Annie Seel (born 5 September 1968) is a Swedish-born motorcyclist who set a world altitude record for climbing to

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base camp on a motorcycle. Seel climbed to , breaking the existing unofficial record by more than , using a 20-year-old Honda XL250 fitted with ice tires. This limitation was due to the

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's ban on the importation of new motorcycles to Nepal. This record has now been broken by another female rider, Tamsin Jones, who with her partner, Craig Bounds, climbed to 5359m in 2011. Previously known as an

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racer and a leading female competitor in the

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, Seel was awarded the Swedish "Adventurer of The Year" award in 2005 for being the first woman to compete in the TSCO Vegas to Reno desert motorcycle race, where she finished as the fifth highest amateur and was

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first "Ride Green" woman eco-enduro champion in a race for electric motorcycles supporting environmentally responsible motorsports racing. During the 2010 Dakar Rally, Seel crashed into a deep tomb but continued to complete the race. She also competed in the world's first electric grand prix "

TTXGP TTXGP are the official promoters of FIM eRoadRacing, an electric motorsport race series. Founded by Azhar Hussain MBE in 2008, TTXGP started life as the first zero-carbon, clean-emission race to take place at the Isle of Man TT as teams from aro ...

2010" at Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit in the UK, riding the Morris Motorcycles Racing team's Mavizen TTX02 machine.

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