John Moorhouse is a retired dental implant surgeon, inveterate traveller, extreme sportsman and author of Adventures in Africa. He is married to Karen, has 2 daughters Natasha & Jessica married to Alan & Zac; 4 grandchildren Ewan, Rory, Lyle and 'Tilly; a stepdaughter Libbi & stepson Sam plus a surrogate son Sid married to Amie.

After 18 months’ hitch hiking and 10 years working in Malawi along with repeated trips to the continent to climb Toubkal and Kilimanjaro and run the Marathon des Sables, few people have John’s depth of experience of life in Africa.

A firm believer in the maxim 'Age is just a number' in 2016 at the age of 60 he became only the 37th person to climb the highest summit on each continent and ski the last degree to both poles. 

In 2019 he completed the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, just missing the Guinness world record for the oldest team of 4 to row across an ocean. 

Together with his wife Karen they have enjoyed a multitude of adventures including canoeing down the Yukon, biking off road from Cairns to Broome across the north of Australia and hiking 1,000 miles on the GR11 the length of the Pyrenees and carrying on to Santiago de Compostela on the Pilgrims trail.

Take a look at the Challenges page to see what John and Karen have been up to .....