Podcasts about empty quarter

Mark Evans has been leading expeditions for over 40 years and he speaks to Kenton from Oman, where he has lived for 25 years. He has very recently completed a 30 day expedition through the Empty Quarter, travelling by foot and by camel, following in the footsteps of Bertram Thomas who first made this journey in 1931. Mark shares numerous stories with Kenton, almost as if they are sitting around the fire in the middle of the desert. They cover clothing, food, hospitality, traditions, geographical boundaries and locust swarms! Mark also talks about his work with young people in the outdoor environment - the why behind his MBE. Tune in to be transported to the deserts of Arabia! Mark's website: www.exploringwithpurpose.uk Most recent expedition: www.jewelofarabiaexpedition.com Expedition podcasts: www.podfollow.com/the-jewel-of-arabia-expedition

Cada año AUTOFM transmite el Dakar, un programa por cada etapa, incluida la de descanso. En cada programa hay una sección de seguridad vial que tiene como objetivo educar y concienciar a la sociedad. El Dakar 2025 introduce un innovador sistema de seguridad en las etapas de dunas para prevenir accidentes en zonas de baja visibilidad al coronar pendientes. Los vehículos de las categorías Ultimate, Challenger, SSV y Stock deberán llevar un mástil de dos metros con una bandera reflectante roja o naranja de al menos 30 x 30 cm, diseñada para alertar de posibles riesgos. Una bandera estática señalará que el vehículo está detenido, indicando peligro en la pendiente posterior. Este sistema será obligatorio en las etapas finales (10, 11 y 12) del Empty Quarter, reforzando la seguridad en uno de los terrenos más desafiantes del rally. Hasta aquí el programa de hoy del podcast de seguridad vial y educación vial. ¿Quieres escuchar episodios anteriores sobre seguridad en moto? • P138 100 tramos más peligrosos para motoristas https://go.ivoox.com/rf/72292314 • P154 Hugo de 14 años muere en el campeonato Europeo de motociclismo. https://go.ivoox.com/rf/73574655 • P176 Motos sin ITV https://go.ivoox.com/rf/75543112 • P262 Seguridad Vial en moto No me llames paquete https://go.ivoox.com/rf/93733543 • P289 Caídas en quad o moto y la importancia de la equipación adecuada. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101146657 • P300 Seguridad vial en moto en el Dakar https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101515123 • P327 Seguridad vial en moto, formación conducción, compra de equitación y exigir la retirada de guardarraíles asesinos https://go.ivoox.com/rf/105221622 • P376 seguridad vial en moto, episodio 5 del verano de seguridad en Onda Cero https://go.ivoox.com/rf/114152759 • P470 La seguridad vial en moto a debate https://go.ivoox.com/rf/126752010 • P566 chaleco airbag moto para la atgc https://go.ivoox.com/rf/135729959 • P557 4000 motos en la manifestación motera por la seguridad vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/134812092 ¿Quieres escuchar episodios anteriores sobre seguridad en Euro NCAP? • P22 Seguridad infantil en Euro NCAP 2020 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/60410726 • P31 La seguridad infantil de los 7 coches ensayados en Euro NCAP 2020 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/63999896 • P119 En AutoFM hablamos del origen de lo que hoy es Euro NCAP https://go.ivoox.com/rf/70766776 • P192 Hyundai Ioniq 5 en Euro NCAP https://go.ivoox.com/rf/77624794 • P200 El coche más seguro para niños según Euro NCAP https://go.ivoox.com/rf/79810679 • P278 ¿Qué es EuroNCAP? https://go.ivoox.com/rf/97118681 • P320 Seguridad EuroNCAP en el Lexus RX https://go.ivoox.com/rf/104093361 • P325 Cupra en Euro NCAP seguridad made in Spain https://go.ivoox.com/rf/104841125 • P353 Euro NCAP y la seguridad de nuestros vehículos https://go.ivoox.com/rf/111970962 • P413 Etiquetas de seguridad en EuroNCAP https://go.ivoox.com/rf/121984964 • P426 BMW Serie 5 en EuroNCAP https://go.ivoox.com/rf/121989858 ¿Quieres escuchar episodios anteriores sobre patinetes eléctricos (VMP) y su influencia en la educación vial y seguridad vial? • VMP o los patinetes eléctricos (13-11-2020) https://go.ivoox.com/rf/58970634 • P29 200€ de multa a los patinetes que circulen por la acera (19-1-2021) https://go.ivoox.com/rf/63999858 • P39 El 80% de los accidentados en patinete eléctrico iban sin casco. https://go.ivoox.com/rf/64652023 • P88. En la sección de RiveKids dentro de AutoFM hablamos de atropellos de niños con patinete eléctrico VMP https://go.ivoox.com/rf/68488690 • P134 Tráfico dice que se va a poner duro con patinetes y bicicletas https://go.ivoox.com/rf/71998645 • P205 certificado para VMP y manual de características del patinete eléctrico https://go.ivoox.com/rf/81250012 ¿Quieres escuchar episodios anteriores sobre cómo la DGT afronta la educación vial y seguridad vial? • P47. La DGT recauda más de un millón de euros al día en multas https://go.ivoox.com/rf/65042824 • P68 2.880 conductores fueron denunciados dos o más veces en un mismo año por no llevar el cinturón de seguridad. https://go.ivoox.com/rf/66793732 • P72 La otra cara del rescate en carretera. DGT https://go.ivoox.com/rf/67030950 • P78 ¿Por qué nos denuncia la DGT en España? https://go.ivoox.com/rf/67470851 • P85 los tribunales anulan la mitad de las multas que pone la DGT. https://go.ivoox.com/rf/68027004 • P189 Cómo adelantar con seguridad https://go.ivoox.com/rf/76818386 • 6 puntos por usar el móvil al volante y más cambios de la DGT. https://go.ivoox.com/rf/60394281 • P383 ¿Hay que abrochar el cinturón de seguridad incluso sin ocupantes en las plazas traseras? https://go.ivoox.com/rf/115775880 • P444 Ocurrencias de la DGT en 2024 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/124103189 • P559 estrategia de país en la seguridad vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/134812303 • P447 Propuestas de la DGT para bajar fallecidos en carretera https://go.ivoox.com/rf/124482117 ¿Quieres escuchar episodios anteriores del podcast de educación vial y seguridad vial? • P6 Coronavirus y Seguridad Vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/49513283 • P169 Seguridad vial en Onda Cero https://go.ivoox.com/rf/74292123 • P125 ¿Isofix en un SsangYong Rodius? Y mucha más seguridad vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/71289331 • P196 Seguridad vial para bebés prematuros y CIPSEVI https://go.ivoox.com/rf/78652365 • P168 Sin ruedas no hay seguridad vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/74292023 • P182 La educación vial en El Enfoque, Onda Madrid https://go.ivoox.com/rf/76018355 • P7 Mascarillas y guantes son al coronavirus lo que el cinturón de seguridad y los SRI a la violencia vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/50038459 • P197 Estudio sobre la inseguridad vial en el contenido de las series en Capital Radio https://go.ivoox.com/rf/78897119 • P565 la mayoría de gente no usa el cinturón de seguridad https://go.ivoox.com/rf/135729932 • P561 4 de cada 10 conductores dan positivo en drogas https://go.ivoox.com/rf/134812530 • P541 La DGT no sabe dónde hay más de 650 millones de euros https://go.ivoox.com/rf/133580231 ¿Quieres escuchar episodios anteriores del podcast de seguridad vial en el Dakar? • P290 Lluvia torrencial, helicópteros que no pueden volar y buggies en medio de riadas. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101146767 • P291. Señalización de accidentes en la carrera más dura del mundo. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101146815 • P295 Exceso de velocidad, radar, sanción y distancia de frenado. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101147162 • P297 Muere atropellado por conseguir la mejor foto. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101514720 • P302 El Dakar 2023 da una lección de seguridad vial. La velocidad no mata, matan otras cosas. Seguridad vial Dakar https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101515334 • P301 Seguridad Vial con Manolo Plaza en el Dakar y en la vida. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101515325 • P300 La seguridad vial en moto en el Dakar y en las carreteras españolas. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101515123 • P294 Cansancio y fatiga extrema en competición. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101147100 • P296 ¿Es más seguro un chasis tubular? Biomecánica del impacto y aceleraciones en la seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101514635 • P288 Arco antivuelco o jaula de seguridad. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/100776113 • P293 Hans. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101146904 • P292. Pos seguridad después de un vuelco o un accidente ¿qué hacer?. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101146866 • P287 Arnés vs cinturón de seguridad. Seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/100775999 • P299 Conducir sin luna en la seguridad vial Dakar 2023 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101515049 • P298 Fallece atropellado un aficionado que estaba viendo el Dakar 2023. Seguridad vial dentro y fuera de la competición https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101514818 • P430 Prologo Dakar 2024, seguridad vial https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122182887 • P438 Etapa 10 Dakar 2024 competición vs vida real en la señalización https://go.ivoox.com/rf/123338733 • P435 Etapa 5 Dakar 2024, la fatiga https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122440640 • P440 Etapa de descanso Dakar 2024 los twit de la DGT https://go.ivoox.com/rf/123339096 • P439 Etapa 11 Dakar 2024 adelantamientos extremos https://go.ivoox.com/rf/123338820 • P436 Atropello de un espectador en el Dakar 2024 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122440725 • P434 Etapa 4 seguridad jurídica y excesos de velocidad en el Dakar 2024 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122440464 • P431 Etapa 1 Dakar 2024, espectador atropellado https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122229047 • P432 Etapa 2 Dakar 2024, jaula de seguridad y Carles Falcón https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122229139 • P433 Etapa 3 Dakar 2024, los 3 impactos de un accidente https://go.ivoox.com/rf/122440325 “El verdadero viaje es el que termina como comenzó, con felicidad e inocencia” Feliz viaje hasta el próximo programa. _______________________________________

Get ready for an epic breakdown of Stage 11 at the 2025 Dakar Rally! This stage is all about grit, strategy, and pushing limits in the heart of the infamous Empty Quarter. With its unique out-and-back format, Stage 11 is shaping up to be one of the most thrilling days of the rally.

Get ready for an in-depth breakdown of Stage 9 of the 2025 Dakar Rally!

De tijd vliegt in de Saoedisch woestijn. Inmiddels zitten we halverwege de slotweek van de Dakar Rally en staan we aan de vooravond van de slotetappes in het Empty Quarter. Dit betekent zand, duinen en niks anders zover het oog reikt. Laat dit nu toevallig het favoriete terrein zijn van Richard de Groot van het Firemen Dakar Team. We spraken met hem over hoe ze ervoor staan drie etappes voor het einde. Presentatie: Robert Denneman

Nani Roma ha brillado en la décima etapa del Dakar 2025, logrando su primera victoria de etapa con Ford y su primer triunfo en una década. El piloto catalán aprovechó la corta especial de 120 kilómetros, caracterizada por dunas técnicas, para destacar. Su victoria no solo es un homenaje personal, sino un recordatorio de su talento tras varios años de desafíos, incluyendo problemas de fiabilidad en esta edición. Durante el Dakar 2025, Roma ha trabajado como apoyo para su compañero Mattias Ekström y ha enfrentado momentos difíciles, como la rotura de motor en la maratónica etapa de 48 horas. Hoy, sin embargo, pudo saborear el triunfo con justicia. En la clasificación general de coches, Henk Lategan (Toyota) recuperó el liderato al superar a Yazeed Al-Rajhi, quien perdió tiempo al quedar atrapado en las dunas. Nasser Al-Attiyah, pentacampeón del Dakar, quedó fuera de la lucha por el título tras perder más de 12 minutos con Lategan en esta etapa. Daniel Sanders, Cerca del Título en Motos En la categoría de motos, Daniel Sanders continúa firme en su camino hacia la victoria general. En la décima etapa, el piloto australiano amplió su ventaja sobre Tosha Schareina, quien necesita un milagro para arrebatarle el título. Sanders, que lidera con una diferencia de 16:31 sobre el español, aprovechó las dunas del Empty Quarter para consolidar su posición. La etapa fue desafiante debido a la arena blanda y el horario tardío, que complicaron la lectura del terreno. A pesar de ello, Sanders controló los tiempos estratégicamente, terminando undécimo en la etapa y asegurándose una posición ventajosa para la penúltima jornada. Por su parte, Tosha Schareina enfrenta un desafío monumental, saliendo 12 minutos detrás de Sanders en la próxima etapa. Mientras tanto, Lorenzo Santolino sufrió un revés significativo al quedarse sin gasolina, perdiendo más de una hora y sus opciones de consolidarse en el top 10 general. Expectativas para las Próximas Etapas Mañana se disputará la penúltima etapa tanto para coches como para motos. En coches, los líderes Henk Lategan y Yazeed Al-Rajhi jugarán con la estrategia, mientras que en motos, Daniel Sanders buscará asegurar su posición y evitar cualquier catástrofe que pueda alterar su camino al título. La tensión y la emoción del Dakar se mantienen al máximo en esta recta final. Todos los podcast: https://www.podcastmotor.es Twitter: @AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutoFM Contacto: autofmredes@gmail.com

Dakari maratonrallil ootavad ees kolm viimast päeva, mis sõidetakse Empty Quarter suurtes düünides. Urvo Männama ja Risto Lepik on 12. kohal. Dakari sündmused võtsid kokku Raiko Ausmees Masinawärkist ja saatejuht Margus Kiiver.

