Kate is passionate about using adventurous journeys to help raise awareness and inspire action on our most urgent environmental challenges. Her most recent ‘adventure plus’ journey, The Life Cycle, involved cycling the length of South America on a bamboo bike she built herself, exploring biodiversity – and why losing it is as great a threat as climate change.
Previous adventure plus escapades include The Carbon Cycle – a Rocky Mountain bike ride from Texas to Alaska exploring climate change, and Gyre to Gaia, a sailing voyage with Pangaea Exploration focussed on ocean plastic pollution.
A former university lecture, Kate's now a free-range activist/author/speaker, using the Adventure Plus concept to reach audiences ranging from mountain festivals to business conferences. She runs occasional Outdoor Philosophy events, harnessing the power of (relatively) wild places to inspire and support sustainable ways of living and working. She is also a sea-kayaker, hillwalker and bookworm as well as a long-distance cyclist.
Kate is a Fellow of the Society, a member of the Adventure Syndicate and an eco-ambassador for the Lake District Foundation. The Life Cycle; 8000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike (Icon Books, 2023) was shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Festival Adventure Book Awards, 2023, and was chosen by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of their top-10 books about travel in the same year.
She is a regular on-stage interviewer for Kendal Mountain Book Festival and was a judge for Stanfords Travel Awards, in the ‘fiction with a sense of place’ category, 2024.
