Meet the Brit who travelled 3,556 miles to Alaska's deadliest mountain

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Meet the Brit who travelled 3,556 miles to Alaska's deadliest mountain
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Oli France is an expedition leader, adventurer and speaker, specialising in leading groups through the world's most remote and hostile places.

Oli France is an expedition leader and speaker who recently ventured from Death Valley to Denali As a severe storm eased on the side of Alaska’s most deadly mountain, British explorer Oli France suddenly noticed the sound of a helicopter. Watching it fly overhead, the explorer’s stomach sank knowing what the aircraft carried. ‘I’d just finished messaging my three-year-old daughter on a satellite phone,’ Oli, 33, recalls to Metro. ‘Then we set out to climb a really steep section of the mountain.

Read the full story » Oli’s 3,500 mile cycle was the equivalent of cycling from London to Dubai ‘The bike ride was a long, lonely journey at times,’ Oli recalls. ‘These were remote areas of North America where I might have one interaction a day, maybe. I listened to music and podcasts to not go crazy. Sometimes I could go through an entire podcast series in one day of cycling. ‘When I needed to fire myself up, I’d get some house music blaring.

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