The Weekly Review

The Terra Australis is a seven-day, 550-kilometre mountain bike race through Victoria’s high country that finishes in Ned Kelly’s old haunt of Beechworth.

Before you hit the ski slopes, make sure your body is in the best possible shape.

If you like kiteboarding and have a spare $50,000 to splash for one night’s accommodation, then Sir Richard Branson’s private Necker Island in the Caribbean is the place for you.

Imagine a big brown river, a surfer balancing on a wave caused by a party boat along the shore. Now draw in anything weird you expect to see floating on a river and sketch in skyscrapers, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Flinders Street Station and Princes Bridge.

Francesca Carter meets the girl who skips a weekend jog around the Tan for 250-kilometre marathons in the world’s most extreme climates.