Adventure Sports Podcast

Sled Dog Racing: Kristin Knight Pace Completes Iditarod and Yukon Quest 1000-Mile Races – One of 29 Women Ever, Alaska Winter Solo Dog Team Post-Divorce, Book This Much Country, Denali Wilderness Planner, New Motherhood Journey. Originally aired April 12, 2019 Kristin Knight Pace is one tough person. Not many people would go to Alaska during the winter, completely alone, to take care of a team of...

Sailing, Mountaineering: Ryan Ellison Military Pilot to Full-Time Sailor – Angry Goose Accident Ends Mountaineering Dreams, Shifts from High Peaks to Sea Level Adventures with Sophie on YouTube/Instagram. Life changes in an instant. Military pilot, Ryan Ellison, found that out the hard way. Having aspirations to climb the highest mountains in the world was completely derailed by an angry goose. Th...

Hiking, Trekking: Gilad Nachmani on Andes and Scottish Highlands Treks – Tres Lagos and Huayhuash Route in Peru, 155-Mile Villarrica Traverse Chile, Solo Cape Wrath Trail 205-Mile 8-Day Adventure Race Attempt. Originally aired April 30, 2018 Gilad Nachmani is on the show today to talk about hiking in the Andes and Scottish Highlands. Gilad describes his trips to Tres Lagos and the Huayhuash Route...

Cycling: Chris Atkin Cycles Through Amazing Region – History, Culture, Beautiful Language, Best Balance of Speed vs Foot Travel, Book It's Not About The Bike. Chris Atkin is here to tell us about an amazing region of the world, full of history, culture, and a beautiful language, and why seeing it by bicycle may provide the best balance between on foot vs. vehicle speed.  Folks told Chris he wa...

Mountaineering: Christopher Sleight on Winter Climbing in Scotland – Alps, Nepal, Canadian Rockies Enthusiast, Mountain Podcast Host Shares Favorite Cold-Season Adventures. Winter will be here before you know it but that does not stop Christopher Sleight from pursuing his favorite adventure sport, mountaineering. Actually, he thinks that is just when the climbing starts to get good. Chris is a win...

Adventure Travel: Heidi Siefken on Family Travel with Three Kids and Dog – Full-Time Work, Farmhouse Remodel, Ordinary Sherpa Podcast Inspiring Authentic Outdoor Connections. Before kids, Heidi was traveling around the world, loved the outdoors and epic adventures. Once she became a mom she felt like she had to let go of a lot of that. Determined by knowing how great the world of adventure is, Hei...

Outdoor Adventure: Tom Anderson Overcomes Drug Addiction at 17 – Using Outdoors and Adventure as Path to Recovery and Focus. Trigger Warning: this episode discusses drug and substance abuse.  Tom Anderson joins us today to talk candidly about his experience with drug addiction and how, at age 17, he was able to deal with the issue by focusing on the outdoors and adventure. Support Adventure Sports...

Hiking: Jacob Myers Thru-Hikes Arizona Trail – Desert Challenges, Driest Summer on Record, Sun Poisoning, Water Scarcity, Extreme Heat, Contrast to Appalachian Mountains Upbringing. Jacob Myers thru-hiked the Arizona Trail early this year and is joining us today to tell us all about it! Not only was the desert vastly different from the lush, rainforest-like Appalachian Mountains he grew up in, but...

Trekking: Tom Turcich Treks Around the World – 6-Year 7-Continent Journey from New Jersey, Inspired by Friend AnneMarie's Death, With Dog Savannah Crossing Every Border. On April 2nd, 2015 Tom Turcich left his home in New Jersey to embark on a six-year trek across the seven continents. The dream of walking around the world formed at seventeen after his friend AnneMarie passed. Since her death,...

Cycling: Ron Rutowski Cycles 42,000 km Through 48 Mainland African Countries – Cape Town to UK World-First Journey for 2015 Rugby World Cup, 75 Countries Total in 2+ Years. On June 30th, 2013 Ron left his home in Cape Town, South Africa, in an attempt to cycle a single continuous journey through all 48 countries on mainland Africa (a world first), with the ultimate goal of reaching the UK in time...

Paddling: Sarah Paddles Entire Nile River – First Woman to Complete Longest River in World, Facing Hippo Attacks, Arrests, Unimaginable Rapids, Civil Wars. Originally aired Sept 12, 2019 Sarah has always been involved in sports and has always loved adventure. She credits her mother for that. As a child she would pour through her mother’s photo albums of faraway places, hoping to one day go herself...

Sailing, Rowing, Expedition Walking: Belinda Kirk on 25 Years Leading Expeditions – Nicaragua Walk, Atlantic Sail, Guinness Record Unsupported Row Around Britain, Desert of Death Camels, Lesotho Rock Paintings, Explorers Connect Founder, Adventure Effect Wellbeing Conference. Belinda Kirk is an explorer and the leading campaigner promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing. For the past twent...

