Beau Miles

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Beau Miles
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Personal information
Born (1979-12-21) 21 December 1979 (age 45)
NationalityAustralian
Education Monash University
Occupations
SpouseHelen Barclay
Children2
Website beaumiles.com
YouTube information
Channel
Location Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
Years active2016–present
Subscribers774 thousand [1]
Views74.71 million [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2020
Last updated: 1 October 2024

Beau Miles (born 1979or1980 [2] ) is an Australian YouTuber, educator, author, and outdoorsman. Miles is known as the fittest wheelbarrow pusher in his district. [3]

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Career

Miles's father is a painter. [4] Miles started as an undergraduate student in 1999 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He started to lecture at Monash in outdoor education, and later earned his PhD in Outdoor Education at Monash. In 2016, Miles started his YouTube channel for his PhD project, "Bass by Kayak" in a 6-part video series; [5] his thesis, an autoethnographic study of sea kayaking, was published in 2018. [6] In 2021, Beau quit his job as a lecturer and became a full time father and YouTuber. [4] In 2021, Beau released his first book, The Backyard Adventurer. [7]

Adventures

Miles is best known for his self-imposed adventures, which he films and posts to his YouTube channel. [7] These challenges have included walking 90 kilometres (56 miles) to Monash University from his home in Jindivick, [2] exclusively eating beans for 40 days, [8] and running a marathon at a pace of roughly one mile every hour over a 24-hour period. [9] Prior to his YouTube career, Miles attempted a 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) kayak trip around the southern tip of Africa and ran 650 kilometres (400 miles) across the Australian Alps. [10] [4]

Personal life

Miles is married to Helen Barclay and, as seen on his YouTube videos, they have two daughters together. [7] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Beau Miles". YouTube.
  2. 1 2 Hinchliffe, Joe (20 August 2018). "Man walks 90 kilometres to get to work". The Age . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Miles, Beau. "Running a half marathon with a rock and a wheelbarrow". YouTube. Beau Miles. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 "Sleep Like the Dead: A Portrait of Beau Miles". The Outdoor Journal. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  5. ↑ wearemonash. "A PhD with a difference. - wearemonash, A PhD with a difference". WeAreMonash. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Miles, Beau Lauchlan (27 March 2018). The Secret Life of the Sea Kayaker: An Autoethnographic Inquiry Into Sea Kayak Expeditioning (PhD thesis). Monash University. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 "Homespun adventures: Looking for the positives in life". RNZ . 21 May 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  8. ↑ Ellis, Philip (31 August 2020). "This Guy Ate Nothing But Beans for 40 Days. Here's What It Did to His Body". Men's Health . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Middlebrook, Hailey (3 December 2019). "Man Runs a Marathon in 24 Hours While Doing Home Repairs Along the Way". Runner's World . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Johnson, Sian (15 May 2021). "How YouTube adventurer Beau Miles' fear of death drives him to 'explore everything'". ABC News . Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  11. ↑ Benson, Bill (6 January 2021). "Beau Miles". The Sidney Sun-Telegraph . Retrieved 30 January 2022.


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