Phoebe Smith is an adventurer, author, and award-winning travel writer specializing in sustainable travel, solo hiking, family adventure and wildlife conservation. She hosts the monthly Wander Woman Travel podcast, files reports for BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, and has presented countless segments on TV for BBC Countryfile, BBC Breakfast, C5 Saturday Live and ITV’s Britain’s Best Walks.
She is sleep storyteller-in-residence at Calm, where her stories have been listened to over 30 million times and been narrated by Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Cillian Murphy, Jerome Flynn, Bindi Irwin and Danai Gurira to name a few.
She is also the author of 11 books including the best-selling Extreme Sleeps and Wayfarer: Love, Loss and Life on Britain’s Ancient Paths.
Smith is the co-founder of the #WeTwo Foundation, a charity that empowers underprivileged young people through carbon negative expeditions. Over the past 15 years she has masterminded, planned, organized and undertaken hundreds of expeditions—big and small—across the world. She walked from the polar ice cap in Greenland to the ocean solo, pulled pulks to journey inside a glacier in Svalbard (last stop before the North Pole), tracked wild puma in Patagonia, navigated Myanmar’s Myeik Archipelago, and hiked to Everest Base Camp as part of the support team to the North East India’s Expedition.
She is passionate about using adventure to help others and as such has undertaken a series of UK-based expeditions, including walking the width of Britain over Christmas dressed as Wonder Woman and dangling from 10 UK landmarks on consecutive nights using portaledges to help raise over £42,000 for homeless young people. Smith also walked the length of mainland Britain in winter with fellow explorer Dwayne Fields to kickstart the #WeTwo Foundation’s fundraising.
She is proudly an ambassador for Scouts, Kew Gardens, OS Maps, Wild Night Out and president of the Long Distance Walkers Association.
