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A woman has completed an 11-month off-grid trek alone to raise money for suicide prevention.
Kit Birks, 30, said walking nearly 5,000 miles was ‘one of the toughest and most incredible experiences’ of her life as the massive expedition came to a close.
Setting off on July 7 of last year, she traversed 13 countries in Europe, passing through the remote wilderness of Nordkapp, Norway, all the way to the isolated Greek island of Gavdos.
She lived out of a 23kg backpack and spent stretches of up to 10 days completely off-grid in the Arctic Circle.
Along the way, she narrowly avoided a cliff fall in Sweden and constantly had to navigate the unique personal safety challenges that come with wild camping and travelling alone as a woman.
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