El Dakar 2025 continúa sorprendiendo y deja un cambio importante en la clasificación general de coches tras la etapa 9. Yazeed Al-Rajhi, ídolo local, se convierte en el nuevo líder de la categoría gracias a una mezcla de estrategia, consistencia y algo de suerte. Su compañero de equipo, Henk Lategan, cedió el liderato tras un día complicado marcado por un pinchazo temprano y la pérdida de una rueda de repuesto, lo que condicionó su desempeño al abrir pista. Al-Rajhi se encuentra ahora con una ventaja de más de siete minutos sobre Lategan, consolidándose como uno de los principales favoritos para ganar su primer Dakar. Por otro lado, Nasser Al-Attiyah consiguió su primera victoria de etapa en esta edición al volante del nuevo Dacia Sandrider, logrando su triunfo número 49 en el Dakar y acercándose al récord absoluto de 50 victorias, en manos de leyendas como Ari Vatanen y Stéphane Peterhansel. A pesar de su excelente actuación, Al-Attiyah sigue a más de 25 minutos de Al-Rajhi en la general, un margen que parece complicado de reducir en los tres días restantes. En la categoría de motos, el español Tosha Schareina vivió una jornada llena de altibajos. Una aparatosa caída en los primeros kilómetros y los desafíos de navegación complicaron su ritmo, pero logró minimizar pérdidas en los tramos finales. Aunque sigue lejos del líder Daniel Sanders, Schareina mantiene vivas sus esperanzas. La victoria de etapa fue para el argentino Luciano Benavides (KTM), apoyado en bonificaciones estratégicas que lo impulsaron a la cima del día. La etapa 9 fue corta pero intensa, con un recorrido técnico y una navegación desafiante que sacó lo mejor y lo peor de los pilotos. El desierto del Empty Quarter será el protagonista de las tres últimas jornadas, con etapas repletas de dunas que prometen decidir los títulos en las distintas categorías. ¡Descubre en nuestro podcast todos los detalles, análisis y comentarios sobre esta emocionante etapa del Dakar 2025! Te contamos lo que ocurre en la cabeza de la clasificación, las sorpresas del día y lo que puedes esperar en el desenlace de esta mítica competición. Todos los podcast: https://www.podcastmotor.es Twitter: @AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutoFM Contacto: autofmredes@gmail.com

La octava etapa del Dakar 2025 en coches fue el escenario perfecto para que Henk Lategan (Toyota) consolidara su liderazgo. El joven sudafricano no decepcionó y aprovechó su posición estratégica para hacerse con la victoria. Partiendo desde la 15ª posición, frente a los lugares más adelantados de sus principales rivales, como Ekström (3º), Al-Attiyah (4º) y Al-Rajhi (6º), Lategan tuvo una clara ventaja. Mientras Ekström lideraba los primeros kilómetros y luego cedía ese papel a Al-Attiyah, Lategan avanzaba con fuerza desde atrás, logrando ponerse al frente en el kilómetro 130 y aumentando su distancia hasta la meta. Terminó la etapa con una ventaja de 5:20 sobre Al-Rajhi, 12:17 sobre Al-Attiyah y 18:30 sobre Ekström. Con este triunfo, Lategan refuerza su liderato en la general, aventajando a Al-Rajhi por 5:41, a Ekström por 28:55 y a Al-Attiyah por 34:14. La jornada fue especialmente complicada para Al-Attiyah, quien no solo vio incrementarse su distancia con Lategan, sino que también perdió 6:57 frente a Al-Rajhi. Sin embargo, logró recortar 6:13 a Ekström en la lucha por el podio. A pesar de su experiencia, el catarí mostró frustración en la meta, calificando el día como difícil y destacando la complejidad de abrir pista. Por su parte, Nani Roma tuvo un gran desempeño con el Ford, logrando un quinto puesto en la etapa pese a su rol de apoyo a Ekström y Guthrie. Mañana deberá regresar a sus labores de mochilero para ayudar a sus compañeros. La novena etapa llevará la carrera hacia el Empty Quarter, un desierto que será clave en las últimas jornadas. En motos, Tosha Schareina vivió una jornada agridulce. Aunque inicialmente se le atribuyó la victoria, la FIM corrigió los tiempos y el triunfo pasó a Luciano Benavides. A pesar de ello, Schareina recortó tiempo al líder Sanders, reduciendo la brecha a 11:03, aunque insuficiente para generar presión real. Mientras tanto, Edgar Canet destacó por su desempeño constante, ascendiendo al octavo puesto en la general absoluta, tras superar a Quintanilla y Santolino, quienes enfrentaron problemas mecánicos. Con este panorama, Lategan se perfila como el gran favorito en coches, mientras que Schareina sigue luchando por mantenerse en la cima en motos. Las próximas etapas serán cruciales en el inmenso desierto del Empty Quarter, donde la estrategia y la resistencia definirán a los ganadores del Dakar 2025. Todos los podcast: https://www.podcastmotor.es Twitter: @AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutoFM Contacto: autofmredes@gmail.com

Esto es un extracto de los podcast especiales de seguimiento del Dakar 2025 que realizamos en AutoFM. El compromiso por la seguridad vial de AUTOFM está presente en todos los tipos de programas que ofrece por eso sacamos también esta sección que va dentro de los episodios del DAKAR 2025 Novedades de seguridad en el Dakar 2025: Banderas rojas en etapas de dunas La edición 2025 del Dakar implementa un nuevo sistema de seguridad para prevenir accidentes en etapas de dunas. Objetivo: Evitar accidentes al coronar dunas, donde los pilotos no tienen visibilidad de la pendiente posterior, lo que puede provocar vuelcos o colisiones. Mástil obligatorio: Vehículos de las categorías Ultimate (coches), Challenger, SSV y Stock deberán portar un mástil de 2 metros desde el punto más alto del vehículo. Bandera roja/naranja: Reflectante y con dimensiones mínimas de 30 x 30 cm. Indicador de riesgo: Una bandera estática indica que el vehículo está detenido, alertando de una posible situación peligrosa. Obligatorio en las etapas 10, 11 y 12 del Empty Quarter, que serán las últimas del Dakar 2025. Participan: Fernando Rivas, Antonio Rodríguez, Javier Quilón, José Lagunar, Nacho Salvador y Diego Durruty Todos los podcast: https://www.podcastmotor.es Twitter: @AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutoFM Contacto: autofmredes@gmail.com

Join us for a woodland wander with adventurer, author and tree lover, Al Humphreys. The 2012 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year has cycled round the world, rowed the Atlantic and walked across India, but now focuses on pursuits closer to home. Pioneering the concept of microadventures, Al explains how exploring small pockets of nature in our neighbourhoods helps us to better connect with and care for the environment. He speaks of enabling young people to embrace wild places, and encourages us to take time to be curious and astonished as we discover new places on our doorstep. Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Learn more about the Woodland Trust at woodlandtrust.org.uk Transcript You are listening to Woodland Walks, a podcast for the Woodland Trust presented by Adam Shaw. We protect and plant trees for people to enjoy, to fight climate change and to help wildlife thrive. Adam: Today I am off to meet an author and adventurer, and there's a title you don't get to say, or indeed hear very much. He's the author of a whole ton of books, including Microadventures, which I want to talk to him specifically about, but also books called the Doorstep Mile, Local, There Are Other Rivers, Grand Adventures, Moods of Future Joys, Midsummer Mornings, Thunder and Sunshine, and I could go on and on. And I'm meeting him at a Woodland Trust site called Ashenbank Wood. It's a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is teeming with extraordinary wildlife. So we'll be talking a bit about the woods and a bit about the sort of adventures he's been on and the sort of adventures we might all be able to go on. Anyway, I'll let him introduce himself. Al: My name's Alastair Humphreys. I'm an adventurer and a writer and tree lover. Adam: Which sounds very exciting. So when you say you're an adventurer, what does that sort of mean? Al: Well, I was slightly hesitant to say that because I confess I feel more like an ex-adventurer, but I have spent pretty much all my career going off doing big adventures and then coming home and writing and speaking and making films about them. So they've gone ever smaller. I began by spending four years cycling around the world, I've rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, walked across the Empty Quarter desert, played my violin incredibly badly through Spain, and then gradually smaller onto what I call microadventures. So, encouraging people to find short, simple, affordable adventures close to home and squeezing around their busy daily lives. Adam: So that's interesting. You talk about the mini adventures. On a previous podcast we talked to the natural navigator, I don't know. Al: Ohh yes, Tristan. Well, he could tell you a lot more intelligent things than I can. He's great. Adam: No, but I think he took very much the similar view of yours. He went, I've done all these big adventures. But actually when you're doing these big adventures, it's all about tech, you know, and I needed satellite link ups and all sorts of stuff. And actually I wasn't, I was really looking at screens all the time. And he was going, the smaller adventures are actually much more revolutionary, because if you go low tech, that's a proper adventure. Just trying to find your way through a wood is a real adventure in a curious sort of way, even more challenging than doing something which sounds really flash. Al: Yes. And what Tristan's done fantastically is taking those skills from bigger journeys down to his literal daily life, hasn't he? If you, I get an e-mail from him, I think it's weekly or so and it just essentially says, where am I now and which way am I facing? And from his little clues in the local park, he can tell whether it's north, south, east, and west. Adam: Yes. No, you're right. I tried. I was very bad at that. And what I've learned, I've already forgotten. So tell me a little bit about why your connection to nature, then, how important that is to you, if at all. Al: So I had a nice, happy childhood growing up in the countryside, so as a kid I spent a lot of time running around the fields and woods and streams and things, so I suppose that hammers something deep into your subconscious, although you don't really notice it necessarily as a kid. Adam: Where whereabouts was that? Al: In the Yorkshire Dales. Adam: Ohh, God's own country. Amazing place. Al: Yes. Lovely part of the world. Yeah, so I really enjoyed that, and then my big expeditions, I've spent a lot of time in some of the world's really wild places and that's a fantastic backdrop to your adventures. But actually my – oh, and I also did a zoology degree. Although I found it incredibly boring, and now looking back I find it amazing that you can find something like that boring. But it's taken me stopping the big adventures, slowing down, paying attention to my local area to build a deeper connection with nature. And I don't know if that's partly just me getting old as well, I suspect there is an aspect of that. But whereas in my youth I was sort of cycling moderately quickly across continents and now pottering around small little parks and I have time to be astonished in a way that you don't necessarily when you're on a big A to B kind of journey. Adam: Yes, yes, there's the mechanics of getting you somewhere so challenging. Al: Yes, and you're on a mission. The mission is to go from A to B and not die, and to succeed. And that's all quite, and the backdrop of it all is this wonderful nature. But the things I've been doing more recently, then nature has come to the forefront. I'm not really doing any big, exciting mission. And therefore the paying attention to the small bits of nature and the changing seasons comes to the forefront. Adam: Yes, I did, I was just going to stop here. We're by one of the Woodland Trust sign posts about fungi and deadwood and the importance of that. We can talk a bit about that. But I was just thinking about what you said. I did an expedition across the Gobi in Outer Mongolia. I was working in Outer Mongolia, and it was, you're right, it was more interesting in retrospect. Because when I was there, we were just very concerned about the mechanics of the day. Getting through the day, making sure we weren't lost, getting food, all of that, rather than go ‘this is quite an interesting place'. Al: Yes. Adam: Whereas, because we didn't meander, you go, I think the importance of meandering and almost lost time, and in a way, I think, boredom. I mean, it was interesting to talk about kids, you know, I don't know if you've got kids, but I think there's a lot of pressure on people to keep the kids busy, get them to this class, to do this, do this, do this. Actually the importance of just going, you know, ‘they're bored now, they'll just go do something', is quite interesting. Al: Yeah. And I think that's a fantastic aspect of it, a bit of woodland like this, isn't it? Is to bring some kids here and essentially say there is nothing to do here, but equally you can do whatever you want. So go on, clear off. Off you go, go climb some of these trees, pick up some sticks, rummage around, see what you find. And that's the great thing of a woodland like this. Adam: Yeah. Do you have kids? Al: I do, yes. Adam: Well, how old are they? Al: Well, they are entering the dreaded teenage phase. So the um, it's really interesting, actually, because they're completely addicted to their screens and that would be their preferred choice would be to live in a damp, dark, smelly cave and never emerge. But when I drag them by their hair kicking and screaming into a wood like this, they're grumpy for a couple of minutes and then I just say clear off, go away and then they love it. And there's a real physical and mental transformation that's clear, when you can, once they get out here. Adam: Yeah. So I think that's interesting. And as a parent and everything, I just wonder what your take is on trying to engage a younger generation with nature and whether that's difficult, how you do it and whether we should be doing that, is that a concern of us or just, you know, let people do what they want? Al: I think it's a massive, massive concern and I also think it's extremely difficult. These screens are deliciously alluring. That's how they're designed. You know, if I was a kid today, I'd love to be just scrolling mindlessly through a thousand videos of people falling off their bikes. If it's endlessly addictive. So I think it's very, very hard and being a parent is exhausting. It's quite easy to not bother with the kicking and screaming, going to the woods, but I think it's really, really vital to do and the reward of when you get them out is of seeing how transformative that is for them, but also for yourself is really good. So yeah, I think screens are a massive problem. I think the nature disconnection of our society is a huge problem, both in terms of our physical health, our mental health, but also with our ignorance to the decline of species and the loss of wild places. So I think it's an enormous problem. Adam: And I mean you know, you're a broadcaster, you create a huge amount of content yourself. So I think there's an interesting question about how to frame that, because I fear then talking about all the trees are disappearing and wildlife is dying and that it turns, well, everybody, but perhaps especially younger generations off. They go, well if it's that blooming terrible, well, I'd just rather be on my screen. So how do you get that tone right, do you think? Al: That's a question that I've been thinking a lot about, particularly over the last year or so. I've just finished writing a book, which is all about exploring your local area, and when I wrote the book, in the early months of it, it was very much a moaning, ranting disaster book that everything's doomed and that it's all ruined. But as I was reading through my drafts, I was thinking, geez, this is this is, well, no one's going to read it for a start. But also, it's not going to encourage anyone. But as the project went on, I realised that I didn't need to frame it like that, because I could look at it another way, which was how much I personally was loving getting out into these small pockets of nature, what benefits I was getting and how much I was enjoying it. And then the more that I personally enjoyed it, the more I start to become connected and the more I start to care and the more hopefully I start to take action. So I think you're exactly right to try and frame it as a positive thing of saying hey, get out into X, Y and Z for these fantastic reasons and then hopefully the fixing the planet part will take care of itself, once there's enough people enthused. Adam: Yeah, interesting. Well, look, we'll carry on, but I said we stopped at this post. So the many dead and decaying trees you find here play a vital role in Ashenbank Wood's ecosystem. And that's a theme you'll see in lots of Woodland Trust places where deadwood is actually allowed to stay. In fact, it's not just allowed to stay, it's positively encouraged because of the fungi and the invertebrates, and then all the way up to the different sorts of animals that can live off that. So what looks like sort of untidiness is sometimes a real sort of oasis of life. Al: And this woodland here was completely smashed by the huge hurricane in 1987. So I think more than most woodlands, there's a lot of fallen down trees in this wood, which I suppose previously would have been carted off and chopped up for firewood or something. Adam: So let's, I mean, we're walking down this idyllic sort of dappled light, coming through the canopy of the still full roof of this of this woodland. So this is really idyllic, but take me somewhere else. So tell me about those adventures that you've had in these distant lands. Were there any particular that stand out for any particular reason? Al: Well, given that we're talking about trees, I spent 10 weeks, I think it was, on the frozen Arctic Ocean, up near the North Pole, which was a fantastic expedition itself, but the small detail that sticks with me now is that to get up there, you fly to Canada, then you fly to some smaller place in Canada and the planes gradually get smaller and smaller and the safety regulations get more and more lax till you're on the plane with people with rifles and harpoons and stuff. But up to this tiny little community right up in the north of Canada and the people - I went to visit the primary school there in the morning just to chat to the kids about my adventures and stuff. And they were chatting about my adventures and they were, the little kids there were amazed that I'd never seen a polar bear. And my riposte to them was along the lines of but you've never seen a tree! Where they where they lived, there were no trees, literally none above the tree line, and that really struck me, what it would be like to grow up in a place with zero trees. I mean, you get polar bears, which is pretty cool, but I'd be sad to have no trees. Adam: Yes, yeah, yes. And what was their view of that? Do they go well, I've never seen that, don't miss. Or were they interested in that? Al: Yeah, well, I guess everyone's normal is normal, isn't it? You know, they're going to school on skidoos and things like that. And so, yeah, it's just fascinating to see the different people's views of normal in the world. And before I started my big adventures, one of the motivating factors for me wanting to go off around the world was that I found where I lived incredibly boring, as a lot of young people do. Oh my goodness, where I live is the most boring place in the universe. I need to go far, far away. And it took me going far, far away to realise that actually the stuff I'd left behind is pretty fascinating in its own way. If only you're willing to pay attention to it. Adam: Yes, gosh, it sounds almost like a line from one of Tolkien's books. There you do a long adventure to find true interest is nearer to home. So I know you've written lots of things, but you've got a book just come out. So yeah, tell me, what's that book about then? Al: So I've written a book that's called Local, and it's about spending a whole year exploring only the single Ordnance Survey map that I happen to live on. So, the whole of Britain's divided up into about just over 400 Ordnance Survey maps. So wherever you live, you could go to your local bookshop and buy your local map. And what I'm trying to do is encourage people to do that and to realise how much new, undiscovered stuff is on their doorstep. Woodlands, footpaths, hills, fields but also towns, villages. What's behind the industrial yards? Like a proper exploring curiosity to your own backyard. Adam: And how much area does one of those maps cover then? Al: It's the orange Ordnance Survey maps. They're more detailed. So it's roughly 20 kilometres by 20 kilometres. Adam: Right. So a fair amount. Al: It's a fair amount, but I've also in previous time spent a year crossing an entire continent, so in that sense it felt incredibly tiny to me. And when I began the project, I thought ‘this map is so small, it's going to be so claustrophobic and so boring'. But actually, by the end of the year, I realise, wow, actually it's enormous. I haven't even begun to cover everything on the map. Adam: So what sort of things did you find there that was a surprise to you, then? Al: So what I did every week, I would go out once a week for the whole year and my rule was to explore one grid square a week. So a kilometre square chosen at random and the random was really important because if it wasn't random, all I would do is just choose all the nice bits of woodland around my map. But by making it random, it sent me off to towns and suburbs and motorway junctions and all sorts of random stuff. And I discovered a few things. The first thing I discovered was how little I knew this area that I thought I knew very well indeed. The second thing that I realised was that, yeah, of course it's nice to go out to woods and hills and streams and stuff, but also I was surprised how much I loved the forgotten grid squares, the abandoned bits, the broken down, fallen down, behind the warehouse kind of landscapes. Like what's behind the supermarket car park? And I found in these forgotten edgelands a real sense of wildness and solitude that I didn't get in somewhere lovely. And this wood we're in now is lovely, but you're not going to get much solitude. There's a lot of dog walkers wandering around. And whereas if you're sort of behind some factory and some regenerating thicket, you think, wow, no one comes here. This feels adventurous. This feels wild. No one on the planet knows where I am. I'm only 20 minutes from a massive city, so I really was surprised how much I liked the forgotten corners of my map. Adam: Well, it sounds romantic the way you describe it, but behind a dumpster or a big factory? I don't really want to go there. Al: Why not? Adam: Because it's not pretty. It's probably got some unsavoury characters hanging around there. It might be more dangerous than crossing, you know, at some wild tundra, so it doesn't attract. I mean, but it does attract you, genuinely? Al: I think I'd have agreed with you entirely beforehand. It seems much nicer to come to a pretty woodland and stroll around there. What surprised me was how rarely I saw people when I was out and about, and we live in a very crowded country. I live in a crowded corner of the country, and yet once I was off meandering, once you're slightly off the beaten track, it felt like I often had the place to myself. In terms of being scared, I never had any problems at all. But I was very conscious that I'm a six-foot-tall white man who's quite good at running and that the countryside in general is not equally accessible to everyone. That really struck home to me in the year, how the sort of privilege I have of being able to essentially wander wherever I want. And the worst thing that's happened, someone will say go away and I go, oh, I'm terribly sorry and be all sort of posh and cheerful and it'll be fine and that's not fair, and it's not right that there's that inequality. Adam: I wonder what you feel because we're talking now, a little after there was a big fuss in newspapers about Kirsty Allsop as children or a child who went off travelling and I think he was 16 or something like that. And it raised the debate whether that's right or wrong and people have their own views, it raised the debate about adventure, what it is, how much freedom we should give younger people. And there were lots of comments, you know, look back a generation, my parents' generation, you know, people of 17, 18 were fighting in wars. You know, the idea of going on Eurorail doesn't sound that adventurous by comparison. But it does engage with the natural world, doesn't it? You've done very adventurous things. What do you think about our position on safety now? The sort of vibe about that? Al: I think a relevant aspect of that discussion what we're talking about today is if you look at the roaming distances that kids have from home and you can see statistical maps of this online of how far our grandparents are allowed to go from home, you know, they'd get on their bicycle with a pickled egg and off they'd go for a month and then come home for their tea. All that sort of stuff. When I was a kid, I was basically in the Yorkshire Dales. I was basically allowed to go wherever I wanted, and then I'd just come home when I was hungry. And of course, I had no cell phone. And then kids today would not be generally allowed that sort of thing, and they're kept very much closer to home. And I think that trusting young people in wild places is an important thing to do. Adam: Well, on that note of wild places and adventure, we talked a lot about maps and if you want to visit Ashenbank Wood and are looking for a map, it is grid reference TQ 675692, map reference explorer 163, and OS land ranger 177. Good luck with finding this particular wood. I hope you enjoy it. And until next time, of course, happy wandering. Thank you for listening to the Woodland Trust Woodland Walks. Join us next month when Adam will be taking another walk in the company of Woodland Trust staff, partners and volunteers. And don't forget to subscribe to the series on iTunes or wherever you are listening. And do give us a review and a rating. If you want to find out more about our woods and those that are close to you, check out the Woodland Trust website. Just head to the visiting woods pages. Thank you.

