2013 Edinburgh Fringe

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Fringe Legend multi award-winning, Perrier-nominated comedian, author, explorer and extreme unusualist, Tim FitzHigham, is back in a brand new show. This year he will be bespoke speaking about his most mystifying challenge to date.

The Spirit of the Fringe award winner's previous missions and brilliantly bad ideas have seen him paddle the Thames in a paper boat, row the Channel in a bathtub, live a year as a medieval knight errant, vigorously explore the Kama Sutra, Morris Dance from London to Norwich, take inflatables down Olympic black skiing runs, paddle logs up the Amazon and generally re-create the world's weirdest wagers. His unswerving devotion to his bad ideas and the shows they create has seen him fracture a couple of fingers and a toe (twice), break a rib, re-mortgage his house, contract a flesh eating microbe, collapse of dehydration, be blinded in one eye for six months, spend several nights with the Leith Police, survive minor concussion and be hospitalised with a bone-marrow-eating infection, among a further catalogue of injuries and stunning disasters. No one chases the punch-line to a story this hard.

Tim's much-loved 2011 show Gambler went on to sell out at the Melbourne and Adelaide Comedy Festivals in Australia, a sell-out tour of Switzerland and BBC Radio 4 aired a pilot of the show in February this year. His CBBC programme Super Human Challenge aired from January this year and took him from Iceland to LA to Dubai, seeing him climb the outside of the Doha Torch building in Qatar, run across Death Valley, pull a double decker bus full of rugby teams, swim with sharks, get frostbite running across Europe's largest ice cap bare foot in nothing but his pants, attempt to catch arrows, balance on chairs on the edge of the Grand Canyon and make the astonishing discovery that Tim has the highest resting tolerance to G-Force ever measured.

Add to this his two rather bizarre World Records, the fact that he is a Freeman of London, a Freeman of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, the Commodore of Sudbury Quay, the Pittance of Selby Town, Waterman to the Mayor, Unitary Authority of Swindon and has a toilet named after him, and that pretty much sums up why he is so amazing live (and so amazingly still alive).

Tim will also be appearing in the perennial hit of the fringe, award-winning Flanders and Swann, which is back this year for one week only!