Sacha Dench – known as The Human Swan - will be flying into the Eden Project tomorrow (August 2) as part of a world record breaking challenge.
Sacha turned her attention to raising global awareness of the effects of climate change after her family lost their home in the Australian bushfires.
She will be staying overnight near the Western Australian Garden at Eden on Monday and on Tuesday morning will meet with Eden Co-founder Sir Tim Smit and a number of other individuals who are doing what they can to address climate change.
For Sacha’s Round Britain Climate Challenge, she is flying an electric paramotor – a bit like an electric fan with a large sheet above her – over 3,000 miles around the coast of mainland Britain. This will gain her a Guinness World Record for the greatest distance flown by electric paramotor in a 30-day period.
The expedition is designed to inspire and excite the nation to get involved in tackling the climate crisis – and lift the country’s spirits after the effects of the pandemic.
Sacha started just outside Glasgow and has flown through the Lake District, around Wales and the West Country landing frequently, talking with, filming, and gathering information from, industry, innovators and entrepreneurs, local heroes, communities, schools, farmers and individuals – anybody interested in or involved in addressing the effects of climate change in their areas. A compilation of these stories will be presented at COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November.
On her journey Sacha is also calling on people to sign up to Count Us In. This is a campaign to inspire people to take personal climate action in a month as part of a global effort https://www.count-us-in.org/