Adventure Sports Podcast

Adventure Photography: George McKenzie Jr. on National Geographic Award-Winning Wildlife Storytelling – From Brooklyn Roots to Camera Trapping in Path of the Panther, Central Florida Wilderness. George McKenzie Jr. is a National Geographic Society award-winning visual storyteller from Brooklyn, NY, who specializes in wildlife, natural history, and conservation. How did George go from being born an...

Hiking: Rowan Smith of Summit Strength Shares Training Tips – Optimize Cardio, Strength, Flexibility, Injury Prevention, and Busy-Schedule Prep for Multi-Week Hikes. Originally published May 24, 2019. Many of us are training for something, but most of us are probably not optimizing that time and energy we have. Should I do more cardio? Should I build more muscle? Should I work more on flexibility?...

Adventure Travel: Sendy Outdoor Gear Rental in Ukraine – Ian's Team Launches Amid Russian Invasion, Turning War Hardships into Resilient Innovation and Hope for Global Adventurers. Today's episode features the story of Sendy, an outdoor gear rental company that emerged amidst the turmoil of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Ian and his team exemplify the essence resilience and determination...

Aviation Survival: Brian Brown on Miraculous Family Plane Crash Survival in Idaho Mountains – Cessna 172 Collision, Weather Ordeal, and Resilient Recovery Story. In a private flight from northern California, Brian Brown, accompanied by his wife and daughter, set forth in their Cessna 172 towards Mountain Home, ID, to reunite with their eldest daughter. Battling against sudden weather disturbances,...

Sailing: Pip Hare, 8th Woman to Finish Vendée Globe – Solo Rudder Fix in Southern Ocean, Bay of Biscay Capsize, Plus Ultra Running and Historic Three Peaks Yacht Race Duo. Pip Hare is a solo sailor and eighth woman in history to ever complete the Vendee Globe - a solo sailing race around the world known as the Everest of the Seas. Her adventures range from changing the rudder on her IMOCA 60 in th...

Ultra Cycling: Ryan Flinn Attempts Triple Crown of Ultra Distance Cycling – Trans Am Bike Race, Indian Pacific Wheel Race, Trans Continental Race in One Year. Originally aired July 30, 2018 As if the Trans Am Bike Race wasn't difficult enough, Ryan Flinn is attempting to complete the Triple Crown of Ultra Distance Cycling by completing, in one year, the Trans America Bike Race, the Indian Paci...

Skiing: Valérie Gagné, Ray Zahab, Kevin Vallely Cross Baffin Island on Skis – 7-Day Arctic Expedition Post-Ray's Cancer Diagnosis and Chemo. In February, Valerie, Ray Zahab, and Kevin Valley crossed a section of Baffin Island in the Canadian arctic on skis. A 7-day expedition was made even more impressive since Ray was accomplishing this adventure after being diagnosed with cancer in September...

Adventure Travel: Paula McGuire Overcomes Crippling Anxiety Through Daily Adventures Since 2012 – From Recluse to Thriving Trier. Originally Published August 31, 2017 Paula ‘Must Try Harder’ McGuire isn’t exactly your average adventurer. She doesn’t even own a sleeping bag. In fact, Paula spent her early years hiding from life and seeking better places to hide, eventually finding her world shrinki...

Adventure Travel: Shelby Stanger on Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast and New Book Will to Wild – Using Adventure for Mental Wellbeing, Overcoming Fear, and Living Without Compromise. Shelby Stanger is passionate about how we can use the power of adventure to improve our mental wellbeing and live without compromise. The journalist-turned-podcaster’s work has appeared everywhere from Outside Magazine...

Adventure Travel: Nick on Ocean Adventures, South Pacific Discoveries, and Epic Australia Journeys – Overcoming Self to Embrace the Unknown. Originally aired October 14, 2019 Growing up in Florida, Nick had fallen in love with water and the ocean lifestyle. However, it wasn’t until studying geography at Florida State University that he discovered just how beautiful other oceans, beaches, and islan...

Adventure Travel: Davis Smith, Cotopaxi Founder, on Leaving CEO Role for 3-Year Brazil Missionary Mission – From Amazon Raft, Cuba Kayak, North Korea to Gear for Good and Family Detour. Davis is the founder and CEO of Cotopaxi , an outdoor gear brand with a humanitarian mission of creating “gear for good”. Davis is also an adventurer who has floated down the Amazon on a self-made raft, kayaked fro...

