THE ROUTE
James’s epic 9000 mile journey begins on the south coast of England where he will set sail across the English Channel for France.
Once arrived on the continent he makes his way overland through France and Spain to Seville where a tall ship lies at anchor.
He sets sail across the Atlantic Ocean stopping off at Tenerife and Cape Verde en route to Montevideo, Uruguay.
From Montevideo he passes through Buenos Aires and then west across South America to his final destination, Santiago de Chile.
THE RULES
James is putting ‘fossil fuel free’ travel to the test. That means he must travel by any means possible to avoid directly emitting CO2… bike, sail, electric trains, horseride, paddle, swim, walk… whatever it takes to get to Chile in time for the Climate Change Conference. If at any stage he has no choice but to take transport that produces emissions he will account for this and offset it.
THE MESSAGE
Here’s where the global youth come into it. Over the past few years James has been speaking to schools, societies, and businesses, inspiring audiences with his passion for the natural world, adventure
and amazing people.
The purpose of James’s journey is to deliver a message from children from all over the planet hammering home their concerns, dreams and demands for ‘their future’ to the politicians and the world at the UN climate conference. The message will be in the form of a hard-hitting, beautiful and emotive short film that each child contributes to as James meets more young people along the way. Children all over the world can also contribute their messages through the ‘Race For Future’ website.
A dedicated page on the project website functions to engage kids anywhere in the world in the climate change issue and show them how to take part and submit their video contributions to this ‘crowd-sourced’ message from the global youth.
A NOTE FROM JAMES
I’ve travelled the world pushing the frontiers of adventure filmmaking and testing myself to the absolute limit. But I couldn’t
have achieved any of it without the help of the kind and generous people I’ve met along the way.
People are the key achieving extraordinary challenges.
This journey begins in my home town of London and ends 9000 miles away in Santiago de Chile… a lot of what happens in
between cannot be planned and will depend on the fascinating folks I find and how their stories can inspire us all to act on climate change.
I do know one thing though… when people come together we can achieve anything.
The success of this climate change adventure will depend on exactly that… togetherness.