 In 1999, she became the first Swedish and Czech woman to climb Mount Everest.During 2005 and 2006 she performed a challenge called "Around America Adventure" in the lower 48 states of the United States.She paddled a kayak from Seattle to San Diego, bicycled with the kayak on a carriage from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, continued kayaking around Florida to Eastport, Maine, and then bicycled back to Seattle.