Send us a textIn this episode, Ricardo Karam engages with Maxime Chaya, Lebanon's foremost sportsman and adventurer. Born in Beirut in 1961, Maxime's early life was marked by the Lebanese Civil War, leading his family to seek refuge abroad. He pursued his education across Greece, France, Canada, and the United Kingdom, ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science with honors from the London School of Economics.Maxime's passion for extreme sports led him to achieve remarkable feats. In May 2006, he became the first Lebanese to summit Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge, the highest peak on each continent. He further distinguished himself by skiing unassisted to both the South Pole in 2007 and the North Pole in 2009, becoming the first from the Middle East to reach these milestones.Beyond mountaineering, Maxime set a world speed record in 2013 by rowing across the Indian Ocean from Australia to Mauritius in 57 days, 15 hours, and 49 minutes. In 2016, he and his teammate became the first to cross the Empty Quarter desert on bicycles, covering approximately 1,500 kilometers in 21 days.Maxime's journey is a testament to human endurance and the pursuit of excellence. His story continues to inspire many to overcome challenges and reach new heights.Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more inspiring stories!في هذه الحلقة، يتحاور ريكاردو كرم مع مكسيم شعيا، الرياضي والمغامر الأول في لبنان. وُلد مكسيم في بيروت عام 1961، واتسمت حياته المبكرة بالحرب الأهلية اللبنانية، مما دفع عائلته إلى اللجوء إلى الخارج. تابع تعليمه في اليونان وفرنسا وكندا والمملكة المتحدة، وحصل في النهاية على بكالوريوس العلوم مع مرتبة الشرف من كلية لندن للاقتصاد.قاده شغف مكسيم بالرياضات الخطرة إلى تحقيق إنجازات رائعة. في مايو 2006، أصبح أول لبناني يتسلق قمة جبل إيفرست، حيث أكمل تحدي القمم السبع، وهي أعلى قمة في كل قارة. كما تميّز كذلك بالتزلج دون مساعدة إلى القطب الجنوبي في عام 2007 والقطب الشمالي في عام 2009، ليصبح أول لبناني من الشرق الأوسط يصل إلى هذين الإنجازين.وبعيداً عن تسلق الجبال، سجّل مكسيم رقماً قياسياً عالمياً في عام 2013 من خلال التجديف عبر المحيط الهندي من أستراليا إلى موريشيوس في 57 يوماً و15 ساعة و49 دقيقة. وفي عام 2016، أصبح هو وزميله في الفريق أول من يقطع صحراء الربع الخالي على الدراجات الهوائية قاطعين مسافة 1500 كيلومتر تقريباً في 21 يوماً.تُعد رحلة مكسيم شهادة على قدرة الإنسان على التحمل والسعي وراء التميز. ولا تزال قصته تلهم الكثيرين للتغلب على التحديات والوصول إلى آفاق جديدة.لا تنسى الإعجاب والمشاركة والاشتراك للحصول على المزيد من القصص الملهمة!

Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer and Author. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.More recently Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. Alastair was named as one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the year for 2012. In 2023, The Royal Geographical Society gave Alastair the Ness Award for ‘his long-standing contributions to promoting a greater understanding of our world and wider public engagement with the outdoors.'Alastair has written 15 books about his adventures. His most recent book "Local"  reflects a year he spent investigating the small map around his own home.  As Alastair states, in doing so he discovers more about the natural world than in all his years in remote environments and issues such as the state of British nature, land use, and freedom to roam the countryside really hit home. In "Local" whilst he celebrates time spent outdoors, the book is also a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep.In this episode, Alastair shares his motivation for exploring locally, the unexpected benefits he experienced in doing so and his perspective of why undertaking this type of exploration is so vital to protect the natural environment. He also shares his advice for anyone looking to undertake a local everyday adventure for themselves. Find out more about Alastair: Website: https://alastairhumphreys.com/Instagram: @al_humphreysFacebook: Alastair Humphreys You tube: @al_humphreysX: @Al_HumphreysI hope you have enjoyed this episode of The Everyday Adventure Podcast! To keep up to date with the latest news, follow us: Instagram: @everydayadventurepod @resilienceatwork Linkedin: @Nicki-bassWebsite: www.resiliencework.co.ukTEDx: The Life Changing Power of Everyday AdventuresFor Media & Speaking Enquiries please contact Tracey Duke at 360 Speakers: tracey@traceyduke.comThe Everyday Adventure Podcast is proud to be part of the Tremula Network of Adventure and Outdoor Podcasts @tremulanetworkhttps://www.tremula.network

Not since the classic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has there been such a call to adventure. Whether you're an armchair traveler, an occasional tourist, a seasoned globe-trotter, a daring adventurer, or an intrepid explorer, there's something for you in LOOKING FOR LEGENDS: Let Us Take You Somewhere You've Never Been Before, and Introduce You to Our Friends (Whole Wide World Publishing; April 2, 2024).Joined at the heart by a love for travel and adventure, Scott and Tarantino provide witty commentary as they circumnavigate the globe in a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part good, old fashioned, action story. These married travelers spanned the globe for 25 years and discovered that travel is more than anticipating and planning the journey, reaching the destination, or seeing the sights. It's about the people you meet along the way. Within these pages are the incredible individuals they found—the towering legends who truly lived.Complete with original, hand-drawn maps and more than 150 images, LOOKING FOR LEGENDS takes you to places that exceed your wildest dreams. Trek through the Empty Quarter with Wilfred Thesiger. Dance the tango with Ricardo Guiraldes. Unlock the secrets of the Rosetta Stone with Jean-François Champollion. Discover an invisible country across the top of the world with Knud Rasmussen. Find the 15th Eight-Thousander with Reinhold Messner. Live through hell with Anna Akhmatova. Hunt a man-eating tiger with Jim Corbett. Ingest the Plants of the Gods with Richard Evans Schultes. And many more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Not since the classic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has there been such a call to adventure. Whether you're an armchair traveler, an occasional tourist, a seasoned globe-trotter, a daring adventurer, or an intrepid explorer, there's something for you in LOOKING FOR LEGENDS: Let Us Take You Somewhere You've Never Been Before, and Introduce You to Our Friends (Whole Wide World Publishing; April 2, 2024).Joined at the heart by a love for travel and adventure, Scott and Tarantino provide witty commentary as they circumnavigate the globe in a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part good, old fashioned, action story. These married travelers spanned the globe for 25 years and discovered that travel is more than anticipating and planning the journey, reaching the destination, or seeing the sights. It's about the people you meet along the way. Within these pages are the incredible individuals they found—the towering legends who truly lived.Complete with original, hand-drawn maps and more than 150 images, LOOKING FOR LEGENDS takes you to places that exceed your wildest dreams. Trek through the Empty Quarter with Wilfred Thesiger. Dance the tango with Ricardo Guiraldes. Unlock the secrets of the Rosetta Stone with Jean-François Champollion. Discover an invisible country across the top of the world with Knud Rasmussen. Find the 15th Eight-Thousander with Reinhold Messner. Live through hell with Anna Akhmatova. Hunt a man-eating tiger with Jim Corbett. Ingest the Plants of the Gods with Richard Evans Schultes. And many more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Join Michelle and Liz for a riveting conversation with Janey McGill as she shares her extraordinary experience leading an expedition with two Omani women across the Empty Quarter, the world's largest sand desert. Janey reflects on the challenges faced, personal growth attained, and the bonds forged with her team. Through her journey, she overcame imposter syndrome, emphasised the importance of setting personal goals, and shattered societal expectations. Janey's film, "Arrowhead," captures the expedition's essence, promoting unity and breaking stereotypes. The conversation also explores the significance of appreciating surroundings, taking breaks, and prioritising self-care for overall well-being.Key Insights:

A edición 46o do Dakar é a quinta que se celebra en Arabia Saudita e chegou ao seu fin tras máis de 4.700 quilómetros de especiais e un total de case 8.000 quilómetros que puxeron a proba aos pilotos e copilotos desde a antiga cidade de AlUla ata as beiras do mar Vermello en Yanbu, pasando polo océano de dunas do Empty Quarter. Neste Dakar participou o estradense Javier Campos, cunha KTM. Hoxe falamos con el. Javier Campos sempre foi un namorado do dakar e das motos. empezou a forxar a súa afección polas dúas rodas con motos de trial e fai máis dunha década empezou a penetrarse no mundo do trail. a través das súas viaxes a marrocos foi namorándose da navegación e non tardou en disputar as súas primeiras probas a nivel rexional. desta forma foi como, aos poucos, o soño afastado de competir no dakar foise facendo realidade. en 2021 tomou a decisión de ir ao dakar e empezou un proxecto serio, coas probas necesarias de preparación para clasificarse. competiu no hellas rally e no rally de marrocos de 2022. lograra a clasificación, pero preferiu esperar ata o dakar 2024 para debutar na proba máis dura do mundo en moto cun pouco máis de experiencia. A categoría raíña, asóciase aos pilotos coa imaxe do motorista solitario, coa posta de sol como pano de fondo, que busca o camiño nun océano de dunas. A gran maioría de pilotos de motos son afeccionados. Con todo, o proceso de selección é sumamente estrito. Para ser aceptado no Dakar, esíxese aos candidatos terminar unha proba do Campionato Mundial de Rally Cros Country da FIM ou unha das carreiras “Dakar Series”. "Coa cantidade de accidentes que houbo, ver o risco que se corre nunha carreira destas é inclible". "A etapa de 48 horas, de 600 quilómetros de dunas, foi demoledora". "No vivac ás veces non hai demasiado tempo,pero sempre buscas 5 minutos para visitar aos amigos e interesarte por eles". Un total de 239 vehículos (de 340 inicial) chegaron a Yanbu, entre eles 96 motos (de 132), entre as que chegou o dorsal 130, o noso amigo e veciño Javier Campos, 7 quads (de 10), 55 coches Ultimate (de 70), 3 Stock (de 3), 29 Challengers (de 42), 28 SSV (de 36) e 21 camións (de 47). Entre eles, os pilotos e copilotos de 182 vehículos puideron subir ao podio final para recibir unha medalla de 'finisher', mentres que os demais non completaron todo o percorrido. Os grandes vencedores da edición 2024 souberon sacar partido, cada un á súa maneira, de equipos capaces de construír un éxito baseado na súa forza colectiva. Entre os favoritos de Monster Energy Honda, o estadounidense Ricky Brabec logra un segundo título tras a súa vitoria en 2020, resistindo a Ross Branch coa súa Hero, primeira moto india no podio do Dakar, que Adrien Van Beveren alcanza por primeira vez na súa carreira (terceiro posto), tamén cunha Honda. Patrocinadores: Anca, Bamarti, Enxuro.com, Carvil, Aluminios Campos, Cervexeria Eureka, Adhesivos Embarrados, Adventure Galicia, Ferser, Instalaciones Arca, Helvetia, Inversia Insurance, SPL, Artec, Concello da Estrada, Agencia de Seguros Reale La Estrada, Vaca Premium, Sima, B&T abogados Máis Información JAVIER CAMPOS: ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/javier.campos.35175633 ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/javicampostrail/?img_index=1 ️ "SUSCRÍBETE" ao podcast MÁIS ENTREVISTAS: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-salta-da-cama_sq_f1323089_1.html Máis Información e outros contidos: ✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PabloChichas ✔️Twitter: https://twitter.com/pablochichas ✔️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pablochichas/ ✔️Clubhouse: @pablochichas ✔️Twich: https://www.twitch.tv/pablochichas

