After being hit by a car while cycling in 2014, Vanessa's world was turned upside down. Motorcycles weren't a part of her life before the accident, but have been instrumental in her recovery. She's an enduro and Harley rider and is determined to make the most of every day. She is a huge social media influencer within the adventure motorcycling world and will be delivering a mini masterclass in sharing your adventures with the world through social media.

In search of adventure and charting her way through grief at the sudden death of her father, at 24 Sarah Outen became the first woman and youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean. This then led to her London2London:Via the World journey - a 4.5 year 25000 mile loop of the planet using human power. Rowing, cycling and kayaking around the northern hemisphere, the journey was all the richer for not turning out exactly as planned. These days Sarah is training to become a psychotherapist and adventuring more locally to home with her wife and three donkeys. Sarah will be doing a live Q&A after a screening of her incredible film 'Home' and a live workshop on Ocean Rowing.

Karl is attempting to complete the longest walk in history. He left the UK in 1998 and has been walking home ever since. So far, Karl has walked from from the very southern most point of South America, all the way to Turkmenistan. He has walked every single step of the way, including through the 'impenetrable' Darian Gap (at a time when it was controlled by the FARC) and across the pack ice from Alaska to Russia! So he has very literally walked the entire way!! Karl will be drawing on his experience from crossing the pack-ice, hacking his way through the impenetrable Darien Gap, to teach us about planning for these places and the general preparation for extreme enviroments.

Over the last 5 years, Jamie has taken on 30,000 km's of human powered adventures through 28 countries. Jamie is best known for his outrageous, 17,000 km run from Canada to Argentina but his CV of adventure is bursting with crazy challenges most of us couldn't dream up! Jamie will be running a workshop on what and how to pack for long distance cycling adventures.

Global Motorcycle Guinness World Record Holders, Julia and Kevin Sanders founded of UK based motorcycle expedition company, GlobeBusters back in 2004.  It’s fair to say that after fifteen years of preparing and riding with hundreds of motorcyclists on overland adventures in Africa, Asia and the Americas, they’ve got trip planning off to a fine art.  And it’s normally Julia sat in the back office organising freight, hotels, documents – you know, the exciting stuff. Julia will chat about the key aspects of planning a route, what practical things to take into account and contingency planning, using the GlobeBusters London to Beijing trip as a practical example.

Jits is the star of the show for Tania and Adam - it's their trusty but elderly campervan, and both their home and transport as they travel around Europe, filming, photographing and documenting their adventures. Adam’s mum inspired their sabbatical and they’re honouring her example of seizing the moment and following your dream. The couple kicked off on the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’, driving the Western coast of Ireland, before travelling around Scotland, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland & Italy. Capturing some stunning scenery on the way and creating some unbelievable videos (check out their YouTube channel). They have lived and breathed Van Life so we could think of nobody better suited to deliver a workshop on exactly what Van Life entails and what you need to consider if you fancy swapping putting your house on wheels!

This adventurous pair have racked up more than 100,000km's on their motorbike and aim to circumnavigate every continent on earth. They push the limits of adventure motorcycling and if it wasn't for Covid-19, they would currently be attempting to pass the through the Darien Gap! They'll be presenting from Mexico telling stories from the road and giving more details on their attempts to circumnavigate each continent!!

Kinga's been 'On Her Bike' since 2017 when she quit her job in Australia and set off to ride around the world on a motorbike.  Her current trip is called the 'Are we there yet?' tour because she doesn't know where it will end! She joined us to chat about her adventurers at one of our film nights back in 2020 when she was stuck in Poland, but has since managed to get back on the road and is now making her way through Africa! Having been on the road since 2017 the obvious, million dollar question is how does she afford it? Well, we're going to find out as she'll be delivering a workshop on 'making money on your adventures'!  It's one you definitely don't want to miss and for anyone who has ambitions to travel and make money to keep you going this will be the ideal workshop for you!

