Fifty-eight year old blind adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber has, in the last eight years alone, set numerous world records whilst undertaking extreme endurance events across all seven continents of our world, including;

• Man-hauling a sledge over 250 miles across Antarctica
• Completing "The Toughest Foot-race on earth" - 150 miles across the Sahara Desert.
• Climbing to 17,500 feet in the Himalayas
• Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt. Blanc- Africa's/Europe's highest mountains
• Running the 11-day Ultra-Marathon race across China from the Gobi Desert to the Great Wall
• Completing the "Coldest Marathon on Earth"- the Siberian Ice Marathon
• Competing in the hottest ultra-marathon on earth across Death Valley California.
• Crossing the entire Qatar Desert non-stop day/night in 78 hours without sleep
• Circumnavigating 38,000 miles around the world using 80 different forms of transport
• Setting the Malaysian Grand Prix lap record for a blind driver in a 200kph Lotus
• Setting a new British high-altitude record for a tandem microlight
• White-water rafting down the Zambezi River
• Completing more than 40 skydiving jumps
• Cage-diving with Great White Sharks
• Becoming the first blind person to do the solo kamikaze skeleton run down the 5G Olympic bob-sleigh track in Lillehammer, Norway
• First blind pilot to undertake a 55-day, 21,000 kilometre microlight flight from London to Sydney, relying on revolutionary speech-output technology, accompanied by his sighted co-pilot.
• First blind person to drive a 340 BHP performance rated Zap Cat power boat in ocean time trials.
• First blind pilot to undertake a sortie of extreme aerobatics in a +600 MPH Hawker Hunter fighter jet with an ex-Red Arrows co-pilot.
  

He is here to remind us that we too can live our dreams, because “the only limits in our lives are those we accept ourselves.”

 

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