Tough Girl Podcast

Ellen started to get into adventure in her late 30s. By day she work as an engineering, by night, she dream of adventure.    In 2017 she wanted a new, big, scary challenge and decided on an arctic expedition - crossing Svalbard.    Ellen has never been anywhere that cold before and she didn’t’ know how to ski! She didn’t know if the challenge that she had decided on would even be achievable.   The Svalbard Expedition was meant to go ahead in 2020, when Ellen was 42. It was postponed from 2020 to 2021 and again to 2022.    To keep herself motivated, during the delays and wanting to focus on building her endurance, she set herself a more local project – the Cheshire Challenge to walk all 25 long distance paths in Cheshire totalling 1,500km.   In January 2022, Ellen had her sabbatical booked, and found out the Svalbard crossing would be going ahead in April.    During this podcast Ellen shares more about the challenge, the lessons learned and provides top tips and advice to help you with your next adventure.