Dr Max Holloway worked with the British Antarctic Survey on climate change research and in this podcast we talk about the adventure of traveling to and working in a place so few of us will visit. Max is an accomplished wild swimmer and, last winter, was invited to train the world renowned swimmer Lewis Pugh in the cold waters off the Outer Hebrides in preparation for Lewis' own swim in Antarctica. Twitter Website facebook Instagram Lewis Pugh's Antarctic video If you enjoy this podcast, please s...
Jul 02, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 28
We’ve heard from some amazing athletes in the course of this podcast, but today we hear from two 'normal' cyclists, Martina Doherty and Nigel Birdsall who call themselves The LifeCyclers. They were not aiming to break speed records yet they completed an amazing ride. Their route took them through Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, India, Myanmar, South East Asia, Australia and into New Zealand, arriving just as Covid 19 hit. TheLifecyclers website If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting ...
Jun 25, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Cameron McNeish describes himself as 'Mountain bum, cycle tourer and campervan man', in his Twitter profile. He is the best known hill walker in Scotland, possibly Britain, who has written for and edited many magazines including TGO-The Great Outdoors . He has made numerous television programmes, mainly about outdoor activities. His autobiography There’s Always the Hills ( Amazon link ) has been so successful, he has two more sets of memoirs planned. Cameron's website Twitter YouTube Facebook If...
Jun 18, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Sean McFarlane was a lawyer but quit to became a full time athlete and that’s one of the adventures we explore in this podcast. Sean talks about the business of working with sponsors, magazines, other companies, plus devising a trans-scotland challenge that sounds utterly epic. Sean's Website Instagram If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting costs by buying me a virtual coffee at www.ko-fi.com/sunartmedia Check out our YouTube channel...
Jun 11, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Calum is more than a swimmer, he’s an outdoor enthusiast, and a good one too. He completed the grueling Celtman extreme triathlon and last year set out to swim and walk across Scotland unsupported, towing all his kit. He has presenter three series of excellent programmes about wild swimming in Scotland for BBC Alba, and we talk about all of this in the podcast. Twitter Instagram Dhan Uisge - BBC Alba Scottish Water Temperature Guide If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting costs by ...
Jun 04, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 24
The name Jonas Deichmann might not be too familiar to English speaking adventurers, but in three years he set three huge long-distance transcontinental unsupported cycling records. 2017 14,000km Eurasia 64days (Portugal to Vladivostok) 2018 23,112km Pan-American solo 97 days (cutting a month off previous record) 2019 18,000km North Cape, Norway, to Cape Town, South Africa 72 days (again, a month off previous record) The film of Cape to Cape will be out in September 2020. Coronavirus permitting, ...
May 28, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Justine Curgenven is a highly accomplished expedition sea kayaker. She helped to keep safe Sarah Outen, the round-the-world adventurer, when the pair became the first people to kayak the Aleutian Islands, the chain which stretches from Alaska into the Pacific Ocean. This interview is a companion piece to Podcast 21 with Sarah Outen. However, it goes further and explores Justine's more recent adventures, now she has moved from Wales to Vancouver Island, Canada. Justine Curgenven's film of Kayakin...
May 25, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Sarah Outen circumnavigated the northern hemisphere using only human power. Well, almost. She traveled by bike, rowing boat and kayak and this is the first of two podcasts about that journey. The second podcast is an interview with Justine Curgenven, who was Sarah’s companion on a massive sea kayaking stretch of the journey along the chain of Aleutian Islands off Alaska. The film of the journey is called 'Home' and is now available (at a reduced price) on Vimeo of Demand here: https://vimeo.com/...
May 21, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 21
He is probably the world’s best known sea kayaker, partly because of his award winning instructional films, but mainly because Gordon Brown is such a good coach. Gordon is a friend but I haven’t seen him for ages because he has moved his family from the west coast of Scotland to the west coast of Canada. In this podcast we’ll talk about his early days of canoeing, teaching in Nepal, and a fantastic trip to Greenland with the late Duncan Winning to trace the history of a sea kayak. Plus we dive i...
