Movies: Beau Miles

In 2007, Beau attempted to paddle 4000kms from one side of Africa to the other. Starting in Mozambique, he continued along the Southern African coast, allowing five months to complete the voyage. Battling surf, deep sea swell, and too many days waiti...

Beau Miles loves wood. When the old farmhouse at Outward Bound Australia was set for demolition Beau couldn’t shut his trap and said ‘give me three days before the excavator arrives’. In the baking heat of summer, he and his old schoolmate salvaged 3...

Eating only the contents of 191 tins of beans over 40 days transforms Beau into The Human Bean, and in doing so gives him a front row seat into how one food, totally and utterly, dictates how he feels. Beau uses his intimate knowledge of running to c...

Each day Beau Miles does something he's never done before....

Beau Miles and Hamish Blake travel with their kids to record a podcast on an island....

Haircut hater gets a makeover by wife...

In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the heart of Victoria, Australia. 120 years later a group of bushwalkers stitched the trail back together....

Beau's neighbours have given him a huge pumpkin for a project he's been meaning to do properly for years; go on a three day running and riding adventure while eating a single item of food....

Beau Miles' magnificent hat has lost the will to live. After fifteen years of sun and body fluids, with a heavy heart and a head full of memories Beau takes his favourite, thread-bare, stinking, beyond-repair hat for one last run....

Beau Miles renovates a canoe, while running a marathon....

Beau Miles rafts the Queen river, which is after 100 years of runoff from a mine, the most polluted river in Australia....

May and Beau head off on a slow, tooled-up, distracted lap of the block - which happens to be a perfect mile....

Beau Miles, taking inspiration from a double episode of Seinfeld, decides to hit the roadside and collect a truck load of redeemables to drive interstate to New South Wales to redeem them....

Beau Miles laces up for a different kind of world first, running 650+km of the Australian Alpine Walking Track. Traversing through the highest peaks in Australia, Beau battles injury, fatigue and ultimately himself in his own personal Trial of Miles....

This is the story of spending a night in a big old gumtree. Strapped to three builders planks (one of which had a large crack that I thought was spilled paint) I slept with one eye open, which was pleasant because I could see the view. Originally dri...

Beau Miles was asked to come in and talk on breaky TV about Backyard Adventuring. Beau said sure, "but why don’t I have a Backyard Adventure instead? I’ll run around Sydney with my wheelbarrow and collect up junk wood, make stuff, and present it to t...

Bass by Kayak follows a small expedition party crossing from the Australian mainland to Tasmania in sea kayaks....

Beau Miles searches the bush for his cameraman's wallet...

Following two rivers, one drain, one sea and one creek, it turns out that paddling to work, which ends up being mostly a drag, over four full days, is bloody hard work....

The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia's largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In my little red kayak I decided ...