Art of Adventuring: Inside the minds of inspiring explorers

The death of his friend Ann Marie, woke Tom up to his own mortality and forced him to reconsider what he wanted to do in his life. To get the most out of his life and deal with the pain and loss, he decided to walk. On April 2nd, 2015, after getting all his affairs sorted at home on the US east coast, he started the walk. He saw all kinds of religions, landscapes, and people, experience utmost fri...

Julian Carr is an extreme ski athlete. At a young age he realized something magical: Fresh, soft powder snow acts like a foam pit or a lot of pillows allowing for big jumps and soft landings. And that's what he did. He started to jump very big cliffs. He won countless awards, won a gold medal at the X-Games and eventually went on to hold a world record for jumping off a 220ft cliff (about 70m)...

One day Erden stood in front of a map and drew a line with his finger. A line from the United States where he lived across the Pacific, across Asia and Europe all the way to Turkey - his home country. He then kept drawing and made it a circle reaching the United States again. Today Erden holds over 15 World Records, many of them due to his incredible achievement to follow this line using human pow...

Ane Færøvig (also well known under her Instagram name @popuplens) is a Norwegian outdoor enthusiast and mountaineer. Her story is so unique because, in contrast to many experienced mountaineers, who pile decades of experiences, she started out at zero just recently. Her big dreams lead her to pain, fear, misery, joy, failure, and ultimately success and unprecedented passion. Six months after decid...

Karl Kruger is not unknown in the SUP scene, as in the 2017 Race to Alaska, Karl became the first, and only person to paddle the 750-mile race course on a Stand-Up Paddleboard, completing the race in under two weeks. Despite a difficult upbringing, where the outdoors was often associated with pain, anything that has something to do with water and nature is where Karl feels at home the most. And in...

Stephan Meurisch is a German adventurer, speaker, coach, and author. He became widely known when he walked from Munich to Tibet, an adventure he covered in his book Ich geh dann mal nach Tibet (German). He currently lives in Munich, Germany. For over 10 years he walked across the globe, often alone but in the end with his partners and his only 6 moths year old daughter. After almost a decade of tr...

Running a marathon is a massive achievement in itself. An ultramarathon is - as the name suggests - a next-level marathon, often covering more than 100 kilometers. Andrew became one of the best ultra-runners and holds several world records. Especially his run in 2011 from the north of Scotland all the way into the Saraha desert put him on the map of ultra runners. Andrew is a medical professional...

Louis-Philippe Loncke surely ranks amongst the most extreme adventures out there, but he definitely put his name on the map when in 2008 he crossed the vast and deadly Simpson Desert in Australia in 35 days covering 800km, only using his own feet and carrying a heavy sled with him through the sand. Today he will share his experiences in these extreme environments, talk about his feast to cross Tas...

Since she can remember Karen was drawn to nature and the outdoors. But then something tragic happened, something she was not prepared for. Karen broke her back and ultimately became paralysed. For her, as for many, this was a shock, but then Karen found her new, old joy again. Being outside and seeing nature and the world. Over the years Karen grew very fond of her handcycle that she has taken to...

Markus Stitz grew up in the late 80s in East Germany,  a repressive country that restricted any free travel. When the wall came down he instantly felt that freedom ranks the highest in value for him, as he remembered not having it. Many years later in 2015, he set out on his journey of freedom, with a single-speed bike (that is a bike without any gears) to cycle around the world to live and a...

Justin Yoder is the founder of LGBT Outdoors , a community that connects the LGBTQ+ community with the outdoors. He came out in 2010. This was unfortunately a traumatic experience for him that resulted in family and friends turning away from him for being gay. Justin has always loved the outdoors, and felt strongly connected to the community and was devasted to also see and feel that he did no lon...

Jim Davidson is an accomplished and successful mountaineer and climber. In 1992 he and his friend Mike fell into a 25m crevasse on Mt Rainier. Jim survived that accident, but Mike, who was trying to slow down Jim's fall did not. To get back to safety Jim had to climb a 25m ice wall. After many years of mountaineering, in 2015 Jim wanted to fulfill his dream and summit Mt Everest. But then the dead...

Welcome to the Art of Adventuring podcast! In this podcast, we meet inspiring explorers and adventurers who share with us their experiences on expeditions and also their minds. Together we embark on a journey to the highest mountains, deepest jungles, and biggest deserts and learn from the most inspiring adventurers. Not only will they share their highlights and hardships, but most importantly the...