Round Britain Climate Challenge takes flight

• ‘Human Swan’ Sacha Dench has taken off on courageous circumnavigation of Britain by paramotor 
• Sacha takes off from Scottish beach on Round Britain Climate Challenge

After several delays caused by bad weather and technical issues with the paramotor Sacha Dench has taken off on the first ever circumnavigation of mainland Britain by electric paramotor.

She took off from the beach at Stevenson on the west coast of Scotland heading south along the coast on her 3,000 mile + journey around Britain – ending back in Glasgow in around 12 weeks’ time.

She will be landing frequently, and with her ground crew will be talking with, filming, and gathering information from industry, innovators and entrepreneurs, local heroes, communities, schools, farmers and individuals – anybody involved in addressing the effects of climate change in their areas.

A compilation of these stories will be presented at COP26 in Glasgow in November.

Sacha flying along the Western Coast of Scotland

Sacha flying over Culzean Castle

Sacha flying over Turnberry Golf Course

The journey is set inspire and excite people in all walks of life to get behind climate change actions in Britain – to get involved at local level  in whatever small way to help reduce Carbon emissions. 

Sacha says: “We need to get 140,001 people to take personal climate action between 18 June and 17th July to get a Guinness World Record. There’s a great way of doing this through Count Us In https://www.count-us-in.org/ – so please sign up NOW! 

“As well as investigating how climate change is affecting different regions of the country, we will be showing, in a visually stunning and exciting way – from the air, ground and underwater – what is happing to help cut carbon and preserve and restore our environment.

“We’ll be finding the likely and unlikely heroes and discovering where and what works. I am so looking forward to meeting all the hundreds of inspiring people along the route.”