Straight story? The YouTuber taking a direct route to success

Tom Davies has 925,000 subscribers who watch his attempts to cross countries without making a turn

When Tom Davies and his stepbrother, Greg, were growing up on the edge of Aldridge, a town in the West Midlands, they would pick a point in the distance, a TV mast for instance, and make their way straight there, even if it meant clambering through quarries, sneaking across railway tracks and running away from angry farmers.

Now Davies has channelled this childhood taste for adventure into a YouTube series following his attempts to traverse entire countries in a direct line, based on GPS tracking.

The scrapes he finds himself in along the way, from almost drowning in swollen rivers and slashing his hand on barbed wire in Wales to a run-in with the police in Scotland, combined with his laid-back humour (he describes Norway as Wales on steroids"), have garnered him a huge fanbase, with 925,000 subscribers to his channel.

Videos documenting his most recent straight line mission" across Scotland are currently racking up hundreds of thousands of views, with the next episode set to go live on Sunday - and each one could be his last as obstacles threaten to cut short his journey..