Adventures Less Traveled

Oftentimes cave diving doesn't go as planned, and when it doesn't, the most likely outcome is a slow inevitable death. Wedged between narrow gaps in caves with no means of escaping, divers become trapped and typically die by hypocapnia as a result. Of the individuals who are found and returned to the surface, almost none of them come out alive (body rescue). The overwhelming majority of them end up in a body bag (body recov...

More people have been to outer space than to the underwater caves that Jill Heinerth has explored. She is world-renowned cave diver credited with exploration of both the deepest and longest caves in the world, the first ever descent of iceberg caves in Antarctica, and helped create the first ever 3-D map of an underwater cave.

She has documented her discoveries through various TV series, documentaries, and books about life be...

Where are my adventure book worms at?? My 2024 reading list covering exploration, resiliency, escape, research, and everything in between! EPISODE LINKS - Charlie Walker JRE #1832: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0s6MNrgR48HxhoZpLZaJUn - Yeonmi Park JRE #1691: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2x

OUTLINE

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:30) - Endurance - Alfred Lansing

(03:00) - On Roads that Echo - Charlie Walke...

Few people on earth have ever seen erupting magma from an active volcano, been to North Korea, or been to the Mount Erebus volcano on Antarctica. One man has been to all three while pioneering academic research in the field of Volcanology - Dr. Clive Oppenheimer. He discusses the technical aspects of his field with respect to the importance of volcanoes and how to measure their activity, along with his approach to adventure and sto...

And just like that, 2023 has come and gone and the first year of the Adventures Less Traveled podcast in the books! An overview of guests and their respective topics, humorous mistakes along the way, top takeaways, and what to expect in 2024 is all discussed. PODCAST FEEDBACK FORM: https://forms.gle/UZBJT6Bm9EpoL57h6 PODCAST INFO - Podcast Website: https://adventures-less-traveled.com - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3LpB7vI - Apple ...

During her studies at Penn State, a Sociology professor told Nicole Heker to "unlearn everything you know" during a lecture in order to form opinions of other cultures through first-hand experience. She took this to heart and set off on a cycling trip in 2018 from Thailand to Spain, crossing through the Middle East on the Pamir Highway.

She has experienced the highest of highs, directing non-profit charities in Nepa...

This week we dive deeper into the story of Into The Wild, the account of Christopher McCandless along with background on the Stampede Trail and origins of Bus 142.

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Ian Borowski is an adventure filmmaker based out of Fairbanks, Alaska. Ian was quite possibly the last person to ever visit Bus 142 from the story of Christopher McCandless, made famous in the movie Into The Wild, and he documented his entire journey to get there. We discuss this, along with other equally impressive feats Ian has accomplished ranging from swimming in the Arctic Ocean, ice skating through glaciers, building hot tubs...

In the spirit of Halloween, this week's Journal entry revolves around the mystery of one man, Percy Fawcett, and his unquenchable thirst for discovery for a civilization much more advanced than our own - the Lost City of Z.

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Veronica Skotnes lives her life at sea on a 42' boat up in the Arctic Circle near Finnmark, Norway. She works to clean marine waste from the Norwegian coast and helps log trash to better track and identify their origins in an effort to further ocean conservation. She has lived in her boat since 2020 when her life was twisted upside down from COVID. We discuss her work, what it's like to live on a boat year-round, and Norweg...

We hear stories all too often of people who venture into the wilderness and don't make it out alive. Instead of chastising these people, I want to take a particular example from an article someone sent me and learn from it. A woman was hiking along the Appalachian Trail, got lost and didn't survive, despite only being a few hundred yards away from where rescue teams were looking for her. I want to break down what she did we...

Kayleigh (Kay) Grant is a professional shark diver based out of Kona, Hawaii who is the co-founder of a Kaimana Ocean Safari. She is actively involved in raising awareness of ocean conservation and the realities of the shark ecosystem. We discuss the wildfires in Hawaii, what it's like to swim with sharks, and common misconceptions about sharks and their associated risk.

GUEST LINKS

- Kaimana Ocean Safari: https://www.kaim...

Journal Entries (JE) are short, informal monologues during the "off weeks" that there are not guest interviews. They are meant to be snapshots that cover everything and anything pertaining to adventure at a particular moment in time - from news and current events around the world to behind the scenes content or general updates related to this podcast.

This inaugural Journal Entry segment will reflect on all the guests so ...

Andrew Mortensen was quite possibly one of the first people to foresee the inevitable economic destruction of COVID, working as a financial analyst for a major airline around the time of the initial wave. With graduate school on the horizon and a stroke of fortuitous timing, Andrew seized an opportunity amid the chaos to ride his bike across the USA from Neah Bay, WA to Yorktown, VA. He soon realized, however, that there was much...

Rich DeRose is a U.S. Army veteran who served overseas in Iraq. We discuss the impact of September 11, 2001 and how that parlayed into Rich's decision to enlist in the military. We cover mental health, returning to civilian life, and triathlons.

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Laura Möller and Antonia (Toni) Staacke set out to ride their bikes from Argentina to Alaska when tragedy struck them roughly halfway through. Toni crashed and suffered horrific adventure-ending injuries to her skull and collarbone, effectively ending the mission. We discuss the highs and ultimate lows of the "longest ride", what is was like to communicate such adversity to friends & family and those who invested so m...

Sean Tracy is a U.S. Navy veteran who served as a Search and Rescue (SAR) Swimmer and parlayed his military experience into other high-intensity pursuits. He is the first and only person to complete an expedition from the lowest point (Death Valley) to the highest point (Mt. Denali) in North America. He began with a 3,600-mile bike tour to traverse between the two locations, and proceeded to summit Mt. Denali once arriving in Alask...

Damian Browne is collectively defined as an extreme adventurer. In 2022, he set the record as being the first person to row a boat across the Atlantic Ocean from New York City to Galway, Ireland, covering nearly 3,000 nautical miles. Shockingly, this was not his first time - in 2018, he rowed a boat from Antigua to the Canary Islands, making him one of very few people to ever row both East-to-West and West-to-East.

You would t...

Katrina Mohr is a federal wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service based out in Idaho. Katrina has worked her way through the ranks over the past decade and has parlayed her experience into an educational blog, the5ftfirefighter.com to help others navigate through the minutiae of the application process.

We discuss the current state of the Canadian wildfires that have been raging on the East Coast, what wildland firefigh...