After 150 days at sea, Sarah Outen has solid ground under their feet. The 28-year-old British woman has crossed the Pacific became the first man in a rowing boat and landed in Alaska. Your balance: “It was brilliant and brutal.”

To 11.34 clock on Monday Sarah Outen Adak has been reached. In the harbor on the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, they could leave their rowboat “Happy Socks” exactly 150 days after their departure in Japanese Choshi. Thus, the 28-year-old is the first person who has rowed alone across the Pacific Ocean.

“I spent some of the most intense and impressive months of my life out there in the Pacific – it was brilliant and brutal at the same time,” said the British adventurer after their arrival according to “eTurboNews”. She had been physically and mentally to the absolute limit, “my body and my mind are now exhausted.” Outen wrote on Twitter: “. Been embraced on the coast tumbled, ‘Happy Socks’ pawed, then disbelief relief joy Happy happy days….” In her blog she had previously also reported hallucinations and sleep deprivation.

The 3750 nautical miles (7000 km) in the rowing boat with sleeping cabin, solar and desalination plant were extremely perilous: Outen capsized five times during the past four months. Once she was almost rammed by a cargo ship in the fog, as their radar failed 160 kilometers off Alaska. Their original route to Canada they had to change due to bad weather. Because of the strong winds and currents from the cliff she had to leave the last few hundred meters of a tow boat to Adak.

In between Sarah Outen also reported of happy moments. When she met whales, sharks and albatrosses. And when she became engaged to her partner, Lucy Allen – they made ​​a marriage proposal via satellite phone. “It’s funny how life goes,” she says in her blog, she had never imagined that her journey would be a love story or “that I would ever engaged myself in a boat out at sea.”

With the seven-meter-long “Happy Socks” Outen has managed to record on the second attempt. Their first boat “Gulliver” was destroyed in 2012 during her first record attempt in a storm. She herself was rescued by the Japan Coast Guard from drowning. When the storm and the British rower Charlie Martell has failed with the same project before Japan’s coast, a Russian freighter took the then 41-year-old after 34 days at sea on board.

For the 28-year-old’s Pacific crossing is not the first extreme tour. 2009 Sarah Outen rowed solo across the Indian Ocean in 124 days, she managed the 4,000 nautical miles from Australia to Mauritius. Also the Pacific crossing is only part of the 32,000 km journey around the world-wide project “London2London”: On 1 April 2011, she had set out in the British capital and traveled to Japan by bike and kayak. In April 2014, it will get up again from the Aleutian Islands in a sea kayak – tions UK.

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