First female ambassador for EOCA
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) has continued to add to the list of elite athletes who have agreed to become ambassadors for its programme of work to preserve wild and beautiful areas around the world.
Latest to sign up as an EOCA ambassador is German-born adventure athlete Nadine Horn, the first woman to support EOCA’s work in this way. Ms Horn spends most of her time planning and leading unusual and demanding expeditions involving cycling, running and swimming.
Last year, she spent two months cycling the perimeter of mainland Spain, a total of 4,000 kilometres. She is now preparing for a new challenge she calls the Three Border Triathlon, which will cycling across Switzerland (around 450 kilometres), swimming the Danube through its entire German course (approximately 550 kilometres, from Donaueschingen in the Black Forest to Passau in Lower Bavaria, from where the river flows into Austria) and running across Austria for just over 315 kilometres.
Ms Holt has said she will work throughout this adventure to raise awareness of clean, healthy, inland waterways and to raise money for restoration projects along the banks of the Danube.
