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Lesson for business on risk with Felicity Aston
Felicity Aston polar explorer

Since returning from her record-breaking expedition to become the first woman to cross Antarctica entirely alone, Felicity Aston has been busy giving inspiring presentations up and down the UK.  People are fascinated to hear about what it takes to drag 85kg day after day across the endless ice across the equivalent distance from London to Rome.

As well as captivating the interest of the world’s media, Felicity’s story has some highly relevant lessons for business, as a leading credit card company discovered when she visited them last month.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes Tour: TICKET WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Sir Ranulph Fiennes Tour

With just a month to go before Sir Ranulph Fiennes begins his theatre tour, we decided to give away a pair of tickets per venue to 13 lucky people. 

This competition is now closed. 

The winners are:

Sarah Outen ready to attempt solo-row across Pacific Ocean
Sarah Outen ready to row the Pacific

Sarah Outen MBE is about to set off on the third leg of her London2London via the World expedition. 

Sarah began her attempt to loop the globe by bike, kayak and boat on April 1st last year.  The 26-year-old adventurer has so far kayaked across the English Channel, cycled across Europe and China and kayaked from Russia to Japan, a journey of 11,000 miles all under her own steam.

Kenton Cool announces 10th Everest summit bid with olympic twist
Kenton Cool honours olympic pledge with tenth Everest summit bid

A few weeks ago, Kenton Cool left his home in Gloucestershire heading for the Himalayas.  This is pretty routine for the internationally acclaimed mountain guide, who makes his living leading clients to the summit of the highest mountains in the world.  But this time instead of clients, Kenton will be honouring an olympic pledge by taking a gold medal awarded to a member of the 1922 British Everest Expedition to the summit of this iconic mountain.

Andy Kirkpatrick & Felicity Aston's TEDxHull talks
Felicity Aston: first woman to ski solo across Antarctica

Last month mountaineer Andy Kirkpatrick and polar explorer Felicity Aston were invited to talk at the first ever TEDxHull event.  Here are their talks...soloing the only vertical mile in Europe and skiing alone across Antarctica - very different but inspiring stories from two of our motivational speakers.

Al Humphreys rows the Atlantic
Alastair Humphreys - Adventurer of the Year 2012

Al Humphreys and his three team mates have successfully completed their challenge to row across the Atlantic Ocean today. Setting out in January 2012 they have rowed 3000 nautical miles from The Canary Islands to Barbados, spending a grueling 54 days at sea.

Tesco & RSPB's Rainforest Reporter Competition with Ed Stafford

Together for Trees Rainforest Reporter

Inspired by Ed Stafford’s Amazon expedition? Fancy going on your own rainforest expedition? If you have a keen interest in conservation and are good at storytelling and sharing your experiences then Together for Trees might just have the perfect experience for you.

New e-booklet showcases our corporate motivational speakers
Speakers from the Edge: Motivational speaking portfolio

To mark our fifth year in business we decided it was about time we had a brochure showcasing our motivational speakers. 

Felicity Aston & Andy Kirkpatrick at TEDxHull this February
TEDxHull

The first ever TEDxHull event is being held at the Hull Truck Theatre on Tuesday February 21st.  Focusing on the theme of Beyond Limits, the organisers contacted us looking for two inspirational speakers to include in their programme.   We suggested mountaineer Andy Kirkpatrick and polar explorer Felicity Aston, both of whom have considerable experience of testing the limits of human endurance.

Disaster for Mark Beaumont's Atlantic challenge as boat sinks
Mark Beaumont

Just days away from breaking the world record for rowing across the Atlantic in under 30 days, adventurer Mark Beaumont and his 5 teams mates have had to abandon their challenge after their boat capsized.

Thankfully all six members of the Atlantic Odyssey Challenge team are safe, after being rescued from their life raft by a cargo ship.  The team were taken to Gibraltar and have now all arrived safely back in the UK.