For those of you who have not heard of Shanaze Reade check her out - this girl is awesome! Starting aged 10 on the BMX track, by the time she was 17 Shanaze was Britain's number one women's rider,...
Category: Inspiration
Mother and Daughter Kayaking Adventure
The winners of this year's Sean Conway Adventure Scholarship are mother and daughter Addi and Athina (age 8). Together they will be kayaking down the Leeds-Liverpool canals, a distance of 127 miles...
Sarah Outen – cycling, rowing and kayaking around the world!
Back in April 2011, Sarah Outen set out from Tower Bridge on her London2London: Via the World expedition. Her goal was to row, bike and kayak around the northern hemisphere, inspiring children and...
‘Our own mind is our biggest obstacle to living and achieving our wildest aspirations’ Karen Darke
When I'm not outside climbing, biking or running most of my time is taken up by either preparing for adventures or searching for inspiration. I can't tell you how many blog posts and videos have...
Girlie and Burly
As Lynn Hill once said... Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.There are a whole range of great films about Women in Adventure online at the moment inspired by the...
Coxless Crew: The First all female team to row the Pacific Ocean
Check out these four incredible women who are aiming to set the world record for not only being the first all-female team to row the Pacific Ocean, but also the first-ever fours boat to row the...
Just a Little Run Around the World
October 2015 I went to an evening hosted by Jagged Globe, amongst a series of great talks I was most looking forward to hearing Rosie Swale Pope speak. As soon as she started talking I was...
Sasha DiGiulian joins Youtube
Sasha DiGiulian is a professional rock climber. She has completed ground breaking multipitch and big wall routes, led one of the hardest sport routes ever climbed by a woman (9a/5.14d), and achieved...
Inspiring books by Women in Adventure
If you are feeling the need to be more adventurous, books are a great way to feed your imagination. You don’t have to be planning to summit Everest, trek across the Himalaya, or solo the north face...