The 2024 Dakar Rally "48-Hour Chrono" stage kicked off today and dished out more challenges for the Dakar Rally competitors. Top Rally GP competitors lead out the day into Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter to remote bivouacs that are spread out along the course. A sea of endless dunes met the racers head-on and some bowed out after technical issues. Today's race was the first part of a two-day single stage. And HRC Monster Energy Honda's Adrien Van Beveren leads at today's rest stops with impressive sand speed over more than 500km of racing. AVB's Honda teammate Ricky Brabec came in to the bivouac hot on his heels to sit in second (Virtually) and Red Bull KTM's Toby Price is right behind him in third. Honda's Skyler Howes left the race today after only ~40KM due to a techincal issue with his bike and yesterday's stage winner Pablo Quintanilla - poised to make up big time today after a reversed starting order - ran out of fuel 10km before the first refueling of the day, an error that dashes his hopes of overall victory. Check in with Malle Moto competitors with us today, as well as a chat with Women's class leader and enduro champion Jane Daniels on the Fantic machine. Cheers! Play the Dakar Rally Daily Fantasy Derby Today for FREE (thanks Motominded): https://chainslayer.com/dakar Follow and communicate with us via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dakar_rally_daily/ Visit our partnersCycle News (2024 Dakar Rally Coverage)https://www.cyclenews.com/2023/01/article/2024-dakar-rally-results/ KLIMKTMHusqvarnaGASGASRally NavigatorMotomindedGiant LoopFasst Co.High Desert AdventuresJimmy Lewis Off Road TrainingTaco MotoPeak Design Dakar Rally Daily is produced and edited by Jesse Ziegler, and hosted by Quinn Cody and Jesse Ziegler.

Quinta etapa en el Dakar 2024. La quinta jornada del Dakar 2024 consta de una especial 118 kilometros y un total de 727 kilometros, entre las localidades de AAl-Hofuf y Shubaytah con los primeros tramos de las dunas del mitico desierto Empty Quarter. Carlos Sainz, ha regalado unos minutos en la etapa, para no salir de los primeros en la proxima etapa y Nasser, ha apostado por ganarla para conseguir reengancharse en la cabeza de la carrera, a pesar de tener que abrir mañana la etapa más importantre del Dakar, el maraton de 48 horas. En este programa especial, analizamos, coméntanos y explicamos como ha sido esta segunda etapa, los momentos más interesantes y especiales de la etapa, los secretos de la carrera, entrevistas desde el propio Dakar 2024 y testimonios de los pilotos protagonistas del día. No puedes, ni debes perderte, esta etapa junto a nosotros: Nacho Salvador @_NachoSalvador Diego Durruty @diegodurruty Javier Quilon @JaviviQuilon Fernando Rivas @rivasportauto Jose Lagunar @JoseLagunar Antonio R. Vaquerizo @Antortxa AutoFM es el programa de radio del motor más escuchado de España. Somos lideres en el formato podcast y estamos presentes en iVoox, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iTunes, TuneIn, Radios de España... En AutoFM analizamos las últimas novedades del mundo del motor, probamos y opinamos sobre los nuevos automóviles que llegan al mercado. #podcast #podcastdecoches #podcastmotor #videopodcastcoches #coches #automovil #motor

Cuarta etapa en el Dakar 2024. La cuarta jornada del Dakar 2024 ha sido realmente rápida y muy dificultosa al nivel de navegación. El Dakar 2024 esta siendo un aventura increíble, en esta cuarta etapa un terreno más domable, pero eso no significa más fácil o sencillo, te contamos las momentos más críticos de la carrera más dura, donde Loeb ha ganado la etapa, y Carlos Sainz sigue luchando por el liderato. En este programa especial, analizamos, coméntanos y explicamos como ha sido esta segunda etapa, los momentos más interesantes y especiales de la etapa, los secretos de la carrera, entrevistas desde el propio Dakar 2024 y testimonios de los pilotos protagonistas del día. No puedes, ni debes perderte, esta etapa junto a nosotros: Nacho Salvador @_NachoSalvador Diego Durruty @diegodurruty Javier Quilon @JaviviQuilon Fernando Rivas @rivasportauto Jose Lagunar @JoseLagunar Antonio R. Vaquerizo @Antortxa AutoFM es el programa de radio del motor más escuchado de España. Somos lideres en el formato podcast y estamos presentes en iVoox, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iTunes, TuneIn, Radios de España... En AutoFM analizamos las últimas novedades del mundo del motor, probamos y opinamos sobre los nuevos automóviles que llegan al mercado. #podcast #podcastdecoches #podcastmotor #videopodcastcoches #coches #automovil #motor

Geoff discovers a documentary that shines a light on one of the most remote and mysterious places on Earth, The Empty Quarter. Sponsored by Katos Koffee http://katoskoffee.com code SOALRIGHT10 , Shady Rays http://shadyrays.com – Black Friday sale active from 11/17 – 11/30

Geoff, Gavin, and Andrew talk about physical calendars, fountain pens, joined up writing (aka cursive), the Empty Quarter, bean hole, Andrews matrix chair moment, UFC 4, brushing your teeth in the dark, Key West, Sloppy Joe's, the very inexperienced boat captain, sleep spaghetti, stepping on sea urchins, the tiny shipwreck, leaving Gavin behind in the ocean, dirt & worms, getting recognized in public, would you shoot a dog for $175M or strangle Andrew to death once a month?, the ghost tour curse, jet skiing, pleading the second and more. Subscribe to the LetsPlay channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxctb0jr8vwa4Do6c6su0Q  Sponsored by HelloFresh http://hellofresh.com/50face Code 50face , BetterHelp http://betterhelp.com/face , Katos Coffee http://katoskoffee.com Code face10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Re-join Mark and The Heart of Arabia Expedition Team at the ancient site of Old Diriyah, the birthplace of the first Saudi state, historical crossroads of pilgrims and traders. It is also where Philby left Riyadh behind and followed the Pilgram Road west to Jeddah. The terrain, climate and geology of the second leg of the expedition are very different to the first leg in the eastern deserts and Empty Quarter and this brings with it different challenges for the team. But their connection to Philby continues to grow and Mark immerses himself in Philby's writing as they travel. For his original Heart of Arabia Expedition Philby was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Founders Medal in recognition of the field data he returned to London. Today's RGS President, Nigel Clifford explains how significant a contribution to our understanding of Arabia's geography Philby made. And finally Mark explains why the whole team - Reem, Ana, Alan and himself - spent several hours walking in circles looking like policemen! Expedition website: The Heart of Arabia Expedition Follow the Expedition on social: Twitter Instagram Facebook The Heart of Arabia Expedition podcast is produced by Adventurous Audio

After some time to reflect on the Heart of Arabia Expedition Mark looks back over some of the key moments of the early parts of leg one of the expedition, a place Philby described as being the threshold of Arabia. Following the celebration of the expedition's launch, Mark, Reem, Ana-Maria and Alan are leaving Al Uqayr to start retracing Philby's route across Arabia; they visit the desert oases of Al Ahsa and Al Hofuf, venture into The Empty Quarter and consider their new nomadic life in the desert. Taking a slight detour from the desert, Mark introduces us to Mike Robinson of The Royal Scottish Geographical Society to explain how the Heart of Arabia Expedition is supporting their Young Generation Fund, designed to give more young Scottish people life opportunities in Geography and exploration, and increase their awareness and knowledge of the world around us. This quest for knowledge that the expedition is supporting was just as vital to Philby as it is to today's expedition team members. Expedition website: The Heart of Arabia Expedition Follow the Expedition on social: Twitter Instagram Facebook The Heart of Arabia Expedition podcast is produced by Adventurous Audio

The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge has wrapped after five fast, sandy stages across the Empty Quarter of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula and the country of the United Arab Emirates. After over 17 hours of racing nearly 2,000 kilometers, Monster Energy Honda Team's Adrian Van Beveren took the win by 4:18 over Husqvarna Factory Racing's Luciano Benavides and Red Bull KTM Factory Racing's Toby Price (5:13 out of the lead).In this show we go through the overall rankings, stage-by-stage results, and provide unique insight into the race conditions, terrain, scale and competitors' efforts. Enjoy the wrap-up show from Abu Dhabi!

Etapa 11 SHAYBAH - EMPTY QUARTER MARATHON Distancia total 427 km enlace y especial 274 km Cuarta etapa consecutiva, quinta en total, para Sebastien Loeb con el BRX de Prodrive. Además lo ha hecho en la primera jornada del mar de dunas del Empty Quarter (cuarto vacío) donde las condiciones no han sido tan complicadas como nos adelantaba la organización. Entrevistamos en este programa a Carlos Checa de Astara, al copiloto español Armand Monleón de MINI T1+, a Cristina Gutierrez, al mostrad Lorenzo Santolino y al piloto de motos de Honda Adrien Van Beveren. Nos acompaña el experto en rallyes del diario Marca Nacho Villarín. Clasificación provisional de la etapa 11 del Dakar 2023 en coches: 1. Sebastien Loeb/Fabian Lurquin (BRX) 2h 56:12 2. Guerlain Chicherit/Alex Winocq (BRX) a 2:16 3. Mattias Ekstrom/Emil Bergkvist (Audi) a 2:26 3. Lucas Moraes/Timo Gottschalk) a 6:12 4. Nasser Al-Attiyah/Mathieu Baumel (Toyota) a 6:42 ... 6. Hen Lategan/Bred Cummings (Toyota) a 7:22 11. Kuba Przygonsky/Armand Monleón (Mini) a 11:28 12. Juan Yacopini/Dani Oliveras (Toyota) a 14:38 27. Carlos Checa/Dani Sola (Astara) a 42:53 35. Laia Sanz/Maurizio Gerini (Astara) a 1h 10:13 44. Isidre Esteve/Txema Villalobos (Toyota) a 3h 26:50 Puedes escuchar todos los programas y entrevistas del Dakar en la lista Dakar 2023: https://www.ivoox.com/dakar-2023_bk_list_10413539_1.html AutoFM en el Dakar son: Diego Durruty: https://twitter.com/diegodurruty Fernando Rivas https://twitter.com/rivasportauto Antonio Rodriguez Vaquerizo: https://twitter.com/Antortxa José Lagunar https://twitter.com/JoseLagunar Nacho Salvador: https://twitter.com/_NachoSalvador Nacho Villarín: https://twitter.com/NachoVillarin Web Dakar: https://www.dakar.com/es/ Web Audi: https://www.audi.es/es/web/es.html Puedes seguirnos en nuestra web: https://www.podcastmotor.es Twiter: https://twitter.com/AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC57czZy-ctfV02t_PeNXCAQ Contacto: info@autofm.es

We get into Stage 8 of the 2023 Dakar Rally today with insight from stage winner Ross Branch as he brings Hero Motosports their second Dakar Rally stage win!. We also hear from a resurgent Daniel Sanders, a flying Mason Klein and Honda's Adrien VanBeveren who is happy with his pace.Racing is back, right before rest day, and the results are starting to shape up for some BIG days in the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia in the coming week. The top five general classification standings are covered by less than three minutes! Top three? Only 13 seconds! Tune in and enjoy. Don't forget you can play fantasy dakar racing at Dakar Fantasy Derby for FREE and you can win some great prizes. Start today at: www.chainslayer.com/dakarAnd, you can support the show by simply buying a cool t-shirt! hit up www.bivouacrally.com/shop today!

