Reuters: Sports News: British woman completes rowing trip from Japan to Alaska

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British woman completes rowing trip from Japan to Alaska Sep 25th 2013, 03:27 By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Tue Sep 24, 2013 11:27pm EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A British woman has completed a 150-day journey rowing solo from Japan to Alaska, local officials and an expedition spokeswoman said on Tuesday as the adventurer rested at one of the state's remote Aleutian Islands. Sarah Outen, 28, became the first person in recorded history to row from Japan to Alaska, said Melanie Johnson, the expedition's project manager. Outen reached the island of Adak late on Monday, said Elaine Smiloff, a city council member from the community 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage. Residents of Adak, an island community of about 320 people, have rolled out the welcome mat for Outen, who is working on a multi-year mission to travel around the world using her own body's power. About half the residents of Adak came out to greet Outen when she reached the shore, said Smiloff, who is the community's former harbormaster. "It was pouring down rain. But we were happy to see her," Smiloff said. Outen is seeking to encircle the globe by bicycle, kayak and rowboat. She launched the 20,000-mile (32,190-kilometer) effort, called "London2London," on April 1, 2011, according to her Website. That year, she traveled 11,000 miles by kayak and bicycle across Europe and Asia to Japan, the site says. The expedition hit a snag in 2012, when her effort to cross the North Pacific was halted by a severe storm that forced her to return to London for nine months of training and regrouping. In her latest journey, Outen arrived on U.S. soil in Adak just as weather conditions in the area were deteriorating, Smiloff said. "It's going to get worse in the evening, and that's why it's so nice to have her in," Smiloff said. Outen traversed over 2,000 miles from Japan to Adak Island, according to her Website. She stopped within a half-mile (eight-tenths of a kilometer) of land and had to be towed the rest of the way to the island because of winds and current pushing her toward rocks, her Website's blog section said. Outen was not available for a telephone interview on Tuesday, because she was exhausted, Johnson said in an email. Outen is using the expedition to raise money for four charities, according to her Website. Outen was also the first woman and the youngest person to row solo across the Indian Ocean from Australia to Mauritius, accomplishing that feat in 2009, Johnson said. (Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Ken Wills) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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