In her own words Candida is "an Indian Girl Riding the world". She most certainly is! Candida has ridden in every state in India and has ridden all the way from her home town in India to Sydney Australia. She's already an adventure motorcycling legend and was a huge hit at the first Armchair Adventure Festival. Candida will be delivering a workshop on 'Adventuring In India'. India is high up on many peoples list for where to adventure to when international travel resumes and we think nobody is better placed to give us tips on the best locations, roads and hidden gems than Candida.

Tiffany is probably the world’s foremost female motorcycle traveller having ridden over 300,000 miles, crossing every continent, some of them several times. She’s travelled just about everywhere and classes her more remote exploits as her favourite journeys- Timbuctoo, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, Madagascar and Borneo . Tiffany not only has an international reputation as a traveller, but she is also a highly qualified and experienced self-defence tutor. She’s taught classes all over the world with a focus on inspiring and enabling others to travel. With all this in mind we're delighted to be welcoming Tiffany to join us at bootcamp. She'll be delivering a masterclass on 'Staying safe in the wild places', something that is absolutely critical for any adventure.

Richard Pyshorn is the Managing Director of Survival Wisdom, a Cornish based Survival and Resilience training organisation. He spent 30 years as a Force Protection specialist in the UK Armed Forces; specialising in protection of high value assets in threat environments around the world. Having experience of 10 operational tours of duty, he has survived in environments from the Middle East to Central American jungles; having completed some of the most arduous and toughest courses within the British military. Richard has been a trainer for 30 years and is qualified in numerous areas such as NEBOSH General Tech, IOSH Managing Safely, Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 7, ILM Level 5 in Coaching for Management. Along with many operational awards and citations and in recognition of a very full and rewarding career, he was asked to become a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2013. With all this in mind, we think Richard is going to be perfect for delivering a session in Adventure First Aid, which really can be the difference between life and death.

Reluctant adventurer,  Nathan Millward started with small bikes, riding a Honda CT110 postie bike home from Australia to England, and then across America and up to Alaska. He worked for Adventure Bike Rider magazine for a bit before doing other things, including running the Garbage Run Tours. He now runs Dorothy's Speed Shop. Named after his first post bike, Doroth's is a hang out and place for bikers to go off on off-road trails in some of the most scenic parts of southern UK. This along with his extensive knowledge of UK roads through the Garbage Run mean he is the perfect person to run a session on UK Road Trips for anyone who is thinking it would be best to holiday and explore in the UK this year.

Roseann and Jonathan are founders of the Overland Expo, the world's premiere overland and adventure travel event. They have also been outdoor adventure and travel writers for over 35 years and will share tips for recording your journeys so that you can turn them into articles and books when you get home (or from the road, if you are super organised!).

In 2013 Michelle Lamphere quit her hotel executive job, sold her house and rode away on her motorcycle bound for Ushuaia. The two years of adventures, planned and unplanned, she experienced along the way forever changed how she sees the world. She's a rider, writer, and traveller, and owns a small inn in the Black Hills of South Dakota where motorcycle travellers are particularly welcome. Michelle will be joining the 'Wandering Women' panel.

Olie takes a slower pace to his adventures than some of our other speakers and has taken on some truly remarkable human powered challenges. Most recently, Olie walked 4,500km, the length of India, to uncover untold stories of Partition and Independence and in 2015 Olie became one of only a handful of people to travel the full length of the Amazon River on foot and by kayak. Olie will be delivering a live workshop about kayaking adventures.

Dan Grec is an Australian adventurer, snowboarder and photographer who now hails from Canada. After driving 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina on the Pan-American Highway, Dan became inspired by the characters he met along the way, and is now passionate about helping others realize their own Overland dreams. More recently Dan completed a 54,000 miles circumnavigation of Africa in his specifically prepared Jeep Wrangler. The expedition ran for 999 days through 35 countries on the continent. At Bootcamp he'll be doing a workshop in International Overlanding Tips & Tricks.