This episode is about my 2016 adventure with Danny MacAskill and Gerhard Czerner to ride Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa – back to back on mountain bikes. Lots of great and rare photos by Martin Bissig. Possibly my hardest adventure to date with a great mission to distribute bicycles to people in need of transportation through my charity ‘Wheels 4 Life’.
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Nic Von Rupp ditches his home spot Nazare to go on a journey to surf a new big wave spot deep in Morrocco with his local friend Othman Choufani. Morrocco is so close, yet culturally so far.. anything that is easy in Europe is so much harder in Morrocco, specially Big Wave logistics
Seven months pregnant and apprehensive of the effect motherhood would have on her career as a professional freediver, Kimi Werner took a trip to the island of Jeju in South Korea to meet her heroes, the haenyeo – a group of freediving and fishing women often regarded as Korea’s first working mother’s whose culture dates back centuries.
Expecting her first child, Kimi will explore how the haenyeo represent feminine strength and resilience as a self sufficient sisterhood of diving mothers and grandmothers. As Kimi transitions from a solo underwater adventurist to a mother cultivating a family, she longs to learn from the haenyeo elders – many of which are well into their 70’s and continue to dive.
I talk you through some of my thoughts from my race run from Val di Sole in 2018 – Tahnée Seagrave