About crossing borders

Female adventurers of our time

Pushing the boundaries and trying out something new wit- hout knowing whether we will be able to meet the challenge or not: we all do this in our daily lives, even if the task in hand is not always climbing Mount Everest. The twenty wo- men portrayed in this book, some of the greatest adventu- rers of our day, seek happiness in athletic extremes – and so- metimes find it somewhere completely different. With them, we dive without oxygen in the Arctic Ocean, cross the world’s most inhospitable deserts – and rediscover the boundless beauty of nature.