Miles Hilton-Barber
AbundanceByChoice: "Blind Adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber has, in the last six years alone, set numerous world records whilst undertaking extreme endurance events in Siberia, and across the Sahara, Gobi, Qatar and Mojave Deserts.
He has also climbed in the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro, Mt. Blanc, scuba-dived 12 miles under the Red Sea, hot-air ballooned over the Nevada Desert, man-hauled a sledge over 400 kilometres across Antarctica, set the world lap record for a blind driver on the Malaysian Grand Prix Circuit, and circumnavigated the entire world, using over 80 different forms of transport.
He is the first blind person to fly the English Channel in a microlight, holds the British duel microlight high-altitude record, and has wing-walked on a fully aerobatic 450 HP Boeing Steerman bi-plane.
He is the first blind person to do the solo kamikaze skeleton run down the 5G Olympic bobsleigh track in Lillehammer, Norway, and has recently returned from participating in the toughest desert ultra-marathon in the world through Death Valley California, where road temperatures reached 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
He is also planning to fly a microlight more than halfway around the world from London to Sydney, Australia, relying on revolutionary speech-output technology, accompanied by his sighted co-pilot.
Miles' other past accomplishments include Grade 5 Zambesi white water rafting, Scottish Grade 3 technical ice climbing, abseiling, the 1998 London Marathon, para-sailing and 40 sky-diving jumps. "
