Kate Leeming

Crossing 20 countries in 299 days, access through the final stretch in Somalia was granted by breakaway states, including Puntland where al-Shabaab rebels threatened the convoy.

Sponsorship was used to support "Breaking the Cycle in Africa", highlighting development needs and activities of war-torn and poverty-stricken nations, particular the education of girls.

[5] In June 2019, she became the first person to cycle the entire Namibian coastline, 1,621 km largely on sand, crossing extensive dune fields as well as beaches.

[7][8] Recent expeditions have included "The Andes, the Altiplano & the Atacama" (2020 and 2022, from Cusco, Peru across the Bolivian Altiplano and the Argentinian Puna de Atacama), "The Lights of Ladakh" which brought solar power to the most remote community in the Zanskar Range, the Indian Himalaya (film, 2018[9]), along the course of the Finke River in central Australia, down the Baja Divide in Mexico and training in Svalbard, Northeast Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland for a proposed expedition across Antarctica.

[1] In February 2023 she completed her first brief Antarctic venture—a 201 km cycling trip from Wolf's Fang Runway to Whichaway Camp, with vehicle support.