28-year-old British adventurer, Sarah Outen, pushed off from Choshi, Japan on April 27th, 2013 and began her long, watery row across the Pacific Ocean that ended 150 days later in the remote community of Adak, on the island of the same name in the western Aleutian chain.

Adak was not the initial destination for the first woman to row solo from the western Pacific to the eastern shores to be sure. Outen had originally planned to row from Japan to Canada, but contrary winds and adverse weather caused Outen to change her plans and change course to the relative safety of the Aleutians.

On Monday afternoon, Outen came within a half-mile of shore before winds and currents threatened to dash her on the rocky shoreline. Her team decided that it would be much safer to tow her into safe harbor at Adak. She was met in the small community by supporters and the curious.

Her trek across the ocean’s expanse was eventful and memorable for the ocean adventurer, she recounts close quarter wildlife sightings with creatures such as whales, albatross and sharks. Calling the experiences exhilerating, she points to one occasion where a shark circled her small vessel as her greatest wildlife moment.

Her voyage was wrought with other perils as well. Outen was confined to her cabin for days as storms swept over her small craft, capsizing her as many as five times during her journey.

Sarah Outen had this to say about the row: “I have had some of the most intense and memorable months of my life out on the Pacific – it has been brilliant and brutal at the same time. And it has been a privilege. But I have pushed myself to my absolute limits both physically and mentally to make land here in Alaska, and body and mind are now exhausted.”

Her traverse of the Pacific was also filled with high points in her life as well. During her journey, Outen proposed to her girlfriend, Lucy while in the middle of the ocean via a satphone conversation.

This was not Outen’s first attempt to row across the Pacific solo, she had made a similar attempt to do so in 2012, but was foiled in her efforts by Tropical Storm Mawar. She said of that, “I am so grateful to everyone for supporting my return after Mawar – sponsors, family, friends at home and in Japan and my team. Without them I wouldn’t be here. I am solo only physically – there are a lot of people on my boat with me!”

Outen’s 3,750 nautical-mile row across the Pacific is only a part of her bigger mission to kayak, row and bicycle from London, England, around the globe and returning to her starting point. Prior to her row across the ocean, Outen had already kayaked and cycled 11,000 miles from London to Japan.

Now that Outen has made landfall in Alaska, she will fly home to the United Kingdom to rest and prepare for the next leg of her journey around the globe and to spend time with her other half. Sarah says, “I am so excited to be including Alaska in my journey too and look forward to continuing next year. But for now I cannot wait to be with Lucy again!”

Outen will return in the spring of 2014 to continue her journey. When she returns to the Aleutians, her and team mate Justin Curgenven will kayak up the chain to mainland Alaska. When she reaches that destination, she will once again mount her bicycle, “Hercules” and pedal across Alaska, the lower 48 and Canada and launch herself from the eastern shores of North America to take on the Atlantic in her vessel, the “Happy Socks” on the final segment of her trip back to London.

Outen is no stranger to solo rows, in 2009 Sarah became the youngest and the first female to row across the Indian Ocean. She rowed for 124 days from Australia to Mauritius in her 19-foot vessel “Serendipity.”