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Annabelle Bond is an international adventurer and activist, who came to prominence after climbing the summit of Mount Everest on 15 May 2004, making her the fourth British woman to do so. Annabelle Bond was born in Singapore, and moved to Hong Kong when she was 3 years old. While she was in Hong Kong in 1997 she began running long distance and for 4 consecutive years competed in The MacLehose Trail, an understated name for the 103 kilometer mountain marathon which covered some 23,000 feet of vertical in steambath conditions. Annabelle's best finish was second woman out of 4,000 competitors in a completion time of 16 hours and 50 minutes... See More
At the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover Utah on August 21st, 2008 - Leslie Porterfield of Dallas, Texas, set a motorccye land Speed record with a 2-way average of 206.75 mph at the 60th annual Southern California Tomong Association (SCTA) Speedweek event held August 18-24. This record earned Leslie inclusion into the prestegious Bonneville 200 MPH Club and Leslie became the first woman to enter the 200 MPH Club on a conventional motorcycle in the 60 plus year history of Bonneville Land Speed Record racing. Making it more impressive, Leslie ran a motorcycle without a fairing or aerodynamic aid in front of the rider. Leslie Porterfield has established herself as a force to be reckoned with in motorcycle land speed racing. She has set Bonneville SCTA, AMA and FIM World Records on both her 2002 Suzuki turbo charged Hayabusa and her 2008 Honda CBR 1000... See More
Christine Louise Bleakley was born 2 February 1979 and is an Irish television presenter from Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. Bleakley decided to undertake the challenge of water-skiing across the English Channel following a trip to Uganda with Sport Relief in 2008. To do this she had to overcome her childhood fear of water to water-ski across the English Channel – raising more than £250,000 for charity despite falling in eight times. After the crossing of the English Channel on waterskis her next challenge was to take to the skies for her another daredevil feat. Strapped to the top of a 1930s-designed Boeing Stearman airplane, the 32-year-old 'wing-walked' high above the Gloucestershire countryside... See More
Anna Cummins is a self proclaimed green lifestylist. Originally from LA, Anna has lived many places - Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and is now back in Santa Monica. She has taught organic cooking/gardening, ecology, green living practices, marine conservation (in Spanish), and is an avid bicycling supporter. In 2002, Anna heard Captain Charles Moore give a talk that forever changed her life. His research expeditions to the North Pacific Ocean had found oceanic regions full of plastic detritus, washed into the ocean. Stunned to learn that consumerism here on land could really disrupt ecosystems in such a massive area, she vowed to get involved, and began volunteering with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation... See More
Katja Poensgen is one of the best known female motorcycle racers of all time. Poensgen is a former 250cc Grand Prix rider – who became well known for her determined and gutsy rides against all male opposition in one of the most competitive classes of motorcycle racing. Katja watched her first race at just four-years-old and went on to achieve success in many different classes - including winning the ADAC Junior Cup in Germany before going on to compete in the German 125cc series, European Supersport Championship, European Superstock and of course the 250cc class of the MotoGP series. Katja Poensgen became the first woman to win an international motorcycle racing title. She topped all in the Supermono Cup series on a Suzuki 750 at Brands Hatch, UK, on August 2nd, 1998... See More
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Letizia Marchetti became interested in motorcycles when her husband introduced her to them at 23 years of age. She has since become the most dominant superbike racer in the womens division and became a legend when, at age 31, she beat thirty male competitors to win the Ducati Desmo Challenge at Mugello, Italy. Aside from motorcycle racing Marchetti is a scuba diver which she began as a child, in the Marche, where she went on holiday with her family. As a pastime diving is quieter than the bikes but it does bring out the other half of Letizia - that of the calm and rational. The restless and reckless is already addressed by her motorcycle racing... See More
35-year-old world champion Ewa Wisnierska discovered her passion for paragliding in 2000. Before long, she became dedicated to this form of aviation, worked as a flight instructor and was able to succeed in many national and international competitions. Since 2004, Ewa Wisnierska has been a member of the German National Team and is one of the best pilots in the world. Her major achievements include: European Champion 2008, 8 World Cup wins, German record en route - 300km in 2007, 1st Place in the World Paragliding ranking 2006 and 2008, the overall World Cup victory in 2005, the 2nd Place in the World Cup the same year, German champion since 2004, and numerous first places in international and national competitions... See More
Christine Dennison, is an explorer who leads expeditions to the most remote corners of civilization. She swims with sharks and piranhas in the Amazon rain forest and underwater caves of the Caribbean. She has logged over a hundred dives under the polar ice caps in the extremely harsh conditions of the High Arctic. A true adventurer she has been honored by winning admission as a fellow into the exclusive Explorers club whose members have been first to the North Pole, first to the Summit of Mt. Everest, first to the deepest part of the ocean and first to the surface of the moon. Christine Dennison is a founder and president of Mad Dog Expeditions... See More
British-born Jane Poynter is one of only eight people to agree to live sealed in an artificial world for two whole years… and succeed. Her training for Biosphere 2 led her to ride the rugged and isolated Australian Outback on horseback, and sail across the Indian Ocean and Red Sea on a concrete research boat. Involved in the Biosphere from the start, she managed the farm where the crew grew its food. She authored The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2. Jane is now President of Paragon Space Development Corporation, which develops technologies for extreme environments like outer space, under water and hyper-efficient buildings... See More
Helen Skelton became the first person to high-wire walk across Battersea Power Station after completing her challenge for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day 2011. Helen took just 11 minutes to complete the feat as she crossed the wire 66 meters in the air. The weather was windy and she had to take countless deep breaths to stop herself from wobbling. For the last few steps she could barely see because one of her contact lenses had fallen out. Skelton also completed the longest solo journey in a kayak – 2,010 miles – but also set the longest distance travelled in 24 hours by a woman in a kayak at 75 miles... See More
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