Check out this little video that History's Women Adventurers put together about Alexandra David-Néel, who they describe as the ULTIMATE ADVENTURER! Thanks so much for letting me use it guys, sums her up perfectly :)

Somewhere along the way, during the final six month stretch of her 14 year journey, Alexandra David-Néel came across a fur hat in a patch of woodland. Much to the dismay of Yogden her adopted Lama son, she decided to pick it up. Yogden was wary of the furry thing, believing it was a bad omen and advised her to leave it where it was. Not being one for superstition, and spurred on by the freezing temperatures, Alexandra decided to keep the hat, and placed it on her head, where

Back when Alexandra David-Néel was in Sikkim, you could travel there freely, and she ended up staying for at least 2 years. Now, due to government restrictions, you can only get an entry permit for 15 days. You can extend this after the 15 days is up, but the route we are taking wont enable us to get back to Gangtok in the South in time to renew it to the maximum 30 days - so 15 it is once we hit the Sikkim border. Because of this, and because people have told me I'd be silly

I’ve been blown away by all the help I’ve been offered by friends, family and strangers since I started organising this expedition. The first person who has saved my bacon is Valerie Parkinson. Valerie worked with me at Exodus Travels and is one of the most inspiring women I’ve ever met. She has spent over half her life in the Himalayas, and was the first British woman to summit the eighth tallest peak in the world, Manaslu in Nepal (8,163m), without supplementary oxygen. To

It was National Poetry Day last week, and while I was relentlessly googling Alexandra David-Néel like usual, I stumbled across a really beautiful poem about her by poet and fellow David-Néel enthusiast Alexandra Carr-Malcolm. I contacted Alex and told her all about my expedition and how I had found her poem. Like so many people I've contacted out of the blue throughout this project, she was so incredibly enthusiastic and supportive, and was kind enough to let me share her poe