They embarked on the toughest adventures of adulthood before they turned 25. Here are the polar explorers, sailors and five young women crossing the mountains and their exciting stories.
Jessica Watson touring the southern hemisphere alone
Jessica Watson, an Australian, is a sailor like Laura Dekker. Watson, who was born in 1993, was only 16 years old when she completed her adventure of spending 220 days on the sea alone. After traveling solo throughout the southern hemisphere, she received the Australian Medal Award and was officially declared a “hero” by the prime minister, but in her speech she stated that she did not consider herself to be a hero, just an ordinary person who had a dream and worked hard for it.
Jessica Watson said that anything could be possible and she was a young person who struggled with dyslexia before her voyage. After her journey, she published a book. The documentary she shot at sea was told by Sir Richard Branson, and the producers of the Oscar-nominated film Lion are currently working on a film adaptation of Jessica’s story.
Arctic Explorer Jade Hameister
Australian Jade Hameister completed her great arctic trilogy as a result of her Arctic adventure at the age of 16, making her history as the youngest person in the field. She got the idea and courage from two women she met at the age of 12 on her march to Everest Base Camp. Jade made a total of three expeditions on ice on a 1300-kilometer area with skis on her feet and her own heavy equipment sled.
She completed the Great Arctic Trilogy and became one of the few people to tour the North Pole, Greenland and the South Pole. His father and a guide accompanied on her discovery of the Arctic covered with snow-white snow. She stayed in the tent for 75 days and survived the storms. Jade Hameister, who occasionally connected to her social media accounts and shared photos of his situation, turned the story of turning the polar dream into an adventure after returning home.
Amazon adventurer Laura Bingham
As an adventurous young woman on her bike in South America, Laura Bingham completed her journey without any money in her pocket. Bingham, who stayed with his help on the way, and met her needs, married her famous boyfriend Ed Stafford, who was walking alone on the Amazon River for seven months, and gave birth to a boy. He still makes adventure trips with his wife or as a single, writes children’s books and makes programs.
In a natural environment full of crocodiles, piranhas, scorpions and jaguars, she is also one of the first to land on the Essequibo River in Guyana, South America. During her 10-week adventure, his sons, whom his father was taking care of, seem to have already inherited a great adventure legacy from her parents.
Laura Dekker touring the world alone
Laura Dekker, a young sailor from the Dutch New Zealand who has a controversial story, sailed to the world by herself when she was only 14 years old. The public was divided into two when it announced the tour, which was planned to last for two years. She successfully completed her journey, but many people were welcomed by his family to allow it.
Laura Dekker made this decision after reading the book ıma Alone ıma by American sailor Tania Aebi, who traveled the world alone. Tania Aebi was the youngest person to tour the world by herself, but Dekker was inspired by the fact that she could not get someone to help her during her voyage. Laura Dekker was able to reach the title of the youngest touring around the world with sailboats when she was 16, but the Guiness Book of Records did not recognize the record in order to protect young people from dangerous attempts and said she did not approve of the passenger started before the age of 16.
“Bird Woman” Sacagawea
Sacagawea (Sacajawea), a native of the Native American Shoshoni tribe, was an 18-year-old mother who had just emerged from puerperium when she helped thousands of explorers from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean. Born in 1788, Sacagawea was married to a Canadian merchant. In those years, US President Jefferson commissioned two people to explore the region she had bought from France.
They reached Sacagawea’s wife and the journey began. With her 2-month-old son in his arms, she knew the plants while she was leading the explorers in the Rocky Mountains, knew how to take advantage of their healing properties, and bravely crossed the terrain. She became synonymous with the name “bird woman” and became a respected name in American history with her calm and sincere helpfulness in this duty and the strength and courage proved in the rescue of a toppled boat.
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