaraima Mountains, Guyana
Guyana: Sky People
Fourteen days on foot into Guyana's Pakaraima Mountains, towards a summit nobody can promise.
See the trip →14 days
From £4,249 GBP
CourseFemundsmarka, Norway
Norway: The Femundsmarka
Nine days hauling a pulk across frozen Femundsmarka, learning what polar expeditions run on.
See the trip →9 days
From £2,999 GBP
Ski and pulk through frozen lakes and pine forest on the Swedish border, living the systems rather than being shown them.
Field Note · Tommy
I'm having a bit of that
One untagged photograph, the best part of a year working out what it was, and then eight days of off-piste, cat-skiing, horses in six feet of snow and a bar in an abandoned fuel tank.
Find a trip three ways
By month, by terrain, by way
By month
When you can go
Most travellers start with a month — when they can get away, when work pauses, when the family will tolerate two weeks off-grid. The catalogue is listed this way so the trip that suits the gap finds you.
By way
How it moves
Deep in Guyana's interior stands Wokomung, a lone forested tepui that we believe has never been climbed. This expedition sets out to climb it.
From the field
Botswana: Kayak the Okavango
We woke with absolutely nobody else around, listening to hundreds of birds having what sounded like a massive row.
Kyrgyzstan snow frontier
If you think that trekking through six feet of snow on horseback in the Kyrgyzstan mountains is easy, think again - but it’s also something I will never forget!
Sierra Leone: By any means
West Africa’s not polished. It’s messy, surprising, and unforgettable. The kind of trip where the stories matter more than the destination.
Who's on it
My name is Tommy and I had an incredibly boring day job…
ATLAS51 is the three of us. Tommy finds the trips: one foot in adventure travel since 2009, he knows the people who run these expeditions and makes the final call on what goes in the book. Steve has spent his career building start-ups and would rather be outside; here he builds the company around the trips. Matt has spent fifteen years in tech and digital, is happiest in a kayak, and builds the platform and tools that support the business. Around us is a small, trusted network of specialist operators and people on the ground.
Read the letter →Stories from the Field
A short letter, occasionally
New trips, operator interviews, the long view. Sent when there's something to say, not when the calendar says.
Brighton · London · further afield