From the excellent Intrepid Magazine newsletter about female-powered adventure…
“Solo Adventures Spotlight
This month, we’re going to be talking about solo adventures. Doing things with friends is awesome, but sometimes it’s great to go it alone too. Whether your motivations are to challenge yourself or you simply don’t have anyone to go with, there are plenty of adventurers who choose solo.
- Jenny Tough – split between Scotland and Canada, Jenny’s current project is to run the length of a mountain range on each continent. She also takes part (and often wins) endurance/adventure bike races. Her website jennytough.com has some useful videos about packing for solo adventures. For her short films, start with El Miedo (The Fear) about her run across the Bolivian Andes.
- Anna McNuff – founder of Adventure Queens and author of many adventure narratives, Anna has done some pretty big solo adventures. Like running the length of New Zealand and cycling through all 50 states in the USA: annamcnuff.com
- Sarah Outen – rower, cyclist, kayaker… Sarah took on a huge solo project London2London via the world, a journey of some 25,000 miles that took 4.5 years and wasn’t without setbacks. Read her blog or watch the trailer of the multi-award winning expedition film Home.
- Lucy Barnard – is trying to become the first woman to walk the length of the world from the bottom tip of the American continent to the top. So far she’s walked 30,000km: tanglesandtail.com
- More women than you think… Several years ago, I wrote a blog post collecting 100 Women who walk or run solo to counteract the negativity on Google search for “women who walk alone”.
The idea that it’s unusual or brave for a woman to be on an adventure alone is a bit of a bug bear of mine, having personally done many fairly remote trips on my own. If you have any questions about the practicalities of it, I’d be very happy to help. The more normal we make this, the better! Drop Intrepid an email (no thoughtful question is too silly).”
Glad to see so many women taking on the toughest of the adventures, quite an inspiration for the rest of us. I’d love to see some of these feature on your blog.
There’s a good book you might enjoy called Tough Women – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tough-Women-Adventure-Stories-Determination/dp/1787833003/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Agree (obviously and definitely) that it shouldn’t be considered unusual as women are brave AF and beyond and have been doing insanely amazing things since ever.
yes!