Adventurers
Adventurers are sophisticated thrill seekers, planning their journeys very carefully. Whether it is cycling across the world, flying into space, or sky-diving over mountains, everything has to be planned down to minute detail to avoid as much risk as possible.
Some adventurers have spent years in the pursuit of adventure, like Alastair Humphreys, who spent four years traversing the global. He has probably experienced more of the world's culture, than any of us, having lived and breathed local customs and culture across 5 continents
Adventurers grasp what life has to offer, and make the most of any opportunities that come their way. Their sense of fun and adventure is very infectious, and the stories that they can tell will grab your imagination, and hopefully inspire you to be more adventurous as well.
Adventurers come in all forms, from Miles Hilton Barber, arguably the world's most adventurous blind man, Alastair Humphreys, who cycled all across the world, Yossi Ghinsberg, who survived an ordeal in the jungles of South America to Per Wimmer, the first Danish Astronaut to go into space with the Virgin Galactic programme.
Alastair Humphreys
Alastair Humphreys left England in August 2001 to cycle round the world. After more than 1500 days and 46,000 miles spanning 5 continents and 60 countries, Alastair arrived back home in November 2005. His journey, as well as being a pure quest for adventure, was also helping to raise the profile of the charity ‘Hope and Homes for Children’. Whilst on the road Alastair gave around 300 slideshows to support them.
Alex Alley
Alex Alley competed in the ‘Global Challenge’ as Watch Leader on Team Stelmar. Dubbed ‘The Worlds Toughest Yacht Race’, it sails the ‘wrong’ way round the world against the prevailing winds and currents. Alex stepped in as a last minute replacement after the previous Watch Leader left just 2 days before leaving for the Southern Ocean.
Ania Lichota
Ania Lichota was raised in Poland during the communist era. In her childhood she sold tomatoes, and other family farm produce, in a market. She later worked as an accountant in her father's shipping business, and by the age of eighteen she had set up her own metals trading and small appliances import company. Ania could not hold a passport until she was aged eight, but since then her passion for travelling has taken her to sixty countries around the world.
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls is one of the best known young adventurers in the world. At just 23 years old, he became The Youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest. In August 2003, he led the first crew to cross the Atlantic via the Arctic Circle in an open rigid inflatable boat. His television debut was on Ch 4's, ‘Escape to The Legion' and his latest series, ‘Born Survivor' for Ch 4 and Discovery USA.
Bonita Norris
Bonita Norris holds two mountaineering records. In the autumn of 2009 she became the youngest woman in history to reach the false summit of Mt Manaslu in the Himalayas, the world's eighth highest mountain, at 8163m.
Bonita's first experience of high altitude mountaineering meant negotiating a crevasse field over a mile long, avalanche prone slopes, steep sections of blue ice and walls of near vertical ice and snow.
Chay Blyth
Sir Chay Blyth was born in Hawick, Scotland on 14 May 1940. When only 18 years old he joined the British Army's Parachute Regiment where he rose quickly through the ranks of the Third Battalion becoming Sergeant at the age of 21, the regiment's youngest ever platoon Sergeant at that time. In 1966, Sergeant Chay Blyth, together with Captain John Ridgeway, rowed across the North Atlantic from Cape Cod to the Aran Islands in a 20ft dory.
Conrad Humphreys
Conrad Humphreys is an inspirational team leader and world-class British yachtsman, as well as a renowned personality in the south-west and on the international sailing scene. At 35, Conrad has already crammed a lifetime of adventure and achievement into his life enduring some of the most hostile oceans of the world. Conrad has sailed around the world three times, competing in three different races.
Debra Searle
Debra was heralded ".Britain's latest sporting heroine." (The Times) when the media worldwide went crazy for the story of the 5ft 5" young lady who carried on rowing alone when her husband, a 6 ft 5" experienced oarsman, left the boat after developing an uncontrollable fear of the ocean. Debra, who was loving life at sea in a 23 foot plywood boat, rowed on to become the youngest and only the third woman in the world to have rowed an ocean solo.
Miles Hilton-Barber
Miles has been blind for about twenty years but has not let that stop him from challenging barriers, seeking adventure and succeeding on expeditions to deserts, mountains and the polar regions.
He is an exceptional storyteller and corporate motivational speaker whose messages of "never give up", "expect the unexpected" and "think big to achieve big" come wrapped in a package of humour and profound personal insight.
Monty Halls
Monty Halls is one of the country's leading explorers. He had recently returned from South Africa where he led an international project seeking out sites of pre-historic settlements beneath the wild seas off the Cape of Good Hope. The team braved giant swells, cold waters and a significant shark threat to find several great caverns that could hold the answers to the very origins of mankind as a species.
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