Rosie Swale-Pope

Rosie Swale-Pope, MBE, born Rosie Griffin in Davos, Switzerland on 2 October 1946, is a British author, adventurer and marathon runner. She completed a five-year run around the world, raising 250,000 pounds for a charity that supports orphaned children in Russia and to highlight the importance of early diagnosis of prostate cancer. Her other achievements include sailing single-handed across the Atlantic in a small boat and trekking 3,000 miles alone through Chile on horseback. Her Swiss mother died when she was two, and she was brought up partly by her grandmother in County Limerick, Ireland, and schooled at home. At 18 she hitch-hiked to Delhi, Nepal and Russia with almost no money, and from December 1971 she sailed around the world from Gibraltar via Australia with her husband Colin and daughter Eve.