Paddlesports
Jennifer Strong McConachie
Adventure Athlete, Fellow of the RGS and Author of “Go Far: How Endurance Sports Help You Win At Life”.
Sophie Ruffles
Mum, runner, & wild swimmer. Host of @whatnextmumpodcast 1x100km ultra, 7x marathons. Fast-packed The Jurassic Coast!
Dr. Adya Misra
British Canoeing #ShePaddles Club Champion. Raising awareness on the lack of diversity in paddlesports and helping to improve gender, ethnic and neuro-diversity in the paddlesports community.
Natalie Warren
Author of Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic
Lee Vue
Paddling the Mississippi River (2,300+ miles) and her team winning first place in the Women’s Voyageur Division in the Yukon River Quest, paddling 444 miles in 53 hours.
Darcy Gaechter
First woman to kayak the Amazon River, 4,300 miles from the source to the sea!
Sarah Davis
Adventurer - Paddling the length of Australia's longest river, the Murray River, 2,500km!
Anna Blackwell
“Kayaking the Continent” - 4000 km from England to the Black Sea through 11 countries & 5 capital cities.
Pip Stewart
Cycling 13,000 miles from Malaysia back home to London and most recently paddling the entire length of The Essequibo, South America's third largest river, from source to sea
Fiona Quinn
Walked Great Britain; 993 miles, solo and unsupported over 57 days. (And then cycled it!)
Sarah Outen
Adventurer who has just completed her 4.5 year expedition ‘London2London: Via the World’
Kelda Wood
First female adaptive athlete to summit Aconcagua and row solo across the Atlantic Ocean!
Renata Chlumska
Adventure athlete who became the first Swedish and Czech woman to climb Mount Everest and in 2005 did a circumnavigate of the lower 48 States of the United States by her own power.
Karen Darke
Modern-day ‘Alchemist’, passionate about turning challenge into opportunity and transforming the difficult stuff into ‘gold’
Sarah Davis
First Female-Led Nile River Expedition - 6,853km from the source in Rwanda to the Mediterranean Sea!
Veronica Ribot de Cañales
Retired diver, 3x Olympian, becoming an SUP racer and Yogi in her late 50s!
Susan Conrad
Kayaking ‘the Inside Passage’, 1,200 miles down the western coast of North America from Anacortes, Washington to Juneau, Alaska.
Laura Kennington
Kayaking in Russia, cycling the Wild Atlantic Way and circumnavigating 3 of the Channel Islands in an extreme triathlon!
Erin Bastian
Sea and wildwater kayaking, with expeditions to Sardinia & Patagonia! Nominated for the World Paddle Awards!
Jillian A. Brown
Paddling a tandem sea kayak down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and becoming the first Canadian to paddle across America; 6,500km in 150 days.
Clare Rutter
Paddlesports & outdoors enthusiast. A traumatic brain injury survivor and was the 2020/21 British Canoeing #ShePaddles Ambassador for Canoe Wales.
Soraya Abdel-Hadi
Award-winning writer, artist, and advocate for women and diversity in the UK outdoors. Founder of @alltheelements_
Ashley Manning
A plus-size adventurer who promotes body inclusion, equity and diversity in the outdoors.
Claire Hughes
Doing the Rickshaw Run in India, as well as being part of a mixed crew to row across the Atlantic Ocean, earning her a World Record!
Ursula Martin
Survived Ovarian Cancer - Walked 3,700 miles in Wales. Wrote a book. Now walking 5,000 miles across Europe!
Sarah Outen
Adventures by land & sea, Author 'Dare to Do’, Psychotherapist-in-training, Award-winning feature film #Home in cinemas now!
Kate Rawles
Outdoor philosopher, writer, activist and cyclist. Cycling South America for the Life Cycle biodiversity bamboo bike ride!
Lowri Davies
Kayaker, European Freestyle Champion & adventurer who has paddled in remote locations around the world, claiming first descents in Mongolia and Georgia.
Cal Major
PaddleBoarder | Surfer | Environmentalist | Surfers Against Sewage Regional Rep | Vet | Adventurer | Lover of vans | @paddlevsplastic | #oceanoptimism
Ness Knight
Accidental adventurer & explorer, whose cycled solo + unsupported 2000 miles across the USA, & first female in history to swim the length of the Thames River!
Lizzie Carr
Blogger, Adventurer & Environmentalist - First person to paddle board the length of England via its connected waterways, 650km (400 miles)!