Leon McCarron

Adventurer, Filmmaker, Chancer.

Films, books and stories from long-distance human-powered explorations.

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Leon McCarron is a Northern Irish adventurer and filmmaker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and specialises in long distance, human-powered expeditions.

Leon's first book - The Road Headed West - about his bicycle journey across North America was released in July 2014. It is now an Amazon Top 10 Bestseller.

At the end of 2012 Leon crossed 1000 miles of the Empty Quarter desert, roughly following the route of explorer Wilfred Thesiger and pulling a cart loaded with supplies. In May 2012 he concluded a 6-month, 3000 mile expedition walking the length of China, from the Gobi desert in Mongolia to South China Sea in Hong Kong. National Geographic produced a 4-part TV series of the journey. Other journeys include 14,000 miles solo and unsupported on a bicycle from New York to Hong Kong, a folding bike trip around the British Isles to climb the Six Peaks, a human-powered descent of the longest river in Iran, the Karun, and a crossing of Argentine Patagonia on horseback. Most recently he walked 1000 miles from Jerusalem to Mount Sinai to explore the other side of a misunderstood region.