Ep. 805: Near Death on the Pacific Crest Trail - Alan Carpenter

Originally aired August 9th, 2021Imagine the endless desolation and sand dunes of the Sahara Desert abruptly falling into the ocean. That’s Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. It’s a brutally punishing environm...

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Growing up poor in rural Pennsylvania as a morbidly obese child, and later adult, left Josh with very little prospects in life, by his own account. He was convinced he was bound for an early grave and...

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Originally aired April 26, 2019Long before her son was doing some of the most incredible climbing in the world and her daughter was solo bike touring around the west, Dierdre was living a life full of...

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We had Chris on the show back in episode 825 when he climbed 400,000 feet of elevation in a single month. This episode takes it up a notch on the “crazy” scale as Chris tells us about his recent accom...

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Fill out our Listener Spotlight form here.This episode originally aired May 10th, 2021When Julia wanted to express the difficulties that others go through to just “get out there”, she decided to make ...

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Eric is an Emmy-winning director, producer, and writer whose films explore connectivity, conflict, and ingenuity at the intersection of human and wild spaces. He’s led storytelling expeditions to the ...

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Originally aired April 27th, 2020The world of highlining is often misunderstood as simply walking from one point to another across a thin webbing hundreds of feet in the air. While it is that, it’s so...

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At fifty-four, Alenka was running out of time to follow through on a dream she’d written down just after her first marriage crumbled. Years later, as she slowly rebuilt her life with her second husban...

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