Catherine Edsell profile

“I wanted to go out and change the world, but I couldn’t find a babysitter.”

Catherine Edsell FRGS is an adventurer, conservationist and global expedition leader with 25 years’ experience in the industry. Having worked in some of the remotest areas of the planet, (sometimes with her kids in tow), she keenly noticed the benefits of being completely off-grid, immersed in the natural world. Wishing to share her experiences with others, she created The Matriarch Adventure™ – transformational extreme wilderness expeditions encouraging women to ‘step into the wild’.  She has now teamed up with Rhiannon Sully-Newman and Maverick Mums to bring a bespoke Maverick Mums Matriarch Adventure, just for you!

She is also a yoga teacher, PADI Divemaster, TEDxLondon speaker, published author and ambassador for EHRA supporting endangered desert elephants in Namibia.

Catherine describes how she rediscovered her sense of adventure - and herself - after becoming a mother. She encourages us all to connect with nature to find our inner confidence. Catherine Edsell FRGS is an adventurer and global expedition leader.

A note from Catherine…

“My wish is for you to open yourself up to the possibility that anything can happen and probably will!”

From my experience, much of our lives are planned, so much is predictable and routine, we live in isolation, separated from each other, our connection with each other and with the wonders of the world are fractured.  For these reasons, I encourage you to be satisfied with less information rather than more.

I strive to design an experience of full immersion into the beauty of the Namibian wilderness, not an itinerary of a well-trodden path.  I hope this will be a refreshing experience for you – one that will fill you, challenge you, stretch you.  I want this to be an amazing once in a lifetime event, not something that you can buy off the peg.

I offer mystery rather than predictability, I’d love you to be able to switch off that part of your brain that always needs to know what is happening next and replace it with the simplicity of being exactly where you are.”