Sublime

You don’t have to wait for your luck to change. Audrey Sutherland became a hero and a pioneer of women’s solo adventuring. She had an extraordinary capacity to put herself into unfamiliar situations, such as solo kayaking 800 kilometres through Alaska in her sixties, seventies and early eighties. She was her own inspiration. She did it with one

As a storm raged across the Irish Sea, we’d sought refuge in the small Welsh harbour of Solva, renowned for its quaint cafes, craft shops and galleries.

The monks arrived as early as the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., having sailed and rowed from the west coast of Ireland. Setting out in small, open boats called curraghs, built from cowhide stretched over light wicker frames, they crossed one of the most treacherous stretches of ocean in the world without knowing what, if anything, they’d find on