Competitor bio:

Linda Blakely is an Ironman athlete and adventurer. She is a five-time IRONMAN World Championship (Kona) finisher and a Team GB age-group athlete, winning silver at the 2015 European Long-Distance Triathlon Championships. In 2018, Linda became the first British female climber to summit Mount Everest and Lhotse within 24 hours, and only the third woman ever to achieve this feat. She is also the first person from Northern Ireland to row the Atlantic Ocean solo, and in 2024 became the first woman in history to have both summited Everest and rowed an ocean solo. In 2025, Linda completed the Marathon des Sables – Legendary, finishing 12th overall female. Having climbed a great mountain, rowed an ocean, and run a desert, she’s now ready to walk to a pole.