A couple of months ago I was invited to talk at Nights of Adventure to raise funds and awareness for Hope and Homes for Children.

I was one of "an eclectic group of adventurous souls came together to give an evening of Pecha Kucha style talks". Each talk consists of 20 slides which scroll automatically after just 20 seconds.

Organiser Alastair Humphreys said: "It is an unusual, challenging presentation format" - damn right it is, especially when you know there are 400 people in the audience, but you can't see any of them as you're blinded by the spotlights!

You can watch videos of other presenters here - most of them are real adventurers who run across the Sahara, walk to the Poles etc. You can make a donation here.

Image by Gary Troughton via Flickr