Louise Minchin on biggest challenge from new project
Louise Minchin has revealed the biggest challenge she faced when working on her new project.
Appearing on The One Show this week to talk about her new book Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women, Minchin told hosts Alex Jones and Roman Kemp about the many challenges she faced along the way.
In the book, Minchin takes on a number of sports challenges with "incredible women", which included freediving under ice and swimming to San Francisco's Alcatraz island.
According to Minchin, one of the scariest and most extreme challenges she faced was a cave diving expedition she undertook with explorer Christine Grosart as her guide.
"It even makes me feel nervous thinking about it now," she said as a picture of her and Grosart flashed on the screen. "This is just after I'd got out of the caving, I'd been four hours in the dark with this amazing woman Christine Grosart who's a paramedic and also a cave explorer and there is not enough money in the world to pay me to go back in."
Speaking about the frightening experience, Minchin said she thought the pair would be going into a beautiful and well-lit cave, but the expedition was actually a dark and claustrophobic nightmare.
"I thought we'd sort of go into a beautiful cave and it would be well lit and we'd wander around and there'd be stalagmites and stalactites," said Minchin. "We literally arrived, there was a hole in the ground, it was tiny, I had to squeeze through and keep on squeezing through for the next four hours. And for me, I'm really claustrophobic and I found it really, really hard."
Louise is known for taking on incredible challenges and for always providing motivational words. The great news is, if you want to hear more from the star, you can come and see her in conversation at our exclusive event, Good Housekeeping Live in partnership with Dyson.
Taking place on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 November at 116 Pall Mall in London, Louise will be speaking with other incredible women on Friday 10 November.
At the talk, you'll hear all about what drives Louise and her friends to achieve their unique physical feats. Guests will leave this session feeling empowered and ready to take on the world — and you'll also take home a copy of Louise’s book!
Tickets for Louise's chat cost £30 — and you can buy them HERE
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