Adventure Unfiltered

Send us Fan Mail In this special reflection episode, Adventure Unfiltered host, Lorna Bray, takes a moment to look back on some of the most powerful conversations from this season  From laughter to deeply reflective moments, this season has explored what adventure really means through the experiences of remarkable guests who have pushed boundaries, embraced challenge, and found connection in the w...

Send us Fan Mail   In this Season 2 finale of Adventure Unfiltered, Lorna Bray sits down with legendary mountaineer, writer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish for a reflective conversation about belonging, landscape and a lifetime shaped by the hills. From the Munros to the wider wild places of Scotland, Cameron shares how mountains become more than destinations - they become companions, teachers and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Adventure Unfiltered, Lorna Bray speaks with outdoor guide, former elite skier and entrepreneur Emma Norton about finding grounding through adventure and real life. Emma’s journey has taken her off-piste, off-road and, at times, fully on fire — from competitive skiing to building a successful outdoor guiding business, while balancing family, responsibility and l...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Adventure Unfiltered , Lorna Bray speaks with legendary adventurer Myrtle Simpson  - pioneering Scottish skier, polar explorer, and one of the first women to ski across Greenland. Recorded when Myrtle was 95, this conversation is not simply about expeditions, records or milestones. It is about perspective shaped across a lifetime lived fully - a life guided by f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Adventure Unfiltered , Lorna Bray speaks with award-winning paddler and coach Emy McLeod   about confidence, growth and the powerful lessons found in moving water. From local paddles to the Yukon River, Emy shares how confidence is built through experience, how fear becomes understanding, and why leadership is about helping others discover their own strength. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Please consider subscribing here: @Adventure_Unfiltered_Podcast - it’s free, and it genuinely makes a huge difference. There are moments in conversation that feel like a homecoming - and this opening episode of Season 2, with outdoor guide and ethical adventurer Stevie Boyle , is one of them. Recorded on the East Lothian coast, a place deeply woven into Lorna’s own story of growin...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Adventure Unfiltered feels a little different. Rather than sitting down with a new guest, Lorna takes time to step back - revisiting the conversations that have shaped Season One and reflecting on what they’ve left behind. From the very beginning, Adventure Unfiltered set out to explore the human side of adventure - not the headlines or the achievements, but the qu...

Send us Fan Mail In this quietly powerful episode of Adventure Unfiltered , Lorna sits down once again with adventurer and polar explorer Mollie Hughes - this time to talk about her solo, unassisted journey across Antarctica. When Mollie joined the podcast previously, the focus was Everest: fear, exposure, altitude and the constant external risk of the world’s most mythologised mountain. Antarctic...

Send us Fan Mail In this revealing episode of Adventure Unfiltered, Lorna sits down with adventurer and mountaineer Mollie Hughes - who was the first British woman to summit Mount Everest from both the south and the north sides.  Lorna knew the headlines before they recorded: the records, the photos, the iconic summit shots. But she didn’t know the deeper story behind the climbs - the fear, the mi...

Send us Fan Mail Please consider subscribing here: @Adventure_Unfiltered_Podcast   - it is free and makes a huge difference There are moments in conversation that stay with you - and this episode with wild swimmer, coach and community-builder Alice Goodridge is full of them. Alice is known for those unforgettable images of ice-dipping in the Highlands, but behind the headlines is someone grounded,...

Send us Fan Mail Please consider subscribing here: @Adventure_Unfiltered_Podcast   - it is free and makes a huge difference In this powerful second episode of Adventure Unfiltered , Lorna sits down with mountain biker and adventurer Sean Green - a man whose “wee idea” grew into one of the most ambitious outdoor challenges Scotland has ever seen: riding all 282 Munros by mountain bike. Lorna didn’t...

Send us Fan Mail In the very first episode of Adventure Unfiltered , Lorna is joined by her friend and “everyday adventurer” Iona ( @iona.adventuring )  for a conversation that’s warm, honest and full of laughter - recorded after a sea swim and sauna on Scotland’s Moray coast. Together they look back at how their friendship began: from early hikes to a frozen sunrise camp in the Pentlands (complet...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast officially launches 27th November 2025 Welcome to Adventure Unfiltered — a brand new podcast hosted by Lorna Bray exploring the real, raw and remarkable stories behind adventure. From the quiet moments in nature to the bold journeys that push human limits, this is where the truth behind adventure finally gets told. Over the years, I’ve realised that adventure isn’t only fo...