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Row For Freedom – The Girls who took on the Atlantic

Published in Beyond Limits Magazine 4th January 2012 “THE WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT FOR THE FASTEST FEMALE TRANS-ATLANTIC ROW Five Women 40 Days 3,000 miles Two World Records One Ocean” They were strangers. Now, together they endure seasickness, peeing in a bucket on deck and traversing a boat while being permanently clipped on because at anyContinue reading “Row For Freedom – The Girls who took on the Atlantic”

Interview with Sean Conway – Next in line to attempt the G.W.R for the fastest cycle around the world.

1.What expeditions/adventures have you been on to date? Not a lot really. Well not as much as I would have liked to have done. I have done Kilimanjaro (dressed as a penguin), competed in ultra endurance canoeing marathons and spent a fair bit of time in the Himalayas soaking up the mountains. Adventure is notContinue reading “Interview with Sean Conway – Next in line to attempt the G.W.R for the fastest cycle around the world.”

Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist

1.What are your emotional motives behind your adventures? Mostly I go on adventures to satisfy my own curiosity. But what I’m curious about has changed since I started. On my first trip I was naive and idealistic, so everything was interesting and new and it broke my preconceptions. As time went on I became curiousContinue reading “Interview with Tom Allen – Global Cyclist”

Nepal Riverboarding Exhibition

“10 people, 10 boards, one virgin river.” The Sun Kosi and Tamur River roar through Eastern Nepal. Born in the Himalayan mountains its rapids are fierce, its interior littered with rocks and wild surf that set out to crush and devour you. It was a free river, until last week when ten adventurers stepped up andContinue reading “Nepal Riverboarding Exhibition”

Snowboarding – the coolest sport in the world

Now this is what I call a sport. I’m not going to lie, I picked snowboarding over skiing because it trumped it tenfold in the cool stakes and I was correct, line up adrenaline junkies this your next hit. No wonder snowboarders invent their own vocabulary, because when you are weaving down the side ofContinue reading “Snowboarding – the coolest sport in the world”

Interview with adventurer Dave Cornthwaite

Dave Cornthwaite is somewhat of a legend in the adventure world. On his maiden exhibition in 2006 he longboarded 896miles from John O’ Groats to Land’s end, making him the first person ever to skate the length of Britain. Following that, he burst his limitations bubble and concluded that there was no such thing as limits.Continue reading “Interview with adventurer Dave Cornthwaite”

Kitesurfing on Achill Island, Attempt 1

Here is the information that anyone can provide; 120 euro for three hours with the company Pure Magic, on Lake Keel, Achill Island. On the other hand, what I can offer is a descriptive personal experience so as you can make up your mind before you start counting the pennies.  It was, in reality, 120Continue reading “Kitesurfing on Achill Island, Attempt 1”

5 Ironman’s in 5 Days

The body is a temple. it can be cared for, it can be abused and in an athletes case it can be pushed to extremes and exhausted, so as on occasion the audience gets to witness crazy yet incredible things. On 8 June 2011, 26 year old former army member Ian Walsh, will attempt toContinue reading “5 Ironman’s in 5 Days”