Miles Hilton-Barber

Miles, 57, lives in the UK, in Derby with his wife Stephanie. He has three children called David, Debby and Abigail. By profession Miles is a motivational speaker and hopes to write a book about the Microlight Adventure.

If you would like to find out more about Miles please visit www.mileshilton-barber.com

Adventure Expeditions

2007 Miles is currently flying a Microlight over 13,000 miles to from London to Sydney Australia, relying on revolutionary speech-output technology, accompanied by his sighted co-pilot’s Richard Meredith Hardy and Brian Milton

2005 First blind person to do the solo Kamikaze Skeleton Run down the 5G Olympic bobsleigh track in Lillehammer, Norway.

2005 Participated in the Bad Water ultra-marathon across Death Valley, California, with road temperatures reaching 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

2004 Set a new British high-altitude record, climbing to 20,300 feet, with open cockpit temperatures plummeting to minus 55 Centigrade, frosting their flight instruments.

2004 Undertook a wing walk on a fully aerobatic 450 horsepower Boeing Steerman bi-plane.

2003 First blind person to fly the English Channel in a microlight.

2002 Qualifying as a scuba diver and undertook 12 open water dives in the Red Sea off Hurghada, Egypt, exploring shipwrecks 80 feet down on coral reefs.

2002 As part of a 5-man team crossed the entire Qatar Desert non-stop and unsupported.

2002 Participated in the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Jubilee Baton Relay Race.

2002 Took part in 'Around the World in Eighty Ways' a 93-day 38,000 mile circumnavigation of the entire world, accompanied by two disabled friends, using over 80 challenging forms of transport.

2002 Competed in the Siberian Ice Marathon

2001 Participated in an 11 day Ultra-marathon event across China, including sections of the Gobi Desert, 12,000 feet high Tibetan mountain tracks and the Great Wall of China.

2001 Climbed Ben Nevis (the UK’s highest mountain), and abseiled down several tower blocks for charity.

2000 Climbed to a height of 17,500 feet in the Himalayas, successfully conquered Kilimanjaro and took part in a military expedition climbing Mt. Blanc.

2000 Set a world record as the first blind person to man-haul a sledge over 400 kilometres across Antarctica. Frostbite prevented him from continuing his amazing bid to be the first blind person to reach the South Pole.

1999 Completed the Marathon Des Sables, a 150 mile Ultra-Marathon race through the 120 degree heat of the Sahara Desert.