Chris Watson: Storyteller & Micro-Adventurer

Adventure Diaries: Exploration, Survival & Travel Stories

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Real adventure isn't just for the pros. The award-winning Adventure Diaries brings you authentic stories of Adventure, exploration and the wonder of the natural world, specifically curated to inspire your next adventure. Hosted by Chris Watson —an award-winning storyteller and Scottish micro-adventurer—this show bridges the gap between extreme feats and accessible everyday adventures. Whether you are a seasoned mountaineer, a weekend adventurer, a solo traveler planning your next trip, or someone seeking the mental health benefits of nature, you have found your tribe.  We go beyond the standar...

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Chris Watson: Storyteller & Micro-Adventurer

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Sports

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adventurediaries.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Jonathan Kingston (Recap): Follow Your Curiosity & Explore More 09.07.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Bonus Episode Summary:   Host Chris Watson sits down with renowned National Geographic photographer Jonathan Kingston. They di...

Jonathan Kingston: National Geographic Photographer on Wildlife, Cultures & Maritime Mysteries 04.07.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Jonathan Kingston spent two years chasing a single photograph. He'd watched an old Jacques Cousteau special in a pirated TV feed in Tamil Nadu, India — elephants swimming between the Andaman Islands, silhouetted against the sky — and he could see the image fully...

Alastair Humphreys (Recap): Take on Your Local Seven Summits 02.07.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Exploring Local Adventures and Environmental Responsibility In this episode, the Alastair Humphreys encourages listeners to em...

Alastair Humphreys: Grand Expeditions & The Wonder of Local Exploration 27.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Alastair Humphreys cycled around the world for five years on a teacher's gap year he never quite ended. He rowed the Atlantic with three strangers he'd met online. He walked 500 miles across Spain playing the violin badly enough that someone occasionally th...

David Abel (Recap): Hiking To Waterfalls In Dominican Republic 25.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. David's Call to Adventure and Commitment to Change In this episode, David shares his enthusiasm for adventure, particular...

David Abel: Adventures & Misadventures - Cuba to Cape Cod (To in the Whale!) 20.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). David Abel was standing on the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the first bomb went off, fifteen steps away. He filed the story, kept filming, and spent the next year inside one of the most private and devastating human stories the city had ever witnessed — th...

Danny Bent (Recap): Cold Water Dipping & The Running Charity 18.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Danny Bent Inspiring Adventures and Transformative Charities Welcome back to another episode of Adventure Diaries with your ho...

Danny Bent: Finding Happiness & Community In Epic Adventures 13.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Danny Bent cycled 15,000 kilometres to India without a plan, was held at gunpoint in Ukraine and offered vodka, woke up in India with a beard full of maggots, and raised $600,000 for the Boston Marathon bombing victims using a baton he asked a Plymouth Uni student to...

Adventures and Acts of Kindness: Cathy O'Dowd Recap 11.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Inspiring Adventurous Lives and Supporting Worthy Causes with Cathy O'Dowd In this episode, Cathy shares her 'Call t...

Cathy O'Dowd: Beyond The Summit (Physical & Mental Realities Of High Altitude Climbing) 06.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Cathy O'Dowd has found a moving woman at 8,600 metres on the North Ridge of Everest — alive, delirious, stripped of her gloves and jacket, tied to an old rope. She and her team spent a long time beside her, running every possible option, knowing that to stay lon...

Cyril Derreumaux: Adventure Is A Vibration; So, What is Yours? 03.06.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. In this short recap Adventure Diaries Podcast , Season 2 Episode 3 host Chris Watson sits down with Cyril Derreumaux who share...

Cyril Derreumaux: Epic Kayak Adventures, Crossing the Pacific & Atlantic Oceans 30.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Cyril Derreumaux left a dock in Monterey, California, in a 400-kilogram kayak named Valentine — built in England by a retired boatbuilder who came out of retirement just for this project — and paddled, alone, 2,400 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. I...

Charlie Walker (S2 EP2 RECAP) : Call To Adventure - Talk To Strangers 28.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. An Inspirational Chat with British Explorer Charlie Walker In the latest episode of The Adventure Diaries , host Chris Watson...

Charlie Walker: Cycling To The Ends Of Europe, Africa & Asia 23.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Charlie Walker had no budget, no maps, no training, and a bicycle worth just over a hundred pounds from eBay. What he did have was four and a half years, a burning curiosity about the world, and a willingness to roll with absolutely anything. Forty-three thousand mil...

NESS KNIGHT (S2 EP1 RECAP) - Call To Adventure 21.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Adventure Diaries Season 2 Episode 1 With Ness Knight: A Recap on Ness' Call To Adventure & Pay It Forward Suggestion...

Ness Knight: First Descent Of Essequibo River Guyana with the Wai-Wai Tribe 16.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). The Essequibo is the third-largest river in South America. Nobody had ever descended it from source to sea. In fact, nobody had ever documented where the source was — for a river of that scale, that's extraordinary. In 2018, Ness Knight, Pip Stewart and Laura Bi...

Exploring Softer Adventures in Morocco (S1 Recap) with Chris Christensen 16.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Have you ever wanted to step out of your daily routine and explore the mysteries of a place so enchanting that you can't...

Albania Adventure & Volunteering (S1 Recap) With Jeff Johns 15.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. In the world of adventure and exploration, the unknown beckons with an irresistible allure. Chris Watson opens the conversatio...

Baffin Island To the Atacama Desert (S1 Recap): Adventures with Ray Zahab 14.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Discovering Adventures Near and Far with Ray Zahab on Adventure Diaries The Allure of Local and Global Expeditions Welcome to...

Cycle To Your Nearest City (S1 Recap) - With Ben Weber 13.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. In the inspiring world of "Adventure Diaries," each episode unfolds a new layer of experiences and motivating storie...

Getting Lost In Morocco (S1 Recap) Adventures with Tahir Shah 12.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. In Season 1, Episode 11, Chris Watson chats with the adventurous Tahir Shah about the transformative power of stepping out of...

Embracing the Wilderness From Alaska to Patagonia (S1 Recap) with Bruce Luyendyk 11.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Welcome to a special edition of the Adventure Diaries, where host Chris Watson and seasoned explorer Bruce Luyendyk discuss th...

Self Reflection Drill (S1 Recap ): Navy SEAL Vet Ray Cash Care 10.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Inspiring Change with Ray Cash Care on the Adventure Diaries Podcast Adventure seekers and personal growth enthusiasts, gear u...

Outer Space to Alaska’s Wilderness (S1 Recap): With Nasa Astronaut Terry Virts 09.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. Discover Adventure in the Great Outdoors with Terry Virts on the Adventure Diaries Podcast Welcome to a special recap of &quot...

Importance of Blue Space & Wet Wheels Foundation (S1 Recap): Geoff Holt MBE 08.05.2024

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). 🚨 Don't FORGET to Join the Adventure Newsletter Here 🚨😎 It will bring more people, greater stories and more adventures for everyone. The Profound Call to Adventure with Geoff Holt MBE on the Adventure Diaries Podcast In the inspiring world of adventure, few s...

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