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Sarah Outen is an adventurer who was the first woman and youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean. She’s currently part-way through an expedition called London 2 London Via The World, which involves completing a loop of the planet using only human power – cycling the land and rowing and kakaying the water. She began the journey on 1 April 2011 and reached Choshi, Japan, in April 2012. Twenty-six days into the row from Japan to Canada she was hit by a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean; her boat was damaged and she was forced home. We caught up with her while she’s back in the UK, preparing to get to back out there on the expedition, to find out more…

Mountain guide John Falkiner was a pioneer of telemark skiing in the 1970s – and then a skiing stuntman in the James Bond films. We talk crazy stunts, and why the actors wish they could do what he does…

Adventure Travel: Describe your first trip to the mountains?

John Falkiner: I was born on the flat plains of the Riverina, southern New South Wales in Australia. I went to Mount Buller in Victoria with my father when I was very young during the summer. I can always remember being amazed at how far you could see from the tops of the mountains. It was there that the magic began…

AT: How did you turn that passion into a career?

Julia Pickering, 35, is an adventurer, snowboard mountaineer and husky dog fanatic. She was the first female and second person ever to have climbed and snowboarded the three highest peaks in the Arctic Circle and recently journeyed deep into Alaska to scale the remote Mount Bear, 4,520m. We caught up with her to talk about winter, work and husky wrangling...

Dave Cornthwaite, 32, is an adventurer, writer and film maker, best known for his Expedition1000 project where he intends to complete 25 human-powered expeditions, each in excess of 1,000 miles. We caught up with him while he was taking some time out to write his next book and fatten up for his next adventure, to find out what’s driving him to complete such an extreme project.

AT: What’s your mission in life?

DC: To shift people’s mindsets away from living according to what’s expected of them. Humans are now capable of going through an entire lifespan without thinking about what really makes them who they are. I want people to realise they can live more for less and keep things simple. It’s better for our state of mind, for our planet and for the people around us. I want folks to smile more.