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Alex Alley
British Round the World Yachtsman Alex Alley has spoken all over the world on his racing experiences, from teaching himself to sail to representing and winning for his country by the age of 19. Leading a team around the world through the freezing expanse of the Southern Ocean and around Cape Horn, d… |
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Andy Kirkpatrick
The US magazine Climbing once described Andy as a climber with a “strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult”, with a reputation “for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces i… |
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Bear Grylls
Bear joins only thirty British climbers to have successfully completed climbing Everest and return alive. On the way down from his first reconnaissance climb, Bear cheated death navigating the perilous Khumbu Icefall, the ice cracked and he fell into a crevasse that was 1,000 feet deep, was knocked… |
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Ben Fogle
Having been chosen as a volunteer by the BBC to spend the year 2000 marooned on the Outer Hebridean Island of Taransay as part of the great millennium experiment Castaway 2000, Ben returned to city life in London but has been indulging his countryside passions on-screen:- presenting Countryfile (for… |
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Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders is a record-breaking long-distance skier, with four North Pole expeditions under his belt. He is the youngest to ski solo to the North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton. Since 2001, Ben has skied more than 2,500km (1,500 miles) in the high Arctic,… |
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Cathy O'Dowd
Cathy O’Dowd is the first woman in the world to climb Everest from both sides. She has been on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain as the last minute ‘token woman’ team-member, and as an expedition leader. She has worked in partnership with a wide range of internationa… |
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Chris Moon
Chris Moon has been described as a ‘hero of our times’ by The Daily Mail. After specialist training from a Royal Engineer bomb disposal officer he supervised and trained former Cambodian soldiers in mine clearance. He is one of the few westerners to have survived abduction by the Khmer R… |
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Dee Caffari
‘We can do more than we think we can. We just have to dare to dream.’
Dee Caffari
Yachtswoman Dee Caffari has sailed into the record books – three times. In 2006, Dee became the first woman in history to circumnavigate the world solo ‘the wrong way’ (ag… |
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Dee Caffari
‘We can do more than we think we can. We just have to dare to dream.’
Dee Caffari
British Yachtswoman Dee Caffari has sailed into the record books - twice. On 18 May 2006, Dee became the first woman to circumnavigate the world solo ‘the wrong way’ (against the prevailing w… |
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Dr David Lewis
Dr David Lewis is a pioneering psychologist, author and award-winning broadcaster. He has written more than thirty best-selling books which have been published world-wide in different languages, amongst them: Winning New Business, Stress for Success, One Minute Stress Management, The Secret Language… |
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