Começou neste sábado (31) o Rally Dakar 2023. Até 15 de janeiro, 820 competidores, de 68 nacionalidades, vão cruzar as areias da Arábia Saudita. A RFI Brasil conversou com Gustavo Gugelmin, um dos brasileiros que disputam a maior competição off-road do mundo. “É a fórmula 1 do Rally, a fórmula 1 do off-road, a prova mais dura do planeta. São dunas gigantes, deserto, terrenos variados, lama, frio, tem poeira, temos que andar no meio de leito de rio seco”, conta. “É um rally de resistência, você não pode ter erro. Tem que estar em sincronia com o seu equipamento, com corpo e mente, porque passamos longas horas dentro do carro, de 8 a 12 horas todos os dias. Como é um terreno off-road não sabemos o que virá pela frente”, explica sobre os sacrifícios exigidos na prova. A 45ª edição do evento reúne 455 veículos, entre motos, carros, caminhões, quadriciclos e outras modalidades. Entre os participantes, há 54 mulheres, sendo que cinco equipes são totalmente femininas. Os corredores enfrentarão quase 8.600 quilômetros, divididos em 14 etapas, atravessando o território saudita de costa a costa, com 70% do percurso inédito. A disputa começa no Sea Camp, às margens do Mar Vermelho e segue em direção à capital, Riad. Cada etapa terá, em média, 450 quilômetros por dia. Os desafios são grandes, como as baixas temperaturas nas etapas montanhosas e uma navegação complexa.  Areia e dunas Uma novidade este ano é a travessia do “Empty Quarter”, ou quarteirão vazio, uma imensidão de areia e dunas no Sudeste do país. Alguns dos melhores pilotos do mundo estão na disputa, prometendo batalhas emocionantes, em todas as categorias, como explica Gugelmin. “Eu recebo a planilha 20 minutos antes, eu não sei por onde passaremos e tenho que ir falando para o piloto: esquerda, direita, cuidado, pedra, mas nem tudo está na planilha, tem que ter muita atenção com os buracos, você está no seu limite e no limite da máquina”, afirma. “Você tem que ser rápido, tem que ter estratégia, geralmente a gente se mantém no pelotão da frente como se fosse uma maratona. No sétimo dia tem um descanso, tudo para. E temos que estar no pelotão da frente até o sétimo dia e depois é como se fosse outra corrida, muitos equipamentos começam a dar problema”, explica o  brasileiro.    A França tem o maior número de pilotos, seguida pela Espanha e Holanda. O início de tudo Essa aventura começou em 1978, numa iniciativa do francês Thierry Sabine, que um ano antes havia se perdido em uma motocicleta no deserto da Líbia, durante um rally. Resgatado das areias, ele imaginou uma rota começando na Europa. O projeto rapidamente se materializou no famoso Paris-Dakar, com largada na capital francesa seguindo até Dakar, no Senegal. A competição mostrou ao mundo paisagens até então pouco conhecidas do grande público.  Além da França, o percurso já teve a largada na Espanha e em Portugal, atravessando a África. Porém, devido à falta de segurança na Mauritânia, os organizadores cancelaram a disputa em 2008, realizando os eventos seguintes - de 2009 a 2019 - na América do Sul. O rally cruzou as montanhas passando por Argentina, Paraguai, Chile e Peru. E, desde 2020, a competição acontece na Arábia Saudita. Gustavo Gugelmin disputa a prova na categoria UTV, veículo híbrido para todo tipo de terreno, com o copiloto do americano Austin Jones. Gugelmin já participou de oito edições do Dakar, tendo sido bicampeão do Dakar. “Eu comecei aos 8 anos de idade no kart, corri por quase 10 anos e o sonho era chegar na Fórmula 1, mas em função de custos e patrocínios eu acabei mudando para o off road. Meu pai é piloto, eu fui como navegador, já fui piloto, mas houve convite para fazer provas internacionais como navegador e não parei mais. É o meu oitavo Rally Dakar, eu ganhei o Rally dos Sertões em 2015, principal competição no Brasil e o Dakar eu ganhei 2018 e 2022”, conta.  Dessa vez, o brasileiro estará novamente a bordo do Maverick X3 para tentar mais um título. Austin Jones e Gustavo Gugelmin fazem parte da recém-anunciada Red Bull Can-Am Factory Team, equipe formada por pilotos que dominaram os eventos globais de corrida da FIA (Federação Internacional do Automóvel) nos últimos anos.  “Esse ano temos uma novidade, o nosso time ganhou patrocínio oficial da Red Bull, estou extremamente feliz e contente com essa parceria, a gente sabe que a Red Bull tem uma visibilidade no mundo e agora chegou a nossa vez”, diz.   Outros brasileiros participam do Rally Dakar. Também estarão a bordo de Can-Am Maverick X3 na categoria T4 Pâmela Bozzano e Cadu Sachs, do Team BBR/Pole Position 77. No mesmo time estão Ênio Bozzano (marido de Pâmela) e Luciano Gomes. Já na T3, Rodrigo Luppi e Maykel Justo (Can-Am Maverick/South Racing) esperam repetir o desempenho deste ano, marcado por vitória de etapa. E o mineiro Cristiano Batista estreia com o navegador português Fausto Mota, com outro Maverick do mesmo time. “Nós temos colocado o Brasil no mapa dessa prova, especialmente nos UTVs", conclui orgulhoso Gugelmin. 

Segundo programa de la semana, y la mejor manera de cerrar la temporada 2022 del Podcast Técnica Fórmula 1 será con el siempre acertado en su visión, Raymond Blancafort, que en este segundo programa se centra en hablar de rallyes. La temporada del WRC, a examen. Blancafort nos contará qué le ha parecido, en general, la temporada en una competición que, al igual que en la F1, había cambio de normativa, en este caso, de motores. Nos hablará de lo que más y menos le ha gustado de esta categoría y nos conferá con qué Rally se quedaría si tuviera que elegir uno de la temporada 2022. Por supuesto, hay tiempo para pensar en el futuro, concretamente, en si cree, visto lo visto a final de temporada, que Hyundai podrá plantar cara a Toyota en 2023. Nos dirá qué le parecen los rumores de que Cyril Abiteboul cambie la F1 por los rallyes que se convierta en jefe de equipo de Hyundai, que este año ha tenido toda la temporada a un “interino”. Y, claro, también habrá tiempo para hablar de la marcha de Tänak a M-Sport, el equipo que le formó, para estar junto a Loubet, a tiempo completo. Una preparación inmejorable para el Dakar. Dado que el Dakar empieza con la jornada previa el mismo día 31 de diciembre de 2022, lo mejor es que Raymond nos cuente en qué fijarnos para disfrutar estos días, en los que quien más y quien menos tiene algún descanso, con la mítica prueba. Nos dará su opinión sobre el recorrido de esta edición, que tiene 8.500 km y que difiere en algunos puntos de la edición del año pasado. Concretamente, nos hablará de los tramos de desierto vacío (el Empty Quarter) y del peso que puede tener la navegación. Finalmente, hablará sobre Sainz, sobre las posibilidades de su Audi, que ya tiene un buen rodaje gracias al año pasado y de si cree que el Toyota de Al-Attiyah tiene ventaja o si van a estar más o menos igualados en esta ocasión. En definitiva, una forma inmejorable de terminar el año y engancharse al nuevo con sonido de motores. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Segunda participación de Audi en el Dakar que en 2022 fue el primer fabricante en ganar una etapa con una tecnología electrificada. Ahora inician año con un nuevo coche Audi RS Q etron E2. Una evolución del coche con mejor aerodinámica, más ligero… Seguirán habiendo tres coches con Peterhansel y Ekstrom. Este año ya lo afrontan con mayor experiencia y habiendo participado también en el Rallye de Marruecos con el nuevo coche como anticipo. Afronta la carrera con mayor optimismo que el año pasado porque en 2022 se llegó sin apenas preparación aunque todo sucedió mucho mejor de lo esperado. Los problemas mecánicos del año pasado no fueron por aspectos importantes de la mecánica del coche. Además del problema del road book que arruinó el Dakar de Carlos Sainz y Lucas Cruz como le pasó a la mayoría de los equipos excepto a Nasser. Lucas cree que la primera semana (serán 8 días) con especiales largas de unos 400 kms de media y con la particularidad de que las especiales no tendrá una neutralización a mitad del día. Momento para tener referencias de como vas en la etapa. Por eso el ritmo que lleves no vas a saber si es bueno o malo. Después de la etapa de descanso hay un día largo de casi 500 kms. Para empezar ya con la etapa maratón y entrar en el Empty Quarter con etapas más cortas pero que serán una incógnita. Allí la arena te ralentiza y se hacen trenes de coches porque unos se cogen a otros y si, por ejemplo, te siguen cuatro coches, el cuarto sabes que te ha recortado 12 minutos. El coche es el mismo del año pasado pero con la gran diferencia de que pesa 90 kilos menos aunque por reglamento pesan 100 kilos más que otras categorías. Los híbridos los han subido a 2100 kilos. Algo que Carlos no entiende porque se debería ayudar a este tipo de tecnologías tan complejas. No olvidemos que es un coche con 4 motores, sensores, batería… y no ayudar a las marcas que van hacia la sostenibilidad le sorprende a Carlos Sainz. Carlos habla de la valentía de Audi por poner un coche de esta complejidad en una carrera como el Dakar. Basta como ejemplo conocer que la parte delantera del coche no está conectada con la trasera por un diferencial puesto que es un diferencial virtual. Apenas usará los frenos porque se apoya todo en la regeneración de las baterías. Los test y pruebas han ido bien y Carlos habla de que el coche ahora sí está a su gusto. Por eso piensa que tiene un coche para ganar la carrera. Pero el favorito es el que ha ganado la edición 2022, esto es, Nasser con el Toyota. Lucas Cruz nos cuenta que el coche es mucho más ágil que el anterior y que se comporta mucho mejor en arena. El coche mide 2,30 de ancho y en alguna zona más montañosa (tercera etapa) puede haber problemas para el Audi RS Q etron E2. En el habitáculo del coche llevan unas cámaras para evitar que se saquen teléfono móviles con ayuda extra para navegar. De todos modos Carlos Sainz tiene plena confianza en David Castera que es el encargado del recorrido de la carrera. Y más cuando hace apenas unos años era el copiloto de Stephane Peterhansel. Este programa ha sido posible gracias a la tecnología eléctrica e-tron de Audi. Todos los programas del Dakar 2022 los puedes encontrar en esta lista: https://www.ivoox.com/dakar-2022_bk_list_9971391_1.html Web Audi: https://www.audi.es/es/web/es.html Puedes seguirnos en nuestra web: https://www.podcastmotor.es Twiter: https://twitter.com/AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC57czZy-ctfV02t_PeNXCAQ Contacto: info@autofm.es

