Ms Outen, 30, began her London2London challenge in April 2011 and finished yesterday afternoon at Tower Bridge, from where she set off four-and-a-half years earlier.
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In a little over four years, Outen traveled more than 22,000 miles around the world, using nothing but muscle power.
Outen returned to her fiancee, Lucy Allen, to whom she proposed via satellite phone while at sea in August 2013, the BBC reports. She has survived a perilous mid-ocean rescue after being hit by a Tropical Storm on the Pacific, has cycled in temperatures ranging from 40 degrees in the Gobi Desert to -40 degrees during the North American winter and had a near death experience when she was sucked under the bows of a container ship in her rowing boat.
The adventurer is halfway to her goal of raising €140 000 for breast cancer charity Coppafeel!, the Jubilee Sailing Trust, Water Aid and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
During her expedition Sarah became the first person to row from Japan to Alaska but it is safe to say that this has not been an easy journey.
“There have been so many memorable and brilliant moments, be it meeting people at the roadside and going back to their house to share food with them to the incredible wildlife encounters I’ve had”, she said.
As well as being joined by dolphins and whales on her journey, she was also confronted by a grizzly bear while bathing naked in a remote Alaskan pool. Outen shook it off, reset and set out on the North Pacific Ocean again in 2013.
She had to cut her row across the Atlantic short because of Hurricane Joaquin.
Sarah Outen said: “For me this expedition has always been about the adventure, the challenge and importantly about the learning”.
Outen started the last leg of her journey in Falmouth, England, where she was expected to make landfall, on October 22 and biked to Oxford before kayaking down to London.
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As she made her final approach on Tuesday, dozens of supporters cheered from Tower Bridge, which was draped with flags and banners reading “London’s conqueror”.
