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Shared stories, advice and inspiration from women in adventure all over the world.
Hiking and Travel Saved My Soul
One day I reached the point where I felt empty dead. I had all the society dreams of but I was ... dead inside, my brain in a cage. I finally left everything behind and took my backpack to try to...
SWIM: one woman’s journey coping with grief.
When I was young, all my best birthdays were spent in the valley – picnic on the banks and swimming in the rivers with my favourite people. I was lucky enough to grow up in the Lake District in...
Health
I am training for my first two 100m rides, after having had a kidney transplant (which is failing) and a heart attack. I am 47 and have never felt fitter. The determination to succeed at being as...
Unicycling the 14 Car Parks of North Korea
I almost didn't make it through 2015. It was the most challenging year of my life. In celebration of being alive, I decided I needed to do something epic. That something epic was unicycling the...
Being a Woman In Adventure
I'm Patricia Berthelier, a dedicated 63-year-old French mountain bike and gravel bikepacker, and I've become addicted to ultra-distance bikepacking! I started cycling at the age of 40 and took part...
Cycling up Alpe d’Heuz
An amazing experience which all women cyclists should try! Submitted by Anonymous - Share your own story
Facing my fear of water to help save the planet
My husband Jason Lewis is a Guinness World Record-setting adventurer. I am an animal rescuer from Colorado with no experience at sea, no ability to swim and a deep-seated lifelong fear of water. I...
Opportunity: Women’s Outdoor Leadership Course
Here at the Outward Bound Trust, we believe that role models matter to the young people we work with and so we want to play a part in providing opportunities for the next generation of great female...
Getting lost but not
To quote Emil Zatopek the great Olympian distance runner of the 1950s... "If you want to run a mile, run a mile... but if you want a different life, run a marathon" I see this every day on my wall...
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