Una semana más la competición de motor se halla desierta. Por eso el Podcast Técnica Fórmula 1 se va precisamente a ese tipo de terreno. Esta semana los programas estarán dedicados a una de las primeras competiciones que se ponen en marcha: el Dakar. Un invitado especial. Este Rally Raid comenzará el 31 de diciembre y se extenderá hasta has el 15 de enero, una manera de estar entretenidos hasta que comience la acción en circuitos y pruebas de WRC. Y para prepararnos para la prueba esta semana colabora con el programa Jesús Muñoz, especialista en rallies en Soymotor, acompañado del otro experto habitual del programa, Iván Fernández. En el primer programa de la semana se tratará a fondo el recorrido de esta 45ª edición del Dakar, que tendrá 8.500 km y que difiere en algunos puntos respecto al año pasado, por los tramos en desierto vacío y por el peso tan importante que tendrá la navegación. Para todos los públicos. Como decimos, se explicará con todo lujo de detalles el recorrido, el peso de la navegación en esta edición, o lo que se espera que sea, sobre lo complejo de esta edición del Dakar y sobre el temible Empty Quarter (el desierto que atravesarán en la península arábiga). Por último, para todos los aficionados que no sean muy expertos en en el Dakar o en otros rallies, este año pueden empezar a aprender, pues para ellos, para los que son menos expertos, se hablará de todas las categorías que veremos este año y a los inscritos - y las sorpresas, si las hay - en las distintas categorías. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Episode 126In episode 126, Chris sails solo to bring you the interesting history of Norwegian Spirit (formerly SuperStar Leo) before sharing the latest round up of cruise news from around the world.Image credit: By sv1ambo - Ocean Liner Super Star Leo - Sydney Harbour, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38823142Support the showListen, Like, Subscribe & Review on your favourite podcast directory.Share the podcast with someone you think will enjoy the showBuy Me A Coffee – This podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters, simply buying a coffee keeps us on air. It is just like shouting your mate a coffee, and we consider our listeners close mates. https://bit.ly/2T2FYGXSustainable Fashion – choose a TBCP design or design your own… all using organic cotton, green energy and zero plastic https://bit.ly/32G7RdhCruise NewsVirgin Voyages Welcomes Resilient Lady to Growing Fleet of Lady ShipsVirgin Voyages, is making waves yet again and taking delivery of the brand's third vessel: the beautiful Resilient Lady. Built from the ground up by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, Resilient Lady is a mid-size ship weighing 110,000 gross tons like her sister ships in the fleet: Scarlet Lady and Valiant Lady.Built in the Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa, Resilient Lady marks the brand's third completed vessel in the span of just two years, a notable accomplishment for any brand, and an even taller task for a new company that launched just last year. On May 14, 2023, Resilient Lady will embark on her MerMaiden voyage around the Greek Isles, making stops in Santorini, Rhodes, Bodrum and Mykonos before returning to her homeport in Piraeus, Athens. The ship will sail two, eight-night itineraries including the “Greek Island Glow” with the aforementioned route, and the “Adriatic Sea and Greek Gems,” complete with calls in the beautiful cities of Split, Dubrovnik, Kotor and Corfu.After her inaugural season in the Med, Resilient Lady will embark on a 44-night repositioning voyage, heading Down Under for a winter season in Australia and New Zealand. Starting Oct. 22, 2023, the ship will depart Athens before stopping in some of the most exotic locales the brand has yet to introduce including Cairo, Dubai, Bali, Mumbai, Phuket and Singapore. She'll finally arrive in Sydney on Dec. 4, 2023 for a series of celebrations, media sneak peeks and more.In addition to her sleek cabin interiors, Resilient Lady will feature the brand's six, Michelin-inspired restaurants, 20+ eateries, a curated line-up of live entertainment, design-forward bars, oceanside hangout retreats and incredible service. Perfectly integrating into a unique experience on the ocean, Virgin Voyages has developed a one-of-a-kind vacation being recognized by Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveller and US News & World Report. Most recently, the line received three industry awards from Cruise Critic including the award for best dining, and received its most coveted award for Best New Ship in 2021 for Scarlet Lady.MSC welcomes 21st ship to the fleet!On the evening of 7 December, the world's third largest and fastest growing cruise brand MSC Cruises welcomed MSC Seascape to its fleet of innovative ships. The line's newest flagship was officially named at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal in New York City in recognition of the addition of New York as a new homeport in April 2023. The event was attended by more than 3,000 guests including VIPs, key travel partners and media as well as top management from the entire Cruise Division of the company and its parent MSC Group.One of the highlights of the traditional maritime ceremony was a stunning performance from international singer-songwriter Matteo Bocelli, hot off the heels of his performance at the naming ceremony of MSC World Europa last month.Godmother of the MSC Cruises fleet and international movie icon Sophia Loren blessed the ship virtually whilst Alexa Aponte-Vago, daughter of MSC Group's founder and executive chairman Gianluigi Aponte, performed the traditional cutting of the ribbon to officially name the ship. Loren shared her good luck wishes for the new ship and commented: “One of the highlights of the past 20 years has been to officiate the christening of MSC Cruises fleet not only because the Apontes have become like family to me but also because MSC has always occupied a special place in my heart.  Let me bless the MSC Seascape, her great crew and all her passengers.”Following the ceremony, the guests enjoyed a gourmet gala dinner and standout performance by international Grammy Award winner singer/songwriter Ne-Yo.MSC Seascape becomes the 21st ship in the MSC Cruises fleet and the second ship to be launched in less than one month after MSC World Europa launched in November. She will be closely followed by the line's second LNG-powered vessel MSC Euribia, due to come into service in June 2023.Carnival Celebration debuts expanded youth programmeCarnival Celebration is introducing an expanded youth program including new enrichment activities for children, teens and families, as well as an update to Carnival's popular Dr. Seuss Bookville. Many of the new offerings will be implemented fleetwide by spring 2023.New Turtles Program, Updated Dr. Seuss Bookville Engages and Entertains Young ChildrenCarnival Celebration debuted the most expansive offerings to date for Carnival's youngest guests, children under the age of two, with a new Turtles program. The new program introduces an array of special activities, including Turtle Playdates, Turtle Band, toddler sensory activities, and Baby Turtle Trek – an interactive event featuring fun facts about sea turtle conservation, which welcomes toddlers to re-enact the journey of a baby sea turtle's development as they crawl on a custom-made ocean mat to their cheering family on the other side. The program also offers designated drop-off time in Camp Ocean and late-night babysitting.The Nautical Explorer program creates an opportunity for children in Camp Ocean to participate in exciting, maritime-themed activities to learn nautical knowledge and earn their seafarer book – from designing their own giant cruise ship and having fun with nautical flags to using a compass and meeting a ship's officer.Dr. Seuss Bookville is already one of the most popular activities for Carnival's youngest cruisers, and now it will be more unique and interactive as iconic characters from the world of Dr. Seuss come to life. Thing One and Thing Two will help families put on their very own circus, while The Cat in the Hat stops by to conduct a science experiment and Sam-I-Am leads a hunt for green eggs. In addition to Carnival Celebration, Dr. Seuss Bookville is featured on Mardi Gras, Carnival Freedom, Carnival Horizon, Carnival Panorama and Carnival Vista.Enrichment Activities Immerse Teen Cruisers in Cultural ExperiencesBuilding on the successful Holi Festival of Colours enrichment enjoyed on Mardi Gras, which gives teens an immersive and authentic look at this highly celebrated festival about hope and the colours of life, Carnival Celebration is introducing another cultural program inspired by the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan, which celebrates the beauty of life and new beginnings.At Circle “C,” younger teens (ages 12-14) will participate in fun activities like anime drawing lessons and pop culture games. Teens in the 15-17 age group will enjoy an authentic tea ceremony, Japanese crafts, and games to encourage new friendships at Club O2. Similar enrichment programs for teens will be offered fleetwide by spring of 2023.The expanded youth activities debuting on Carnival Celebration also include a children's space program in partnership with Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, which brings activities inspired by NASA science on board. The innovative new flagship also features a top-deck roller coaster and many other kid-friendly favorites, including a suspended ropes course and a massive water park with three slides and a new, interactive family show, “What's Age Got to Do with It?”P&O Cruises (UK) to host stars from the world of sport and exploration on 2023 itinerariesP&O Cruises has today announced ‘P&O Cruises Presents: Sail with the stars', which will showcase celebrated UK stars from the world of sport and exploration on board Ventura in 2023 and will be included in the price of the holiday.Sports enthusiasts will have the opportunity to enjoy memorable stories, games and entertainment on the Sporting Icons cruise with broadcaster trio Sue Barker, Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell on a seven-night cruise to Spain and Portugal. Guests who enjoy tales of the wilderness and the great outdoors can join the five-night Global Explorers cruise with adventurer and TV presenter Ben Fogle, travel journalist Simon Calder and Monty Halls, best known for his BBC Great Escape series.Both cruises will depart from and return to SouthamptonSporting Icons – 2 Sep 23 – 7ntsSue Barker – Sue Barker is a legend of British tennis. As a player she won Junior Wimbledon at the age of 17, before going on to win the French Open at the age of just 19 in 1976, making the semifinals of Wimbledon the following year. But it was fronting the BBC's coverage of Wimbledon from 1993 until her retirement in 2022 that made Sue a sporting TV icon. Her glittering second career saw her cover countless flagship broadcasts, including the Olympics, BBC Sports Personality of the Year andPhil Tufnell – Phil Tufnell is a former England international cricketer turned TV and radio personality. Having won I'm a .. Get Me Out of Here, Phil remains a favourite in the BBC Test Match Special commentary box.Matt Dawson – Matt's early career was spent as a successful professional rugby player, making a total of 290 appearances for the Northampton Saints and London Wasps between 1991 and 2006. He also appeared 77 times for England and was selected three times to tour with the British and Irish Lions. Since retiring from rugby, Matt forged a successful career in television and media which continues to play an important role in his life, with commitments including BBC Radio 5 Live and BT Sport.Global Explorers – 19 Sep 23 – 5nts Ben Fogle – Ben Fogle is an award-winning broadcaster and adventurer. He has written nine Sunday Times Bestselling books and is the United Nations Patron of the Wilderness. Ben has climbed Mount Everest, rowed across the Atlantic, raced across Antarctica to the South Pole and crossed the deserts of the Empty Quarter in the Middle East. Ben's career spans more than 20 years, having firstly found himself on BBC's first reality TV show Castaway. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, ambassador to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf and patron of The Red Cross and United Nations.Simon Calder – Simon Calder is Britain's leading travel commentator and is known as ‘the man who pays his way', meaning he pays for his own travel. Simon is travel correspondent for The Independent, and writes for the Evening Standard, the i newspaper, National Geographic as well many other publications. Simon is a regular guest on national TV and radio, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, This Morning, CNN, ITV News, Channel 5 and Sky News, as well as BBC Radio 2, 4, 5, LBC, Times and Talk.Monty Halls – Monty Halls is a broadcaster, speaker, naturalist, marine biologist, travel writer and leadership specialist. He is an ex-Royal Marines officer who worked for Nelson Mandela during the peace process in the early nineties, before leaving to pursue a career in expeditions, travel journalism and biology, eventually becoming a qualified marine biologist. He is also the president of the Galapagos Conservation Trust. Monty rose to fame after winning the Channel 4 show Superhumans, leading him to present further series for Channel 4, National Geographic, the History Channel, Channel 5, and the BBC. He is best known for his three BBC2 series Great Escapes, where he lived on the west coast of Scotland and Ireland with his dog Reuben.NCL's unveiled its Northern hemisphere summer 2024/25 and winter 2025 cruiseNorwegian Cruise Line (NCL), the innovator in global cruise travel, unveiled its Northern hemisphere summer 2024/25 and winter 2025 cruises sailing to bucket-list destinations in Europe, Alaska and Caribbean.GREEK ISLES, ISRAEL AND EGYPT – Norwegian Viva, the second vessel from the Prima Class of ships set to debut in August 2023, will offer select roundtrip seven-day Greek Isles voyages from Athens (Piraeus), Greece, as well as nine-to-11-day open jaw sailings between brand-new home port Haifa, Israel; as well as Athens (Piraeus), Greece; and Istanbul, Turkey from May through November 2025.NORTHERN EUROPE – From May through September 2025, Norwegian Prima will sail a series of 10-and-11-day open-jaw voyages from London (Southampton), England and Reykjavik, Iceland.MEDITERRANEAN – Starting April 2025 through October 2025, Norwegian Breakaway will offer a series of nine-and-10-day roundtrip Mediterranean voyages from Barcelona, Spain.ALASKA – During the Alaska season from late April through October 2025, Norwegian Joy, will make her first return to The Last Frontier since 2019 and offer nine-and-10-day roundtrip sailings from Seattle to allow for a longer, more immersive experience for guests to enjoy the great outdoors.PANAMA CANAL – Norwegian Encore will traverse the 40-mile Panama Canal during her unique 21-day Extraordinary Journey starting Oct. 13, 2024 from SeattleCARIBBEAN – Sailing roundtrip from New York City, Norwegian Prima will offer 10-to-12-day Caribbean sailings beginning November 2024 through March 2025 visiting Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Basseterre, St. Kitts; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; Tortola, British Virgin Islands; and Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda.For the second year, Norwegian Viva will homeport in San Juan, Puerto Rico from December 2024 through April 2025 offering seven-day roundtrip Southern CaribbeanNorwegian Escape will sail seven- and 14-day Caribbean sailings from December 2024 through March 2025 from Galveston, Texas.Swan Hellenic and SETI Institute announce partnership to explore space at seaSwan Hellenic announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the SETI Institute to provide its guests with expert insights into the history and latest discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology and planetary science, and the quest to find other forms of life within and beyond our solar system. This quest takes SETI Institute researchers to the most remote and inhospitable corners of the planet to explore life, including Antarctica, where the Swan Hellenic fleet is, of course, present for several months every year.The new partnership is set to engage Swan Hellenic's many adventure travellers with never-before-seen presentations on explorations around Earth and beyond, with SETI Institute equipment, including an advanced telescope, installed on board.The experts initially scheduled for Swan Hellenic's 2023 cultural expedition cruises include Director of Education & Outreach and Deputy Director of Research Dr. Simon Steel, a PhD Astronomer and Astrophysicist who specialises in studying galaxies. He has taught both at Harvard University and University College London. Plans are in the works for him to accompany SH Vega on cultural expedition cruises of Antarctica, the British Isles and Iceland.And more...Join the show:If you have a cruise tip, burning question or want to record a cruise review get in touch with us via the website https://thebigcruisepodcast.com/join-the-show/ Guests: Chris Frame: https://bit.ly/3a4aBCg   Chris's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisFrameOfficialListen & Subscribe: Amazon Podcasts: https://amzn.to/3w40cDcApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2XvD7tF Audible: https://adbl.co/3nDvuNgCastbox: https://bit.ly/2xkGBEI Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2RuY04u I heart Radio:  https://ihr.fm/3mVIEUASpotify: https://spoti.fi/3caCwl8 Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2JWE8Tz Pocket casts: https://bit.ly/2JY4J2M  Tune in: https://bit.ly/2V0Jrrs Podcast Addict: https://bit.ly/2BF6LnE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wilfred Thesiger brugte det meste af sit liv på at flygte fra den vestlige civilisation. Han rejste fra Afghanistan til Marokko og barfodet fulgte han beduinerne gennem Sahara. Thesiger var den første der opdagede The Empty Quarter og af araberne blev han kaldt: Mubarak bin Landan, ”den velsignede fra London”. Velsignet af en højere magt undgik han af dø, ikke en - men flere gange - af tørst og sult og hans utrolige rejser og historier fortæller om en verden, der snart ændrede sig for evigt.Vært: Bjørn Harvig. Medvirkende: Jesper Kurt Nielsen, historiker, forfatter og museumsinspektør her på Nationalmuseet. Jesper har stor viden om ekspeditionshistorie og har gæstet Den Yderste Grænse en håndfuld gange.

Wilfred Thesiger brugte det meste af sit liv på at flygte fra den vestlige civilisation. Han rejste fra Afghanistan til Marokko og barfodet fulgte han beduinerne gennem Sahara. Thesiger var den første der opdagede The Empty Quarter og af araberne blev han kaldt: Mubarak bin Landan, ”den velsignede fra London”. Velsignet af en højere magt undgik han af dø, ikke en - men flere gange - af tørst og sult og hans utrolige rejser og historier fortæller om en verden, der snart ændrede sig for evigt.Vært: Bjørn Harvig. Medvirkende: Jesper Kurt Nielsen, historiker, forfatter og museumsinspektør her på Nationalmuseet. Jesper har stor viden om ekspeditionshistorie og har gæstet Den Yderste Grænse en håndfuld gange.

Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer and Author. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.He has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, trekked in the Arctic and 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert. In 2012 he was named as one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the year…and he's also a dad of two, which, to this day is by far the most challenging expedition he's undertaken.In this episode we talk about how Alastair was totally freaked out (and still is) about how little time he has left in this life and that, contrasting with the day-to-day boredom of humdrum parenting was a massive challenge for him.He has now reframed parenting and sees it as a different, yet equally amazing part of his life. “An adventure is an adventure if you chose to make it so.”Now Alastair leans into finding adventure close to his doorstep, through microadventures, and you can too.“The idea of going camping for a night is one of the great hacks for life. If you are really busy, really stressed, you suddenly buy yourself this experience and you buy yourself this extra time. And a year from now you've still got that fantastic memory.”This conversation has given me a new perspective on looking for opportunities to step outside of your routines and find adventure everyday, whether that be jumping into a river or camping in the backyard.“Whenever I go over a bridge, I've just got this habit of looking down out of the car or out the train to see is that a good river for canoeing, for swimming or is that a good secret spot to camp?”The book I recommend you check out is Alastair's Microadventures. In our discussion, Alastair mentions ACT or Acceptance Commitment Therapy and the book, The Happiness Trap which have helped hi re-frame his life.My daughter, Allie, and I are currently reading Alastair's book, The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean which is a book for children based on Alastair's experiences rowing the Atlantic.One extra thing I like is Alastair's idea of using his phone's home screen to prompt him to think about stoicism throughout his day (he used to use it to describe how long he'd have to run to burn off a pint of beer which was quite alarming).You can't out-run a doughnut!If you'd like to find out about Alastair's other books, films or contact him, here are some links that will get you there:Alastair's websiteAlastair's booksInstagramTwitterYouTubeHope you have a great week, and enjoy your caffeinated beverage :-)Big HugRichPhoto credit: Alastair Humphreys This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thedadmindset.com

Hablamos con Laia Sanz y Carlos Checa antes de su partida hacia el Dakar 2023 con el Astara Team. Llega el final del año y con ello empezamos a oler a desierto en AUTOFM. Nos encanta la competición y las carreras duras. Por eso somos fans de las 24 Horas de Le Mans y del Dakar. Y es que ya no queda nada para la cuarta edición del Dakar en Arabia Saudí. Una competición, que se disputará del 31 de diciembre de 2022 al 15 de enero de 2023. Y que llega con la novedad de puntuar por primera vez para el campeonato del mundo FIA-FIM de rally-raid 2023. El Dakar 2023 se va a desarrollar con un itinerario nunca visto hasta ahora y que hará que los pilotos y sus equipos tengan que cruzar desde las playas del mar Rojo hasta la orilla del golfo Pérsico en Dammam. Un recorrido en forma diagonal, que nos llevará por el país de una punta a otra. En total catorce etapas que partirán hacia las regiones más montañosas del noroeste. Pero es que ya mediada la carrera se pondrá rumbo al sudeste para una meterse de lleno durante 72 horas en el mar de dunas del Empty Quarter. En el programa de hoy vamos a hacer un repaso del equipo español más grande de los últimos tiempos que va a disputar esta prueba. Se trata del ASTARA Team que coge su nombre del gigante de la distribución de vehículos de nuestro país. Que, como novedad, en esta edición tendrá tres coches en la estructura. Tres unidades del Century Racing denominado Astara 01 Concept y que estarán tripuladas por Laia Sanz-Maurizio Gerini, Carlos Checa-Marc Solà y Óscar Fuertes-Diego Vallejo. El buggy con el que competirán, el Astara 01 Concept, es un vehículo de la categoría T1.3 con tan sólo dos ruedas motrices (las traseras). El coche ha recibido mejoras frente a la unidad que corrió el año pasado. Y es que ha perdido peso ganando así en ligereza hasta parar la báscula en los 1.590 kilos en vacío. La potencia aproximada será de 450 caballos y, seguramente lo más importante, anuncia un autonomía de 500 kilómetros. Además, como elemento diferencial y como ya hicieran el año pasado, los tres vehículos estarán propulsados por un bio combustible, un e-fuel. Pero que en este Dakar 2023 este combustible sintético tendrá una proporción del 90%. Porque el año pasado era del 70%, lo que supone un avance en sostenibilidad. El equipo contará con la estructura española SMC Motorsport para el apartado técnico y mecánico. Por otra parte desplazarán hasta Arabia Saudí ocho coches de apoyo y treinta y tres personas en dos camiones. Fernando Rivas: https://twitter.com/rivasportauto Laia Sanz: https://twitter.com/LaiaSanz_ Carlos Checa: https://twitter.com/CarlosCheca7 Puedes seguirnos en nuestra web: https://autofm.es/ y https://www.podcastmotor.es Twiter: @AutoFmRadio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autofmradio/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC57czZy-ctfV02t_PeNXCAQ Contacto: info@autofm.es

½ way through the first leg of their expedition, Mark and the team leave the 1917 Philby route and fast forward 15 years to follow in the footsteps of a later Philby journey.  Heading into the ‘empty quarter' by car, Mark talks to the team's regional expert Alan Morrissey. Expedition website: The Heart of Arabia Expedition Follow the Expedition on social: Twitter Instagram Facebook The Heart of Arabia Expedition podcast is produced by Adventurous Audio

Alex Harris is a world-renown athlete, known for amazing feats like climbing the tallest mountains in the world, walking across Africa's Empty Quarter unsupported and on foot, and becoming the first African to walk unsupported to the South Pole. He's also the founder of a 5-day event called the Munga, dubbed the toughest race on earth. You'll definitely be inspired by someone who has pretty much done it all in extreme sports.You'll hear:Why he believes that toughness exists in all of us, but very few discover itWhat he sees as the ingredients for developing toughnessWhy Alex chose to leave a successful career in salesThe greatest lessons he's learned through pushing himself to the limitsWhy he created the 700-mile Munga race in South Africa, said to be ‘genuinely, absolutely, debilitatingly hard'.**Plus, Alex answers how he would spend a free day if he could go anywhere – with no responsibilities.Learn more about The Munga HERE.Follow Alex on Twitter HERE.I'm competing in The Munga (November 30-December 5) as a fundraiser and to raise awareness for the Three Rangers Foundation, which helps veterans who struggle after leaving the military. You can learn more about it and make a donation HERE.

