Article 5EFDQ 'I ate 40kg of chocolate': Yorkshire teacher, 21, on rowing solo across the Atlantic

'I ate 40kg of chocolate': Yorkshire teacher, 21, on rowing solo across the Atlantic

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Jessica Murray
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Jasmine Harrison, the youngest woman to make the 3,000-mile journey alone, relished the freedom of doing it all by herself

It was always during the night when things went wrong for Jasmine Harrison, the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Like the time her boat hurtled into a huge wave at 19.2 knots and capsized, leaving her with a badly injured elbow.

I was basically thrown at a wall at 20-odd miles an hour. That's going to hurt, especially in the middle of your sleep," she said. Everything happened when I was asleep."

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