Jacki Hill-Murphy has travelled extensively ‘off the beaten track’ since leaving school, including travelling Africa in a Land Rover for a year and Istanbul and back with her young son. She spent many years as an English and Drama teacher before leaving to become an adventure film maker, the highlights of which were filming the Atlantic Race, crossing the Empty Quarter twice with Outward Bound and co-organising an expedition into the heart of the Llanganates in the Andes to search for the lost Inca gold. Following in the footsteps of the early female explorers has so far taken her to Cameroon, Ecuador, Ladakh and Siberia. She lives in Bristol.