Hiking, Photography: Andy Magee Visits All 418 US National Park Sites in 2019 – Epic Year-Long Quest Overcoming Shutdowns and Closures. Originally aired January 25, 2021 Amid a massive government shutdown, travel companies going out of business, and a myriad of unforeseen circumstances, Andy Magee successfully visited all 418 national park sites starting January 1, 2019 and finishing December 31,...

Running: 75-Year-Old Stan Fortuna Jr. Circumnavigates Hawaii Big Island – 267-Mile Ultra, 116th Race. Stan ran a 267.04 mile run, circumnavigating the Big Island of the Hawai'i, at the age of 75! He enlisted a crew of 6 leaders from California and Michigan. The prior year, only a handful people had done even a 100-miler in his age group. Stan has a deep cultural connection with the Āina (the l...

Originally aired August 23rd, 2021 Belinda Kirk is an explorer and the leading campaigner promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing. For the past twenty-five years, she has led dozens of international expeditions and remote filming trips. Belinda has walked through Nicaragua, sailed across the Atlantic, searched for camels in China’s Desert of Death, discovered ancient rock paintings in Les...

Marianne C. Bohr, published author and award-winning essayist, married her high school sweetheart and travel partner. She follows her own advice and hits the road at every opportunity. She wrote her first book Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries, over the course of the year long sabbatical she and her husband took at 55 yrs old to explore Europe.  The Twenty: One Woman’s Tre...

Mason was able to sit down with Bear again for a brief interview last week ahead of Bear’s most recent show’s final episodes and season finale! I Survived Bear Grylls plays on TBS at 10pm EST tonight with the season finale on July 13th. Bear is putting everyday individuals to the test to see if they can beat him at his own game. After spending his entire career rescuing himself from intense situat...

Today we’re hearing from a legend in the adventure sports world, Ryan Van Duzer. Ryan is the host of DuzerTV, a YouTube channel all about his adventures in bikepackig, bike touring, trail running, racing ultras, trekking, Burning Man, exploring Latin America, and traveling to every corner of the world. His main goal with his content is to inspire viewers to get off their couches and live lives ful...

Originally aired - November 10, 2015 This isn't about shimmying up a tree as a kid. This is the real deal. Grown-up tree climbing with Harv Teitelbaum. Learn about this innovative sport that allows enthusiasts to really get up there and enjoy the trees and the forest from a whole new perspective. Climb trees of all sorts and sizes from your backyard to exotic trees all around the world. Experi...

Alyssa Ravasio is the founder and CEO of Hipcamp, a global online platform that brings the sharing economy to one of the planet's most plentiful resources—land. Built on the belief that getting outside should be simple, Hipcamp partners with private landowners across the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom to create new spaces for recreation, increasing access to the outdo...

Originally aired Feb 11, 2019 Tristan Gooley is a New York Times -bestselling author and an avid outdoorsman. He has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains all over the world and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic. After realizing he doesn’t love talking about the gear and “stuff” of expeditions and adventures, he was curious as to why a...

This is the second half of the interview I had with Josh. You can listen to the first half on last Monday’s episode, Ep. 940.  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 accounts. He was convinced he was bound for an early grave and life wouldn’t amount to much. One day a radical shift in perspective an...

Originally aired August 9th, 2021 Imagine 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 environment with the only water being cruelly limitless and ironically undrinkable as it’s filled with salt. The other challenges include dodging the African lions that walk up and down the shore, hoping to...

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 life wouldn’t amount to much. One day a radical shift in perspective and life habits, brought on by the smallest comment from an acquaintance, led Josh to losing over 200 pounds and pursuing a life l...

Originally aired April 26, 2019 Long 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 adventure. From moving to different countries and starting orchestras from scratch to raising two kids by herself and working much more than fulltime, Dierdre enjoyed taking on out-of-the-box challe...

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 accomplishment of becoming the second person in history finish the Colorado 14ers in a single calendar winter. On top of that, he broke the previous record by 12 days. Learn more about Chris: Instagram.co...