Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent (born 29 November 1978) is a British travel writer and broadcaster who specialises in solo journeys through remote regions.

In 2005 Bolingbroke-Kent left her job on The South Bank Show to drive an auto rickshaw from Bangkok to Brighton with her friend Jo Huxster.

[5] The comedian Stephen Fry called it a ‘brave and marvellous adventure.’ [6] In 2013 Bolingbroke-Kent followed the remains of the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia on a Honda Cub motorcycle.

In 2019 she was the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Neville Shulman Challenge Award,[11] and spent two months exploring the Naga tribal territories of Northeast India and Myanmar.

Bolingbroke-Kent's other journeys include circumnavigating the Black Sea,[12] motorcycling the Pamir Highway[13] and walking a section of Georgia's Trans-Caucasian Trail.

[18] She has also produced and presented a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth (about community-based conservation efforts in Nagaland[19] and Tajikistan) and Open Country.