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Lane Wallace

Lane Wallace is the founder and editor of "No Map. No Guide. No Limits." and an internationally-known columnist and editor for Flying Magazine. She’s also written six books for NASA on flight and space exploration, and worked as a writer and producer on a number of television and video projects. Her latest book, "Surviving Uncertainty: Taking a Hero’s Journey," is available as a PDF download from the No Map. No Guide. No Limits. website.

Twenty years ago, Wallace left a successful corporate career to become a pilot and an adventure writer. Since then, she’s climbed mountains in Nepal and Europe, kayaked the Na Pali Coast of Hawaii, gone wreck diving in French Polynesia, and explored glaciers in Alaska. Her adventures have also included flying relief supplies in both the Amazon jungle and conflict zones in Africa, as well as donning a space suit to fly an Air Force U-2 above 70,000 feet.

Wallace graduated with honors from Brown University, with an A.B. in Semiotics. She is also an honorary member of the United States Air Force Society of Wild Weasels and won a 2006 Telly Award for her work on the documentary "Breaking the Chain." She owns and flies her own airplane, a Grumman Cheetah, which she keeps in California. read more