Ep. 939: The Sharp End of Life and Raising Alex Honnold - Revisited - Dierdre Wolownick

We first caught up with Sophie early last year on episode 695 to hear about the first half of this epic adventure. Today we hear the second half.How the adventure started:After needing a break from he...

14 Feb 20221h 16min

Originally “aired” May 27, 2019Last summer, Benjamin Jordan realized his lifelong dream of flying his paraglider along the entire length of Canada's southern Rocky Mountains.From Roosville, Montana to...

10 Feb 20221h 12min

Alan didn’t start his long-distance career until the age of 62! Since discovering his love for adventures he has logged over 20,000 miles in the last decade with accomplishments like hiking the John M...

7 Feb 20221h 3min

Originally aired on April 29, 2019.Erik is an experienced peak-bagger, long-distance hiker, author (of seven books), and has immense amounts of knowledge about off-trail travel and wilderness adventur...

4 Feb 202250min

Originally aired August 26, 2019From boredofborders.com: "Karlis is an ex-project manager in the field of waste management who at the age of 28 realized that visiting mountains only a couple of times ...

31 Jan 20221h 1min

Originally aired June 4, 2018In 2013, Darcy Gaechter became the first woman (and vegan) to kayak the Amazon River from source to sea. With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, her team of three...

27 Jan 202257min

Hubert Kriegel decided to sell it all and set out on a 10-year journey traveling around the world on a Ural motorcycle and sidecar. It's been over 11 years now and Hubert has no plans to call it quits...

24 Jan 20221h 19min

Originally aired June 9, 2016Ian Packham is a trained medical researcher turned adventurer and decided to circumnavigate the African continent by means of public transportation, which would become the...

20 Jan 202245min