Explorer, Author, Campaigner
Belinda is the leading voice promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing and author of the best-selling book Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge
She also hosts Adventure Mind, a ground-breaking alliance and conference series that explores the link between adventure, wellbeing and mental health. Belinda has run Explorers Connect, a non-profit organisation connecting people to adventures for 20years, encouraging over 30,000 ordinary people to engage in outdoor challenges.
An explorer in her own right, Belinda has walked across Nicaragua, searched for camels in China's Desert of Death, discovered ancient rock paintings in Lesotho, pioneered inclusive expeditions for people with disabilities, lead dozens of youth development expeditions around the world and gained a Guinness World Record for rowing unsupported around Britain. Belinda has managed remote trips for, amongst others, Bear Grylls, Ray Mears & Chris Ryan and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and British Exploring Society. She is also an Ambassador for The Youth Adventure Trust.
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Belinda uses her life-long passion for adventure and the great outdoors to offer life-changing experiences to other people
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“Quite the most remarkable achievement carried out by any women alive today. Absolutely magnificent both for mental and physical achievement bar none”
“One of the most inspiring contemporary female adventurers ”
Belinda's revolution is starting to get noticed and 2017 she was named in The Sunday Times ‘Alternative’ Rich List which celebrates 40 people in Britain who lead “extraordinary, worthwhile and satisfying lives” alongside Sir David Attenborough, Virginia McKenna & Tunde Okewale OBE
“I’ve spent 25 years leading groups into the wilderness and I’ve seen adventure change people’s lives, as it changed mine. It makes us happier, healthier, it teaches us to take challenges, to appreciate our wild places and each other and gives us moments of lasting joy. Now I’m on a mission to make adventure more accessible, to bring about a societal change that brings us closer to the natural world, to challenge, to risk and to each other”
Cover photo courtesy of Greg Childs Photography