Jordan Wylie climbs Ukraine's highest peak Mount Hoverla
A HAMPSHIRE TV personality recently climbed the highest peak in Ukraine.
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A HAMPSHIRE TV personality recently climbed the highest peak in Ukraine.
AWARD-winning adventurer and a hunter on Channel 4's Hunted, Jordan Wylie MBE, will return to host this year's Pride of Andover awards ceremony.
AN AUTHOR and adventurer from Andover returned to the town last week to inspire local businesses.
24th December 2020 There are more than 27,000 child refugees living in Djibouti who have been displaced by the conflicts in Yemen and Somalia. And thanks to Mr Wylie's fundraising efforts through children's charity Frontline Children, a school has now been opened in the remote desert region of As Eyla. Speaking to Forces News from Djibouti, he explained his inspiration for the project. "One of the children I met a few years ago, a little boy called Ibrahim who lives out in the desert in the Asal region, his dream he told me, was to go to school like his sisters did, one day."
Advertisement After adventurer, author and former soldier Jordan Wylie rowed solo, unsupported and unarmed across the most dangerous body of water on the planet - the pirate-infested Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (aka the Gate of Tears) – he described the 13-hour 42-minute voyage, from Djibouti to Yemen and back, as 'the toughest thing I've ever done'. And at that point, in 2019, he'd done a few tough things – run marathons in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan, for instance. Now he's raised the extreme-adventure bar higher still, with a 2,377-kilometre (1,477-mile) paddleboard odyssey around Britain h...