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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cycling up Alpe d’Heuz
An amazing experience which all women cyclists should try! Submitted by Anonymous - Share your own story
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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