May 18, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In the world of ultra distance hiking Chris Townsend is outstanding. 20+ books to his credit, the gear editor of Great Outdoors magazine, and the first person to complete a round of the Munros and tops (not as said in introduction) in a continuous journey entirely on foot. In this podcast, Chris shares advice for hikers tackling the 2021 TGO Challenge, a backpacking event across Scotland that has been cancelled for 2020 due to COVID19. Mainly we talk about two amazing ultra-distance walks on the...
May 14, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Kevin Woods is only third person to have completed a winter round of Scotland's Munros, mountains over 300pft high. That's 282 mountains in 97 days in the long, soaking wet, depths of a Scottish winter. Living in his van, with only a few friends for support, Kevin had to support himself. As if walking 1400 miles wasn't enough, he had to shop, cook, dry kit, plan routes and check weather himself, then drive to the ranges which looked most promising. He only just finished as the Coronavirus lockdo...
May 11, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 18
He’s a mountain bike racer who graduated from day races, to 24 hour events, to stage races. Then Josh Ibbett moved into ultra endurance bike packing and won one of the biggest, the Transcontinental. Here we speak about that race, Josh’s early racing career, his bikes and the Tour Divide Race on which he came 6th last year and had been hoping for a win in 2020. Josh's YouTube Instagram Twitter If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting costs by buying me a virtual coffee at www.ko-fi.c...
May 07, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Franco Ferrero and his partner Cath are sailing around the world, slowly. In five and a half years they've only traveled half-way and have squeezed lots of adventure into the journey. Franco is a former Head of Paddlesport at Plas y Brenin, the National Outdoor Centre in Wales, and author of the books White Water Safety and Rescue , and Sea Kayak Navigation . He's the man behind Pesda Press which publishes great outdoor sports books ( including mine ) and which Franco has been running from his y...
May 04, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The first person to cycle, run and swim Lands End to John o’Groats. The world’s farthest triathlon, entirely self supported around the coast of Britain. The fastest trans-Europe bike ride E-W. Sean Conway took all three records and we cover each one in this one hour podcast, itself something of an ultra. If you enjoy this podcast, please support the hosting costs by buying me a virtual coffee at www.ko-fi.com/sunartmedia SeanConway.com Sean's Shop Sean's YouTube Twitter Instagram Facebook Sean's...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 15
When you watch spectacular adventures on TV it’s easy to forget about the teams of people who’re filming the adventurers. Very often those teams have been led by Richard Else. A judge at Banff Mountain Film Festival, Richard talks about the people he’s worked with; the challenging environments he has worked in; the many and varied difficulties of making a great adventure film, including managing not to die. At a time when the tech need to shoot and edit a movie fits in a pocket, Richard shares t...
Apr 27, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 14
She is the fastest woman to cycle around the world. What’s more Jenny Graham did it entirely unsupported. She took the Guinness World Record rules and made them harder. Here we talk about the preparation and rides leading up to the big one, including cycling Lands End to John O’Groats unsupported in just four days during the dark, depths of winter. Twitter Instagram The Adventure Syndicate Jenny's Round The World Podcast Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Check out our YouTub...
Apr 23, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 13
For those of us who love swimming in crystal clear water, beside white sand beaches, the Outer Hebrides is a dream destination. Colin Macleod swims there daily (albeit just short dips at the moment during the current restrictions, and the Coastguard is informed). Colin shares stories about swimming and swim camping around the islands off the Outer Hebrides; about being part of the relay team that swam sixty miles from St Kilda; about being rescued from an attempt to swim from the Isle of Lewis t...
Apr 20, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 12
It’s hard to know which of Alastair Humphreys' many adventures to chat about. He has cycled the world, rowed the Atlantic, run Sahara marathons and much more. After those epics, he adapted his exploration to Micro Adventures and wrote the manual. In this podcast Alastair talks about crossing the Empty Quarter Desert, busking his way through Spain, and the tricky business of being a professional adventurer. Nowadays that seems to require the additional skills of being a writer, film maker and pod...
