Living Your Dreams by Miles Hilton-Barber
"Miles' attempt to be the first blind person to walk to the South Pole is an extreme act of courage, and I have nothing but awesome admiration for his bravery and determination." Michael Palin "I can't even imagine the difficulties of travelling in polar regions without being able to see things. I once was semi-blind in the Arctic and everything became doubly problematic. Total blindness would have been nightmarish. My admiration for Miles is enormous..." Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the World's Greatest Living Explorer. "His vision, ambition and desire to push out the barriers is truly inspirational." Steve Pateman, Director, Corporate Banking, RBS Blind adventurer and international motivational speaker Miles Hilton-Barber has set numerous world records, undertaking extreme endurance events across the Sahara, Gobi and Qatar Deserts, as well as Antartica and Siberia. He has climbed in the Himalayas, Kiliminjaro, Mt Blanc, scuba-dived 12 miles under the Red Sea, circumnavigated the entire world using over 80 different forms of transport, and was the first blind person to fly the English Channel in a microlight. As a speaker, Miles has undertaken over 250 corporate presentations in 95 cities around the world, and is keynote speaker thoughout Great Britain. Companies where he has spoken recently include Rolls-Royce, BP, O2, Nationwide, KPMG, RBS and Orange. In this 2 disc programme, Miles shares the rich, humourous life-lessons he's learned in overcoming his blindness and meeting the challenges of his adventures. Only those willing to risk going too far will discover how far it is possible to go.
