Motivated by a desire to explore and connect with people and wild places, Israh has travelled extensively. Her journeys have included travelling the Silk Road, trekking in New Zealand, the Middle East, Central America and Europe, and recently she completed the Pacific Crest Trail, a six month trek through wilderness from Mexico to Canada. She…
I don’t know about you, but the thing that really ruins an adventure for me is the sight of plastic litter in places that it really shouldn’t be. There are an estimated 2 billion menstruating humans on the planet today, and collectively we are responsible for dumping over 12 billion disposable sanitary pads and 7…
An estimated 500 million women worldwide are having their period right now. Five. Hundred. Million. 500,000,000 women are menstruating at this very moment. Just let that sink in for a moment. And then consider the fact that it’s the year 2017 - we have learnt to eradicate disease through mass vaccination programs, mapped the entire…
By Elena Holmes Around fifty-per cent of the world’s population is female, which means, taking into account menstruation ages and frequencies, that there could be around 334 million women menstruating at any given time. What we can conclude from this, then, is that a huge number of humans on this planet experience menstruation. On average,…
We spoke to Anna-Marie Watson about all things menstrual! Interview by Elena Holmes. Anna-Marie is an ultra-endurance athlete and performance coach who runs her own company Reach For More with her husband Ben. She has been pushing her endurance boundaries running various ultra-races and competing in long distance triathlons since the London marathon in 2004,…
Written By Elena Holmes More to the point – will swimming with your Aunt Flo, when on the rag, surfing the crimson tide, when having the painters in, with your cousin Red (etcetera), make you more likely to be eaten during shark week? Common myth suggests that sharks, whose apparent and oft-repeated superpower is their…
“I Am Human, The Same As Every Other Person, I Am As Powerful And Kind And Able As Every Other Person. I Can. I Will. I Am! I Am The Creator Of My Own Future, The Pioneer In My Own Adventure Story.” – Beth French Interview By Elena Holmes Beth French is a pioneering adventurer…