Apr 16, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 11
After winning three paralympic medals, hand-bike racer Karen Darke is tackling a long ride on every continent. It's part of her Quest 79, an ambitious project bringing together sporting and bikepacking, hoping to recruit others to tackle their own Quest 79 projects. We spoke over Skype with Karen in Majorca where the Spanish authorities have locked down hard. Karen's website, including Quest 79 and Pole of Possibility is KarenDarke.com Karen Darke on Twitter BBC Radio porgramme about the Murray ...
Apr 13, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Jenny Tough is running the world's mountains solo and unsupported. Everything she needs she carries and yet somehow manages to make films of these great adventures. In between she’s managing to squeeze in little jaunts like cycling the Silk Road Mountain Race. JennyTough.com YouTube Channel Instagram Type 2 Fun Ultra Run Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Check out our YouTube channel...
Apr 08, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
A UK Adventure of the Year, Will Copestake shares three great adventures in this podcast. Will sea kayaked around Scotland then climbed all the mountain over 3000ft, traveling between them by bike. He became a sea kayak guide in Patagonia Chile, before organising his own expeditions. He also runs a sea kayak guiding business in Scotland. Most recently, he just made it home to Scotland before Coronavirus closed everything down and Will speaks to us from self-isolation. Kayak Summer Isles - Will's...
Apr 06, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 8
One rider, many different types of adventure. Lee Craigie has been an elite mountain bike racer who represented Great Britain in the World and European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth games. She started social enterprise type projects such as Cycle Therapy and more recently The Adventure Syndicate. She's the Active Nation Commissioner for Scotland But her first love is as a wilderness trail rider tackling the Silk Road Race and setting a female record on the Highland Trail 550. M...
Apr 03, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 7
An extra podcast because this can't wait. Specific advice for outdoors people who’re staying active during our partial lock-down comes from a cyclist who is also a medical expert and will soon be working with the Scottish Government. Professor Chris Oliver is known as The Cycling Surgeon. What’s less well known is he kayaked for Great Britain, tackling gnarly expeditions in wild parts of the world. We talk about that and cycling across the United States of America from Los Angeles to Boston. We ...
Apr 02, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
What’s it like to film in minus 50degress at the south pole? In a jungle looking for venomous creatures? In a slot cave barely twelve inches high? On the summit of Everest? Keith Partridge knows because he has done it, including the climbing sequences on Touching the Void . He shares stories from all these adventures in this podcast. Keith is now one of the world's most sought after adventure camera operators. He has won an Emmy plus a host of other awards, including the International Alliance f...
Mar 31, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5
One of Scotland's most outstanding athletes with numerous world-first swims to her credit including the Pentland Firth, from Orkney to Mainland Scotland, and The Minch from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides back to the Mainland. Colleen talks in detail about those swims, growing up in a family where swimming the English Channel was a normal, almost required, thing to do. Plus she gives swimming tips for dealing with jellyfish. Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Check ou...
Mar 26, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Colin and his paddling partner Davis were the first people to circumnavigate Great Britain in an open canoe. Quite a trip for someone who spent most of his life as a climber, graduating to the big walls of Yosemite valley. Colin has just written a very good book about their journey, Only Fools and White Horses available through his website Soure-2-Sea.co.uk Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Check out our YouTube channel...
Mar 26, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Donnie has won the British trail running championships, a Skyrunning world series race, represented Great Britain, has made speed ascents of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and now coaches runners. Here he share stories of those adventures and in particular his record breaking winter Ramsay Round of 24 Munros in 24 hours in hash, dark, winter conditions. He’ll also share some ideas of staying fit during a lock-down. Donnie's website is GetActiveRunning.com Twitter Facebook Instagram Please buy me a...
Mar 26, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 2
As if cycling around the world wasn’t hard enough, Markus Stitz did it on a single speed bike. Twenty one thousand miles, and deliberately avoided any notion that he’d achieve a Guinness world record. His website are bikepackingscotland.com and markusstitz.com He organises Dirt Dash events He's on Twitter and Instagram Please buy me a virtual coffee and support the podcast Check out our YouTube channel...
Mar 25, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 1
