Emily Woodhouse is an award-winning adventure travel writer, published author and Guinness World Record holding adventurer.
Founder of Intrepid Magazine, she works to help break stereotypes about women in the outdoors. Previous expeditions include walking all the tors on Dartmoor and cycling to Switzerland and back.
She holds the Guinness World Record for climbing the most 3000m peaks in a week, which she did in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain in 2020. We have a good old chat about her tough week and what she learned from it.
The conversation ranges from growing up outdoors to understanding how much she needed it in her life as she left home for university. We also discuss her life-long passion for writing and how she has found herself combining it with her other love, adventure, to forge a career. Her website, Travelling Lines, and her magazine really are incredible and very inspiring.
Finally, we chat about defining adventure and that realising that doing what you think you “should” be doing is never a match for, deep down, what you really want to do.
We didn’t talk about Emily’s #challengecatie for two reasons: 1. I forgot to ask her (sorry!) and 2. When she did tell me about it, it made more sense to not tell anyone about it on a re-recording.
It is this: to go camping by myself, only telling one person for safety’s sake, where I will be and not telling anyone else about it. At all. Ever. So that it’s an adventure just for the sake of adventure, not to boast or “name drop” or be validated. I like it. How much, you’ll never find out!
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