If you had one year to do an adventurer

Bear Grylls?

He might hold your interest for a good 10 months at least.

I'd feel almost guilty about shagging a national treasure, but ... Ellen MacArthur would go like a fast dinghy in a stiff breeze, I reckon ...   

It'd never last a year though.  She'd need to go iceberg-dodging in the Southern Ocean - and I enjoy boating, but not when risking life and limb is a serious possibility.   

She'd need to go iceberg-dodging in the Southern Ocean - and I enjoy boating.

 

A nautical euphemism perhaps? I'm not all that familiar with these sorts of things. Does it involve puffins? 

If we're allowed into the realms of fiction... Elsa Schneider for me then (phwoar).  

@Phoebs - not Marco Polo?  Or if being romanced by a cosmopolitan Venetian under the Eastern stars doesn't appeal, Richard Burton (the explorer, not the actor) - a cunning linguist (literally) and famed swordsman who possessed (again literally) an encyclopedic knowledge of sechsual practices across three continents...