AN ADVENTUROUS LIFE

"They told me at a very early age, just because you're a girl doesn't mean to say you can't do what you want. Decide what you want to do and do it right." Helen Thayer tells, that is what his parents told her to believe, so that at the age of 9 years old she climbed her first mountain. Now she has grown and thanks to her personal experience of
adventuring into the world she's a writer, a photographer and an important motivator and through her personal example spreads this personal message: "The world has so much to offer those who push their horizons to infinity and learn to solve the problems encountered along the sometimes rocky road to success."
She has been the first woman to travel alone to the North Pole, with Charlie an Inuit dog trained to face the White bears, who became his faithful companion of life, after his husband Bill. It was 1986 and in her book 'The Polar dream' she tells her adventure and the profound relationship that she established with Charlie who helped her in the enteprise. At that time she was, and many would say 'already', 50 years old. An adventure of 27 days and 585 km through the North Pole and without supplies (they were almost all destroyed by a storm), face to face with the White bears and into the traps of a wild, unknown and dangerous territory. It was a success! Then her adventurous spirit took her to live quite a year near the wild wolves, above the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Yukon territory, this time together with her husband and still her faithful Charlie. Later she adventured into the Gobi desert together with her husband for a walk of 1,600 miles, it was their 40th anniversary of marriage, and they were respectively 63 and 74 years old. Their 50th anniversay they spent it in a walk of 700 miles into the Sahara desert. The statement of her parents, she received at an early age, took root in Helen and her life could become the adventure she dreamt of, disregarding every limit that the human mind could conceive.
Man only puts limits, but when he thinks no limits he can realize everything. By looking 'beyond the horizons' we can go beyond any limit but that is possible when we enlarge the present concept of self. We  must go beyond who we are if we want to find who we want to be and thereon the adventure into our dream starts. To those who think that it's too late to realize a dream, any dream, this story is the proof that the age is really uninfluent in reaching a goal, what's of import is to have the goal well firm in mind and to believe in it!









'When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."'  (Luke 5:4)