A team of four adventurers have just kayaked non-stop from Land’s End to the Pembrokeshire coast. The Beeline Britain team completed the longest open sea kayak crossing in the UK, paddling for over 34 hours without sleep to cover the 200km+ journey. They are the first people to ever cross from Land’s End to Pembrokeshire in sea kayaks.
The Beeline Britain team are attempting to be the first people to journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats in a straight-line. Their record breaking charity attempt has started with a record breaker with their first leg. The challenge involves another 18+ legs of travel including sea kayaking, road cycling, mountain biking and hiking over Ben MacDui in the Caringorms, the UK’s second highest peak.
Team Beeline Britain are Tori James, who aged 25 became the youngest British woman and the first Welsh woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest; Paralympian and BLESMA Member Nick Beighton, a former Captain in the Royal Engineers from Shrewsbury who lost both his legs above the knee when he was struck by an IED explosion on duty in Afghanistan in 2009; RAF helicopter crewman, lifelong adventurer and creator of the 'beeline' concept Ian O’Grady; and Adam Harmer, a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and professional outdoors instructor at the UK’s National Mountain Centre, Plas-y-Brenin.
For double amputee Nick, this is going to be an even greater challenge. Using a range of specially designed equipment including an adapted sea kayak, custom-built hand-cycle and specialist Vibram walking stubbies with crutches, he will be using his upper body strength throughout.
The aim of the challenge is to raise £20,000 for BLESMA - The Limbless Veterans, which is the national charity for all limbless service men and women, their widows and dependants.
The challenge involves 18+ days across some of the most extreme coastal, mountain and urban environments in the UK.