Jill Wheatley was born in Canada and was working as a Physical Education teacher in Bavaria in September 2014 when she was hit in the head with a ball in a freak accident.
Jill was taken to Emergency but was sent home after only about 15min to nurse what the doctors described as a ‘black eye’.
Unfortunately, she spent the next 48 hours alone, drifting in and out of consciousness before she was found by a friend, rushed back to the hospital where it was discovered she had a fractured skull (amongst other injuries).
2 years, 7 hospitals and 3 countries later, Jill’s black eye never re-opened.
She was left with a traumatic brain injury and only 30% of her vision.
But that was not going to stop Jill from returning to her beloved mountains.
So she set a goal to circumnavigate the world and run not only trails but what she describes as “illustrious mountain ranges” with her “differently-abled” body.
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Amazingly, Chloë didn’t learn how to swim until she was 11.
Yet within 2 years, she was swimming at State level and eventually had her eye on Olympic qualification.
Sadly, that wasn’t to be.
But during her university years, she discovered triathlons which led to marathon swimming.
The year was 2006 and the rest, as they say, is history!
She now holds multiple world records including for the longest ever unassisted swim by any person - a mind-blowing 124.4km which she swam in the Bahamas in 2014.
At the start of 2020, Chloë arrived in England with 31 crossings of the English Channel under her belt, and a plan to break the men’s record of 34 crossings.
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Heather Swan was a very normal, everyday woman with no experience in adventure or even camping until her 30s.
A single mum with a distinguished corporate career, her life probably would have continued on that track until she met the man who is now her husband, Glenn. Glenn was a base jumper - and the rest, as they say, is history.
After doing her first base jump at the age of 40, Heather was gone onto become a wingsuit pilot.
She holds multiple world records (including for the world’s highest wingsuit base jump) and has flown her wingsuit over Sydney Harbour, the Grand Canyon and, most recently, Antarctica.
We discuss fear, risk, self-doubt and the inner critic in this fun conversation.
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