Image credit: Pexels Guest blog by Hollie Jones Travelling can have many interesting — and sometimes challenging — consequences for our bodies. Jet lag, stomach problems, and dehydration can all be impacted by travel. But did you know that travelling can affect your period too? In this post, we’ll be exploring the different ways that…
Women’s Adventure Expo first came in touch with Eternal Landscapes’ owner, Jessica Brooks, when her love of wild swimming brought her and her fellow cold-water swimmer’s attention to one of the speakers at the WAEXPO conference back in 2017. Since then Jess – and her dynamic team of Mongolian women - have continued her mission…
We recently collaborated with Amsterdam-based magazine, ‘Period!’ in order to promote MMiEEP to a wider audience, and get more people talking about menstruation. Check out Period! magazine to read our post, and have a look at the great content they publish!
Becky Coles has a PhD in Glacial Morphology and works as a qualified mountaineering instructor and expedition leader guiding soldiers, school children and everyone in between. She has summited peaks up to 7000m across all seven continents and likes to take herself on remote expeditions to try to climb mountains which haven’t been climbed before.…
Written by Elena Holmes. A participant in one of our Managing Menstruation in Extreme Environments focus groups told me she wondered when faced with the prospect of undertaking a particularly exciting expedition, ‘what do I do with a tampon in Antarctica?’ The focus group discussed a wealth of ideas surrounding menstruation in adventure, but later…
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,…