Adventure Diaries: Exploration, Survival & Travel Stories

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 Uganda's Thrilling Landscapes and Adventure Sports with Jan Bakker on the Adventure Diaries Podcast In the lates...

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 Yourself Through Multi-Day Adventures: Insights from Sean Conway on the Adventure Diaries Podcast Are you feeling...

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 Micro-Adventures with Dr. Niall McCann: The Beauty of the World Right Outside Your Door Adventures don’t always have...

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. Embracing Solitude in Nature with Clay Hayes: A Gateway to Self-Reflection and Conservation In the serene echoes of nature, wh...

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 Beyond the Screen: Adventure Activities with Ann Daniels In the bustling digital age, breaking away from the screen...

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 anticipation of Season 2 of "Adventure Diaries," the show takes us back to the inspiring journeys and profoun...

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 Adventure Diaries Season 2 is coming on May 16th.  Here are some sound bites from each of the 15 guests. Enjoy.  Season 2...

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 🚨😎 Summary: The Adventure Diaries podcast successfully concluded its first season, featuring 15 remarkable guests who shared their unique stories, adventures, and personalities. The podcast extended gratitu...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Chris Christensen has been podcasting about travel since July 2005 — before iTunes even launched a podcast directory. He beat iTunes into the space by a couple of weeks. Eighteen-plus years and more than 800 episodes later, his Amateur Traveler podcast remains one of...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Jeff Johns once landed at an airport and genuinely had no idea what country he was in until the pilot announced it. That was deliberate. It's the philosophy behind everything he and his wife Anne have built with What Doesn't Suck — one of the most quietly b...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Ray Zahab was a pack-a-day smoker with no direction. Then his younger brother handed him a reason to go outside — and inside a decade he had run 7,500 kilometres across the Sahara Desert, broken the world record for the fastest unsupported trek to the South Pole, and...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Ben Weber had never skied when he decided he wanted to reach the South Pole. He had no sponsor, no house, and a neck injury that would grow more painful with every passing day on the ice. He put his entire savings into the attempt. On 13 January 2023, after 58 days a...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Tahir Shah has been held in a Pakistani torture prison, stripped naked and interrogated under floodlights for 16 consecutive nights, while people in the cells around him were killed. He got out by sinking his fingernails into a trainee interrogator's face. A few...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Bruce Luyendyk once watched the sun set over mountains buried beneath an ice sheet the size of a continent — a landscape so alien he says it is genuinely impossible to describe. He was six people in a world with no neighbours for hundreds of miles. He was also, somew...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Ray Cash Care grew up in Baltimore with his father murdered when he was 11, heading fast toward drugs, jail, and oblivion. At 17, he looked in the mirror, saw a reflection of everything he didn't want to become, and made one decision: join the Navy. He didn&apos...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show. Colonel Terry Virts has flown an F-16 over Iraq at night, laser-guiding bombs, with simulated MiG-29s on his tail and a wingman who nearly ran dry over enemy territory. He has sat in an Orion capsule on top of a rocket while a man with a red button could have blown him up. He has floated outside the International Spac...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Geoff Holt was 18 years old, working as a deckhand in the British Virgin Islands, about to become the youngest first mate on a charter yacht in the Caribbean. He ran down the beach at Cane Garden Bay, dived in, and hit a sandbar. In a single moment, he was paralysed...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Somewhere in the Fann Mountains, Jan Bakker was surrounded by three shepherd dogs — alone, no escape route, thinking: if one of them goes for it, I'm finished. He'd arrived in trail runners on a 60-degree scree slope 300 metres below a high pass, with no gr...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). Sean Conway has a list of things he calls type three fun: miserable at the time, and still miserable twenty years later. That list includes swimming the length of Britain — 900 miles in 135 days — completing the world's longest self-supported triathlon at 4,200...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). What happens when a scientist decides that studying extinction isn't enough?  Dr Niall McCann is a biologist who left the safety of academia to stand on the front lines of the biodiversity crisis. From the thick jungles of Nepal to the vast ice caps of Greenland...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). What does it take to survive 74 days alone in the British Columbia wilderness with nothing but 10 items and a traditional bow? Clay Hayes, winner of Alone Season 8, joins the show to discuss the transition from wildlife biologist to professional woodsman, and the psy...

Please click here to 'Follow' the show - it really helps get the show to a wider audience (which I really thank you for!). What happens when a single mother with zero outdoor experience decides to walk to the North Pole? Ann Daniels didn't just reach the pole; she became a world-record-breaking explorer and one of the few people to lead all-male teams through the most hostile enviro...

🎧 Follow the show here — it really helps Adventure Diaries reach more listeners. Thank you Somewhere in the Gobi Desert, Ash Dykes had stopped moving. His urine had turned black, his satellite phone told him rescue was six days away. He didn't believe he could survive six. The only option was to walk out — 100 metres at a time. That moment came midway through Mission Mongolia — a solo, unsup...