Finding Your Feet: The Black Girls Hike Guide to Adventure

’I hope this book inspires you to kick down barriers, go on adventures and empower the people around you to do the same. That’s how we create change.’

Rhiane Fatinikun knows just what an impact a connection with nature can have on your life. Finding Your Feet is Rhiane’s essential guide to exploring the British countryside for Black women and women who often feel unsafe in remote places, offering practical tips, favourite walks and routes from across the UK, showcasing the best of nature’s beauty. Read on for compelling accounts of Rhiane’s own experiences, inspiring interviews, handy info boxes and stunning photography.

This user-friendly toolkit of a book covers:
- Choosing the right kit
- Understanding a paper mapNavigating, and what to do if you get lost
- Being responsible and staying safe
- Different types of hikes, from the local park to night time, and coastal to mountain
- Favourite British walks with handy maps and full descriptions of the routes
- Adventures along Scotland’s iconic Glencoe Pass, around the spectacular Wales Coastal Path and through Cornwall’s wild landscapes to Land’s End.

The outdoors is a powerful space, and everyone has the right to enjoy it. Finding Your Feet is the perfect ’how to’ guide to doing just that.

Rhiane Fatinikun is the founder of Black Girls Hike, an ambassador for Berghaus and Mountain Training, and regularly collaborates with the Wildlife Trust. She has been awarded the Geographical Medal by the RGS, named Positive Role Model for Gender at the National Diversity Awards, listed as one of Forestry England’s 10 most powerful women in nature, and named Campaigner of the Year by The Great Outdoors Magazine.