Red Adventure Series with Mollie Hughes

A few months ago, we escaped Devon and adventured up to Scotland to attend the launch of Mollie Hughes' new book Blue Scotland at Ocean Vertical. We were blown away by the pure admiration people have for Mollie and everything she has achieved in her life, inspiring people’s adventures with a positive attitude that you can achieve anything and go for your dreams. 

Mollie Hughes successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest from the North side in 2017, this was Mollie’s second time standing on top of the world having already summited the South side of Everest in 2012. Achieving this at the age of 26 made her the youngest woman in the world and the first English woman to successfully summit from both sides of the world’s highest mountain. After that Mollie decided to ski solo across the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole in storm-force winds and temperatures hitting minus 45 degrees celsius, to reach the Geographic South Pole on the 10th January 2020. After landing back in the UK, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the UK went into lockdown, which meant restrictions for travel, so options for being active was limited.  This is where Blue Scotland began, a project that Mollie took on during this period to really show people how idyllic Scotland is and how it is a paddleboarders dream to be involved in these incredible Blue spaces.