Mountaineering: Jane Parnell First Woman to Climb Colorado's 100, 200, Then 300 Highest Peaks – Healing Rape Trauma Since 1970s Rockies, Mountaineering for Sanity and Coping. Originally aired February 22, 2018 Jane Parnell has been hiking and climbing the Rocky Mountains since the 1970's when she discovered how the mountains could heal her traumatic wounds.  After being raped when she was...

Skateboarding, Paddling: Damien LeRoy's Radical Transformation – 500-Mile Solo Paddle for Child Abuse Awareness, 2500-Mile Route 66 Skateboard, Mattress Marathon, 3-Ton Truck Push, 7500ft Hot Air Balloon Jump, World Records, One Breath Meditation Creator. After living a life that he wasn’t proud of for long enough, Damien decided to do something radical to change his trajectory. With no previo...

Packrafting, Ice Skating, Backpacking: Roman Dial's 20+ Years Exploring Alaska – 100-Mile Ice Skating, 600+ Mile Self-Supported Backpacking, Packrafting in Vast Wilderness. Roman Dial has been exploring Alaska, America's greatest last frontier, for more than 20 years. Listen in as Roman relates exciting stories about his exploits: packrafting, ice skating over 100 miles, backpacking more t...

Cycling: Kate Leeming Cycles Namibia's Skeleton Coast – Brutal Desert-to-Ocean Dunes, Salt Water, Lion-Hunting Shores, Unique Extreme Adventure Ride. 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 i...

Hiking: Cindy Ross Thru-Hikes Appalachian Trail Solo, Pacific Crest Trail with Husband, Continental Divide Trail with Husband and Two Young Kids – Books on Each Epic Adventure. Cindy is a lifelong avid hiker who has conquered the Appalachian Trail solo, thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with her husband and then went on to complete the Continental Divide Trail with her husband and two young kids....

Horseback Riding: Jesse McNeil Rides Horse Coast-to-Coast US – 3800-Mile Pacific to Atlantic with Untrained Tennessee Walking Horse Pepper, 8-Month Oregon to New Hampshire Journey. From JesseMcNeil.com: “At 37, Jesse McNeil—at times carpenter, commercial fisherman, dabbler in real estate—decided to buy an untrained horse, make himself into a horseman, and ride all the way across the United States,...

Mountain Biking: Daniel Burton First to Bike to South Pole – Self-Supported 750-Mile Ride Over 51 Days, Aerial Food Drops, Blistering Winds, Snow Conditions. Originally Aired April 13, 2017 Did you ever think it were possible to ride a mountain bike to the South Pole? On January 21, 2014, Daniel Burton became the first person to accomplish this. Self-supported with the exception of three aerial fo...

Adventure Travel: Brian Visits All 32 Mexico States While Teaching Full-Time Virtually in 2020 – Road Tripping US-Mexico Balance, Full-Time Job Adventure Plan. When Brian realized that he was going to have to teach virtually for the rest of 2020 he saw an opportunity to make an adventure happen. He set out a plan to visit all 32 states of Mexico while teaching full-time at his job in the US. How d...

Originally aired June 12, 2017 Teresa Bruce talks about the ultimate road trip where she and her husband Gary drove down the Pan American Highway in a 4-wheel-drive truck searching for people who helped her family survive the same trip 30 years earlier when they did it in a 1968 vintage camper. Teresa's new book The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway is available at...

“One Axe Fred”, as he’s known, is a thrill-seeking dare-devil that loves a good zipline across an extreme environment. Whether that’s in downtown Toronto ziplining with Richard Branson, or taking clients across an active volcano, Fred is willing to give it a shot! Today Fred joins us to tell us stories from some of his biggest rigged lines as well as what motivates him to do these crazy feats of a...

Originally aired May 10, 2018 One of our favorite recurring guests, George Kourounis, is back on the show today. George recently returned from Nepal where he visited Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas to film a TV show. They decided to try visiting the base camp with no acclimatization. So they took a helicopter up with no time to adjust. George immediately experienced the effects of hypoxia durin...

When Henry sent an email asking his friend about joining him to finally take that trip they’ve been talking about, it took less than 24 hours for his friend to respond with a “yes”. Little did they know the media sensation that would soon create enough interest for over 30 people to join them on a bicycle tour from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa.  Not only would this journey achieve a Gui...

In 1928 a group of five Black women set off on an unforgettable journey to bicycle 250 miles from Harlem to Washington D.C. in just 65 hours. For the next three days Marylou Jackson, Velma Jackson, Ethyl Miller, Leolya Nelson, and Constance White would pedal their bicycles 110 miles on day one, 40 miles on day two, and finish the experience with one more 100-mile push. When asked, by the one newsp...