Kayaker to Attempt First Solo Circumnavigation of South Georgia Island

If all goes as planned, noted kayak explorer and guide Hayley Shepard will begin the first solo kayak circumnavigation of sub-Antarctic South Georgia Island, on February 3rd. She is undertaking this expedition to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered albatross.

On her website you will be able to follow her progress, as she paddles around a place once described by Captain James Cook as "a land doomed to perpetual frigidness, whose savage aspects I have not words to describe."