80 Ways Around the World

• In 2002 Miles set off on the massive “Around the World in Eighty Ways” project, accompanied by two disabled friends. This was a 93-day, 38,000 Km circumnavigation of the entire world, using over 80 challenging forms of transport, promoting the untapped potential of people with disabilities.

• These included swimming a distance of 11 miles in the Red Sea, hot air ballooning over the Nevada Desert and setting the lap record for a blind driver at the Malaysian Grand Prix Circuit, racing a 230 kmph Lotus.

Who thought four disabled people in a cardboard boat on the river Liffey in Dublin on Friday 13th was a good idea? King of the road in Indianapolis 90 feet up on the yardarm of a tall ship in Monaco – not easy for someone with a fear of heights. Sand-yacht racing over the Nevada salt flats Miles pushing Mike along the bottom of the Red Sea. On a convoy of Harley-Davidsons to meet the Mayor of Capetown. How else should you arrive at the Irish Ambassador’s house in Delhi? Pre-race nerves on the Malaysian Grand Prix circuit. Travelling by camel