#18 Bex Band Professional Adventurer Life Is Better Outdoors
One Wild Life Podcast with Abbie Barnes
English - April 25, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Fitness abbie barnes backpacking hiking living wild long distance hiking outdoors physical health stay wild walking wellbeing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Bex Band is the founder and director of Love Her Wild, a registered non-profit Female Adventure Company, established in 2017. It has since grown into the largest of its kind in the UK with over 25,000 members.
Through Love Her Wild Bex aims to make adventure more accessible to women, and has raised more than £10k for charity, removed over 10,000 pieces of plastic pollution from waterways, and set up 8 mentoring partnerships.
Bex is a professional adventurer too, boasting an impressive array of previous explorations, and she is currently in the throes of organising the Women’s End2End relay, a world-first hiking relay covering the length of the UK.Alongside this and everything else, she has recently published a new book Three Stripes South, following her 1000km journey along the length of the Israel National Trail in 2016.
When she’s not running the Love Her Wild community, Bex is a mum to her daughter Rivi, and a passionate advocate for environmental conservation.