Bart Byl on Numbers 11:24-30. The wilderness. The Empty Quarter. The only thing standing between the children of Israel and the Jordan River that marks the boundary of the Promised Land. It should be easy, but unfortunately the people can't stop complaining and accusing God and longing for the old land of slavery. In the midst of judgment, God pours out his Spirit on the elders gathered around the temple — and even on two men within the camp, prompting Moses's heartfelt cry, "If only all of God's people were prophets!" Tbilisi International Christian Fellowship is a Christ-centred family of believers in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Wilfred Thesiger's stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, The Empty Quarter, Oman and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain

Film: Into the Lost Desert (2021) This week, Jared and Dan watched a documentary about Max Calderan, a man whose ambition leads him deep into the unexplored desert: the Empty Quarter. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts and leave us a 5 star review! Please consider joining our Patreon! www.patreon.com/indiefilmreview Twitter: @IndieFilmPod Instagram: @IndieFilmReviewPod Email: theindiefilmreview@gmail.com

Desert wind in Oman reimagined by Cities and Memory.  "Far from being a silent or uninteresting source sound, the original field recording is hugely evocative and oddly emotional, transporting the listener to a unique place of both beauty and epic isolation.  "For the reimagined piece, I sought to capture and emphasise some of the sense of loneliness and isolation, but at the same time warmth and hope, that the original recording generated in me. Snippets of piano dance around the sound field, anchored by a simple, mellow bassline that keeps us locked into a sense of place throughout the piece. This is The Empty Quarter."

Desert wind in the Empty Quarter, Oman, recorded by George Vlad. "The vastness of the Empty Quarter is difficult to fathom. It's larger than many countries but it is virtually uninhabited. There's hardly any wildlife and the continuously moving sand dunes support only a few incredibly hardy plants. "The sound of the desert is subtle yet mesmerising. Only wind and soft sand movement make up the soundscape, but it varies endlessly. The wind can be muted, soft, soothing, blustery, gusty and many other descriptors. Sometimes it's so strong it can take down my tent, with me in it. Other times it's not present at all, creating a weird sense of weightlessness."

She has crossed the Empty Quarter, she is an entrepreneur and she is into triathlon reviving her childhood passion for cycling. Meet Baida al Zedjali, our guest. Join us on voices at Oman Observer Podcast.

Business location is crucial for both starting a fresh business, or moving your establishment. At Dr. Demographics we provide valuable information tips to help you decide which kind of location will suit your business needs, as well as things you need to take into consideration when searching for the right spot. In this video, Scott McDonald discusses the trends that are causing certain areas to grow as well as progress and explains how to use the empty quarter to your advantage so you can have the most success in your business location.

S1, Ep 7: Janey McGill credits her father with her sense of adventure.  Since she was a little girl, she's always had a love for the great outdoors and horses, and for a short while, she was raised in Vegas. A nasty accident while riding meant she was forced to give up her career in the military, but she hasn't let that hinder her travel plans.  From moving to France to nanny a blind dog and several horses, to trekking for 28 days across the desert,  Janey's travel tales are certainly unique.Janey's need for a challenge, combined with her intolerance to sitting at an office desk all day, and her fascination with the Middle East, led her to taking on a major expedition across the Empty Quarter in Oman with two other women. Janey and Laura discuss her expedition, some of the beauty spots to be seen along the British coastline, wild camping, and overcoming life's challenges.You can watch a short film of Janey's expedition over on Instagram - @truetravelpodcast - where you can also get the latest on all of the podcast's other guests.Enjoyed this episode? Remember to subscribe so you don't miss out.You can also follow the True Travel Podcast on Instagram: @truetravelpodcast and Twitter: @truetravelpod.Buzzsprout is the #1 podcast hosting platform and made launching the True Travel Podcast really easy. As a subscriber, you get tons of guides, from finding the right equipment at the right price to growing your podcast organically; as well as detailed analytics to see how people are listening, tools to promote your episodes, and more.Start your free trial with Buzzsprout now.(Affiliate disclaimer: Following this link lets Buzzsprout know we sent you, gets you a $20 Amazon gift card if you sign up for a paid plan, and helps support the show).

I'm excited to take you to one of my favorite countries today, the Sultanate of Oman. Located on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula, this hidden gem boasts rugged mountain ranges bursting with roses, terraced orchards of pomegranates, vast sand dune deserts, and date palm fringed oases dotted with crystal clear limestone pools of water. One of the best ways to experience Oman is by camping and spending time with a local guide. So our guest today is Taimur Al-said, the owner of Hud Hud Travels. Taimur specializes in luxury camp set ups so that whether you're a couple or a big family or a huge group of friends - you can have this experience in comfort. We discuss everything from the Sultan, to trying Omani food streetside, to the gorgeous natural beauty of the countryside.   Learn more at www.luxtravelinsider.com Connect with me on Social: Instagram LinkedIn

Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, Gary North, Ron Paul, "North-Paul Strategy," 2008 Ron Paul Presidential campaign, fiat currency, financial collapse, Federal Reserve system, Minutemen, Jekyll Island, '90s militia movement, Mormonism, Mormon Constitutionalism, Cleon Skousen, Ezra Taft Benson, Edwin Vieira, 2007-2008 subprime mortgage crisis, Tea Party, patriot movement, Obama administration, Republican Party, home schooling, nullification, "continental congress," Chuck Baldwin, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy the Fed, Civilization Preservation Teams, Fourth Generation Warfare, "David vs Goliath" concept, Sagebrush Rebellion, Battle of Bunkerville, Bundy standoff, American Legislative Exchange Council, Ken Ivory, Utah, Koch Brothers, Council for National Policy, Mormonism in the patriot movement.    Below are James notes' for this discussion. This is not the actual transcript, just the notes James put together for the show.    Questions Now, a major influence on the ideology of the Oath Keepers in your estimation was Gary North. Can you give us a bit of an overview of this guy and the world view he held? Gary North is a major strategist of the Christian Reconstructionist religious movement founded by Rousas Rushdoony. North was Rushdoony's son-in-law. Rushdoony was a religious forerunner of Fourth Generation Warfare. Rushdoony borrowed the idea of presuppositionism, that is, our beliefs are based on our presuppositions, and argued that Americans had two opposing choices: follow the laws of God or follow the laws of man. Following the laws of God meant building the Kingdom here-and-now earth and putting religious zealots in charge. It is a philosophy of theonomy and dominionism. This is the entire idea of making the US once again a Christian nation and the foundation for Christian nationalism. Christian Reconstructionism is the guiding philosophy, the driving force, of the Christian Right—though most people in the movement may never have heard of Rushdoony. If Rushdoony is the Karl Marx of the movement, Gary North may be its Lenin. North was both a political strategist—how to implement this religious philosophy—and an economist—how to bring the US economic system under biblical law, which, funny enough, was the gold standard, railing against fiat money of the Federal Reserve System, and an extreme libertarianism. As a strategist, he believed like Paul Weyrich and William Lind, in a centralized strategy executed through decentralized networks, which is exactly as Weyrich did through his ad hoc Arlington Group and Lind described for the militia. Alright, get into North's perception of the Federal Reserve system. This is crucial to so much of this stuff, so it warrants an in-depth explanation. North's notations of a pending economic collapse sounded outlandish to many normal Americans for decades. But in recent years, they've become harder and harder to ignore. Even many leading mainstream economists have expressed concerns in recent years, correct? The standard right-wing theory of how they will come to power is based on the Weimar model: catastrophically high rates of inflation and economic collapse. They have been pushing this idea since at least the 1980s, if not before. So, they believe in the Weimar model. And they push for a return to the gold standard, the abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and a balanced federal budget. The difference between, for example, the economic collapse conspiracy theory pushed by Oath Keepers and its libertarian allies and mainstream liberal economists, is that the former believes the elites will engineer a collapse. Gary North, on the other hand, thinks the economic collapse will be God's judgement for running an unbiblical and fraudulent fiat money system. Mainstream, liberal economists with impeccable credentials believe this economic system is inherently unstable and, if it does suffer a catastrophic financial crash—because it keeps growing larger and larger, with more opaque financial instruments, and ever greater global connectivity—it could take the US government down with it. For the mainstream, it is the system's inherent instability that causes a crash rather than the evil intentions of financial elites. You can find progressive analysts thinking a future economic collapse is possible. Indeed, it is possible to argue that both right-wing populists and left-wing populists believe the economic system is rigged by the political-economic elites against much of the American people, even if both populist wings differ on the causes, consequences, and remedies. But, whatever the cause of a future economic collapse or catastrophic financial crisis, the right-wing expects it and is prepared to exploit it to push their dominionist political agenda. Now, how does the militia movement of the 1990s tie into these notions of economic collapse? And what were some of the characteristics and hotbeds of the movement back then? New right-wing movements cannot be isolated from the dominant ideas of the conservative movement and Christian movements. These new movements may express the issues more starkly or in more extreme rhetoric, but they are not independent of these larger ideological schools of thought. The innovation of the militia/patriot movement was the idea of the New World Order. But this is rehashed, rebranded John Birch Society rhetoric about “insiders.” When globalization is the buzzword, the insiders become globalists. But “insiders” and “globalists” are sanitized code words for Jews. The Christian Identity movement believed the country was headed towards an economic collapse and racial civil war. They and the “patriot/militia” sphere trained in survivalism and borrowed from the “prepper” movement. The religious foundations of many right-wing movements are apocalyptic—they believe they are in the End Times or the end of the world. They then look for secular signs of the economic collapse. When the militias began resurging in 2004, one of their main ideas was that foreign or domestic terrorism could lead to an economic collapse. Let's talk Mormon Constitutionalism for a moment. What is it, and how did it serve as a bridge between the Christian right and the later patriot movement? I want to address this question in a broader context. I want to leave your audience with the idea that there are at least three religious movements on the right that have their differences and yet they also have some commonalities. And unless you put an individual or a group in its proper religious context, you may make some wrong inferences. Mormon Constitutionalism, according to sociologist James Aho, who published a foundational book on “Idaho Christian Patriotism” in 1990, noted that these “Christian patriots” believe in the organic Constitution—the original 1787 articles and the Bill of Rights that were ratified in December 1791. That the Constitution and the United States of America is part of God's plan and America is God's chosen country. Hence Americans, especially white Americans, are God's chosen people, not the Jews. That Americans must choose to obey and follow God or obey and follow Satan. And it follows that the Great Conspiracy is the Battle of God vs Satan on earth through their respective human agents. And those beliefs are consistent with the views of the Christian Reconstructionists, the Christian Right, the John Birch Society, and Christian Identity. Even if these religious movements put different emphases on the villains, they do share a common narrative structure that allows them to understand each other and cooperate. The Christian Right and John Birch Society tone done their anti-Semitism. They do not go for overt promotion of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But their promotion of “Cultural Marxism” as a conspiracy theory is rooted in the Protocols and Pat Robertson's book The New World Order borrowed from anti-Semitic sources. They can signal to the hard right that they are on-board with the anti-Semitism without alerting watchdog organizations that they are anti-Semitic. They may get a wrist slap from these watchdogs, but that amounts to a nominal reprimand while the main show continues. Now, let us take a simple concept to show how one simple concept can serve as a bridge between four movement. That concept is “county supremacy” or sometimes expressed as the supremacy of the constitutional sheriff or simply as a constitutional sheriff. Mormon prophet Ezra Taft Benson believed there were three levels of legitimate government in the United States: the county, state, and federal government. Both Benson's and fellow Mormon constitutionalist W. Cleon Skousen placed great emphasis on the significant role and importance of the county sheriff. Skousen, collaborated closely with the John Birch Society, which in the 1960s, had a “Support Your Local Sheriff” campaign. Skousen founded the Freemen Institute which later became the National Center for Constitutional Studies. The latter organization became, through Glenn Beck's boosterism, the leading source of constitutional theory for the Tea Party movement. The Christian Reconstructionists also placed a great emphasis on county or local officials. In 1983, Gary North published an edited book, The Theology of Christian Resistance, which included a chapter on the “lesser magistrates” which was derived from John Calvin. Indeed, North also included Calvin's brief writing on the topic. According to the Christian Reconstructionists, individuals should not resist tyranny on their own. Instead, resistance to tyranny was the responsibility of “lesser magistrates” or local officials. “Lesser magistrates” could be the governor, a board of county supervisors, or the county sheriff. Some analysts suggest that the reduction of the Christian Right's “lesser magistrates” to the exclusive focus on the county sheriff is the product of Christian Identity and its related Posse Comitatus movement. That would give the concept a racist and anti-Semitic lineage. But prophet Benson wrote that in the “‘lawless West'” settlers came together to “hire a sheriff” and at “this precise moment, government is born.” The settlers “delegate to the sheriff their unquestionable right to protect themselves.” Thus Benson gives primacy to the county sheriff “who now does for them only what they had a right to do for themselves—nothing more.” Moreover, Benson viewed “defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude” as the only “proper function of government.” Logically, then, the county sheriff is responsible for community defense against tyranny. Thus, when we hear about “constitutional sheriffs” or “county supremacy,” the person or organization expressing those views may or may not have derived those terms from the anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus. If that person lives in the West, in an area dominated by the Church of Latter-Day Saints, his or her views may be from Mormon sources, or even John Birch Society sources. The fact that there is consistency across three religious movements—Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Christian Reconstructionism, and Christian Identity—does not mean that the expression of a common term makes the speaker a racist or anti-Semite, especially an overt racist or anti-Semite like the Christian Identity and Posse Comitatus were. Okay, let's talk some Edwin Vieira for a moment. He had a considerable influence on the post-9/11 militia movement. Can you break his views down for us? Edwin Vieira wrote many papers on how the militias were to be properly organized under the Constitution. But he viewed all the unorganized, disorganized, and current militias as constitutionally suspect. The Southern Poverty Law Center, however, called him the “architect of the militias” for the central role he played in the 2009 meeting on Jekyll Island that led to the revitalization of the patriot/militia movement. He may have been, though I could be wrong, the first who linked the need to have gold and silver currencies for individual states as an alternative to fiat money and constitutionally organized militias as necessary to have to prevail during a catastrophic financial crisis. He believed it necessary to complete both actions—gold and silver currencies and constitutionally-organized militias—before the crisis occurs. Gary North, on the other hand, argued against the Federal Reserve System and expressed his sort-of biblically based proposals on the post-collapse reconstruction period. In North's 1986 book, Honest Money, he called for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System and “all central banking.” Vieira's “Purse and Sword” view linked Federal Reserve System collapse and Department of Homeland Security suppression. An economic collapse would require the political-economic elites to use DHS to remain in power. That was a major innovation on the right-wing. Thus, all gun control measures were not only unconstitutional in his view but served the larger purpose of tilting the battlefield in favor of DHS over the militias. Vieira also wrote that there was a right way and wrong way for a state to secede from the United States or the Union. Because he believed so many people were doing things wrong, he may not have been the most popular strategist. But he believed that the national security state was going to suffer a financial collapse. He advocated NOT for the return to the gold standard, but for individual states to have gold and silver currencies that would allow them to secede before or during a severe financial crisis. He was an ardent supporter of Ron Paul. Popular or not, Vieira was the deepest thinker on these issues, and he did have a direct influence on the Oath Keepers who promoted him vigorously starting in 2011 and up to at least 2014 when Vieira featured in two Ron Paul and Oath Keepers-linked videos. Prior to that Oath Keepers' promotion, Vieira's ideas were the foundation for the 2009 “continental congress” organized by Ron Paul's collaborator Bob Schulz. Vieira's ideas started to gain traction around 2008, as the subprime mortgage crisis began to unfold. There were two right wing movements that emerged around then as well, the Tea Party and the patriot movement. Do you want to go over those briefly? Progressives always miss a chunk of history. Starting in late 2004 and roaring to life in early 2005 was a strong nativist movement centered on John Tanton's white nationalist anti-immigration movement and the surge in border militias that went to our southern and northern borders to “stop the invasion” of immigrants. This movement picked up significant support in small cities and suburbs. This movement sunk President Bush's immigration policy in 2005 and by 2009 immigration reform in the GOP is on life support. It is now pretty much dead. Then comes the financial crash of 2008. Bush and the GOP elite are already ideologically suspect. The Tea Party movement, effectively a subsidiary of the Christian Right, jettisons the culture war issues of abortion and gay rights, and concentrates the extreme libertarian message of the Christian Reconstructionists, the Christian Right, and the libertarian strains of Ron Paul and the Koch brothers. The Tea Party movement attacks the mainstream Republican Party and the new Obama administration on taxes, spending, and deficits. Their large, nation-wide protests attract white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the white nationalist anti-immigration movement who all begin to network and try to influence this new batch of conservative, Christian activists. Organizationally, there is a centralized strategy—through the Council for National Policy and its various front groups in Washington, D.C.—and decentralized execution in the states. The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and the Forbes-funded FreedomWorks give the Tea Party movement its organizational coherence. The John Birch Society and Skousen's National Center for Constitutional Studies begin the process of indoctrinating these new members on their interpretation of the Constitution. The Oath Keepers, as part of a resurgent militia/patriot movement also began to network and indoctrinate Tea Party members on the importance of resisting tyranny the proper way at the local level, as well helping spread conspiracy theories into this movement. Both the Tea Party movement and the patriot/militia movement are the product of more than a decade of right-wing organizing through annual conferences. For example, Ron Paul participated in the Freedom21 conferences held annually between 2000 and 2009. This coalition of 17 groups were fighting the United Nations' Agenda 21 program for sustainable economic development. In May 2009, Vieira was a founding member of the “Jekyll Island Project Freedom.” Eric Cunningham, an Oath Keeper, was also a founding participant. The SPLC suggested this meeting “appears to have played a key role in launching the current resurgence of militias and the larger anti-government ‘Patriot' movement.” The Jekyll Island conference led to the November 2009 “continental congress,” held in Illinois. The organizing group, Bob Schulz's We The People, had been collaborating with Oath Keepers since at least October 2009. Among the “articles of freedom” published by the so-called “continental congress,” “asks [that] Americans treat county sheriffs as the highest legitimate police authority,” according to an SPLC summary. In a long, round-about way, we have the Christian Reconstructionists with their doctrine of the “lesser magistrates” leading the resistance to tyranny, William Lind's advocacy of militia units as local defense forces (aka “neighborhood watches”), and Edwin Vieira's “militias of the several states” all coming together to put Oath Keepers and the militias under the control of the local constitutional sheriff to contest the legitimacy and territorial claims of the United States government during a period of secession or severe economic crisis. The “continental congress” signaled that the broad right-wing as early as 2009 was preparing for revolution. This is a full-blown Fourth Generation War, particularly when you add in the Disinformation and Propaganda Machine of the right-wing. When did these movements start embracing Vieira's ideas? It is hard to answer this question. Vieira participated in the Jekyll Island Project Freedom and his writings informed a good deal of the discussions at the “continental congress.” From 2011 to 2014, Oath Keepers made promotion of Edwin Vieira's voluminous writings, his own videos, and videos promoted by Oath Keepers a centerpiece of their outreach. Alright, let's get into Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign and the "North-Paul strategy." Before we get into the Oath Keepers proper, take us through some of the other militant groups that came out of the Paul campaign. There are four groups that come out of Ron Paul's presidential campaign. First, a homeschooling project in association with nullification advocate and secessionist proponent Thomas Woods. Second, the National Precinct Alliance to capture the Republican Party at the level of precinct captain. Third, were Richard Mack's Save Our Sheriff and The Sheriff Project that eventually became the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), which was aligned with Oath Keepers and is the vehicle for putting militias under the rubric of “sheriff's posses.” Fourth and last, was Oath Keepers itself. Now, there were some other movements, such as those dedicated to homeschooling and nullification, that came out of the Paul campaign. What were their relations to these more militant groups? Ron Paul is a bridge figure between the Christian Reconstructionists and Christian Right via Gary North and to the neo-Confederates and secessionists through Thomas Woods. The neo-Nazis saw him as a “friendly.” David Duke and Stormfront raised money for his campaign. The idea of nullification is widespread across the right-wing. It is not advocated just by the neo-Confederates. The Catholic journal First Things advocated nullification of Supreme Court decisions to provoke a constitutional crisis in 1996. What we are witnessing now is not the fringe with extremist ideas attacking the center. No, we are seeing fringe ideas promoted by the Republican Party and the Christian Right attacking the legitimacy of a secular constitution and an economically shaky neoliberal economic regime. Let's briefly touch on this coalition's efforts to remake the Republican Party and drive out the "RINOs." Political scientists have known that the Republican Party and the conservative movement have been organized around the principle of orthodoxy. Sam Tanenhaus in his 2010 book The Death of Conservatism argued that the “modern liberal worldview is premised on consensus. Movement conservatism emphasizes orthodoxy.” Tanenhaus further argued that the “primary dynamic of American politics…[is] a competition between the liberal idea of consensus and the conservative idea of orthodoxy.” Numerous political scientists since 2010 have published articles on the Republican Party rejecting the legitimacy of the federal government, the legitimacy of the Democratic Party, the use of constitutional hardball tactics, and the winking toleration of political violence. I am not talking about mass murder events. The GOP for decades has done nothing and said nothing about anti-abortion violence. They gave a winking tsk-tsk. It therefore stands to reason that a political party driven by orthodoxy, appealing to authoritarian Christians with an apocalyptic worldview, and viewing its political opponents as either “traitors” or “satanic agents” would not tolerate dissenters, heretics, and apostates. The Tea Party used secular economic issues. But right-wing movement activists have used immigration issues. They have used abortion and gay rights issues. They have used church-state separation issues. They have used the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in public schools. For decades, the Republican Party has been transforming itself into a Leninist combat party or a fascist combat party—pick your favorite model. Alright, let's start getting into the Oath Keepers. So first off, let's go over Stewart Rhodes' background. Can you get into his military career and pre-2008 activities? He graduated from Airborne school in 1983. He completed the first phase of the Special Forces course. In 1985, he was medically discharged from the Army after having been injured making a night jump with the 9th Infantry Division as a long-range reconnaissance scout. After the Army, in May 1998 he graduated from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas with a BA in Political Science. He graduated from Yale Law School in June 2004. He held a variety of jobs in public and private law offices. From May 2007 to January 2008, he was “counsel for the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians.” He lectured at Stanford and Yale. He does not seem to have stayed in any position for very long. In April 2007 he began writing for SWAT magazine. So, how did Rhodes become involved with the Ron Paul campaign? Stewart Rhodes was a staffer in Ron Paul's House office from June 1998 to February 1999. In November 2007, Rhodes made his first donation to Ron Paul's presidential campaign. Gary North had been a Ron Paul staffer in 1976—so that relationship goes back decades. Rhodes' most complete biography is taken from his personal website. He claimed that he of “Hispanic decent [sic]” and “part American-Indian.” He claimed that his “great grandfather…rode with Pancho Villa.” On his mother's side of his family were “migrant farm workers.” Now, the Oath Keepers made good use of pre-existing networks to build up their membership circa 2009. What were some of these networks and how did the Oath Keepers hitch their cart? The first thing to recognize about the movement conservatives and the Christian Right movement is that despite its belligerent rhetoric and policies, very few of the elite and rank-and-file in Washington, D.C. have ever served in the military. In fact, very few Americans have served in the military. For example, when veterans stand up and salute for the “Star Spangled Banner” at Blue Wahoos games in Pensacola, very few people stand up. So they are in awe of military people. Since the Oath Keepers came out of the Ron Paul presidential campaign, Stewart Rhodes had access to various movements supportive of Ron Paul. The fact that Oath Keepers came out of the semi-secret Paul-North strategy meant that Rhodes had access to the Christian Right and the Council for National Policy. I do not know how much access he had or how much support he was given, but while Rhodes may have been a political nobody in 2009, he was connected to a few political somebodies. Rhodes connected with Richard Mack which opens the militia/patriot movement. Gary North could connect him with the Christian Right. Ron Paul could connect him with the neo-Confederate movement. The Oath Keepers distinguished themselves in two ways. One, Rhodes claimed that Oath Keepers was not a militia. Two, Rhodes was recruiting active and retired military and law enforcement. Hidden in their scrambled ten orders they will not obey was the obvious, which Chris Matthews nailed Stewart Rhodes on: defending a state's right to secede from the United States. There are other movements that Oath Keepers could connect with. There was the anti-environmental movement or the Wise Use movement. They could connect with the Reagan-era county supremacy movement that existed among Western county commissioners. They could connect with Larry Pratt and Gun Owners of America and the absolutist gun rights movement. They could connect with the nascent Three Percent movement. They could connect with the white nationalist anti-immigration movement. When did the Oath Keepers first discover Vieira? The first promotion of Vieira on the Oath Keepers' blog came in January 2011. They promoted his 8-hour video The Purse and the Sword. The same article also promoted two other books that make up the trilogy of right-strategy: The County Sheriff by Richard Mack and Nullification by Thomas E. Woods. By trilogy of the strategy you can see how in an economic collapse, or, now in a highly contentious dispute over the validity of an election outcome (h/t Bruce Wilson), you have the idea of resistance by lesser magistrates, constitutional sheriffs imbued with a sense of county supremacy, and the sheriff's posse consisting of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, the militias of various flavors, and other right-wing street fighters. In May 2011, they promoted a Vieira article on the twin dangers of a financial collapse and the suppression of rebellion by the Department of Homeland Security. Vieira argued for the creation of an alternative currency based on gold and silver, not simply backed by gold and silver. They pushed Vieira's articles on the formation of properly constituted militias. They also promoted Vieira's view that all gun control laws constituted “treason.” What are the ties between the Oath Keepers and Ron Paul's "continental congress"? The most obvious physical tie between Oath Keepers and the “continental congress” is the fact that Eric Cunningham, represented Oath Keepers at the meeting. Cunningham and the other “Project Freedom Keepers” described by the group as “leaders of the growing freedom movement.” William Taylor Reil from Pennsylvania and David Helms from Arizona were Oath Keepers and delegates at the “continental congress.” Helms was on the national board of Oath Keepers. Reil was pushing the Sheriffs program in the civic actions to be approved. But the “continental congress” was put on by Bob Schulz and his We The People foundation. Schulz has long-standing ties to Ron Paul. Edwin Vieira's documents were part of the foundation of ideas considered and voted upon by the “continental congress.” The fact that two years later Oath Keepers is the most important proponent of Vieira's ideas I think ties the Oath Keepers tightly to the “continental congress.” How about the connections between the Oath Keepers and Pastor Chuck Baldwin? In 2008, Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin for president running on the “openly theocratic Constitution Party” ticket. In 2004 Baldwin was the Constitution Party's vice-presidential candidate. In the 1990s, Baldwin had been pastor at Pensacola's Crossroads Baptist Church, a radio talk show host, a militia proponent, an ardent anti-abortionist. Baldwin was also connected to the racist Council of Conservative Citizens, a prominent neo-Confederate group. In 2013, Baldwin became the national chaplain of Oath Keepers. But between 2007 and 2013, Baldwin was involved in the “Black Regiment” organization that recruited pastors to support an upcoming American revolution. In late 2013 Baldwin preached and asked if “secession time is coming again?” How did the Oath Keepers approach Occupy Wall Street? The Oath Keepers put on a false front regarding Occupy Wall Street. Initially, it endorsed the idea of the 99 percent against the 1 percent. But sociologist Spencer Sunshine, who studied the infiltration of Occupy by right-wing groups noted that Oath Keepers was among 20 right-wing groups, some like the LaRouche movement, white supremacist groups, as well as Ron Paul supporters and Alex Jones. That is not to say that Oath Keepers operated in concert with these white supremacist groups. What Oath Keepers did underhandedly was push the Ron Paul idea to “End The Fed.” But given that Rhodes and Paul and North are all extreme libertarians, they do not actually advocate for helping the American people on economic issues. It is hard to figure how cutting taxes on billionaires, cutting environmental and other regulations on corporations, and working to transfer hundreds of millions of acres of public lands to billionaires and energy/mining corporations helps the ordinary American. Okay, let's get into their concept of Civilization Preservation Teams. This was kind of their sneaky way of getting around being labeled a militia. So, what of them James? In October 2013, Oath Keepers launched their “Civilization Preservation Teams” based on the premise that the Great Collapse was coming. These CPT were based on a Special Forces “A-Team” or Detachment Alpha concept. Twelve Oath Keepers would link up with existing veteran's groups and organize a local resistance to an “oppressive regime” in addition to disaster preparation—the kind FEMA already does. The SPLC commented that it was “the first time the Oath Keepers… has moved in the direction of actually establishing any sort of militia or fighting force of its own.” US News & World Report reported that local Oath Keepers “preservation teams” will “‘draft and introduce militia bills, posse bills, and nullification bills, among other items to support liberty.'” In fact, that Oath Keepers statement is exactly what the semi-secret North-Paul strategy called for. In January 2008, Gary North explained the semi-secret part of the strategy. The homeschooling of children would prepare future Christian libertarian radicals. The National Precinct Alliance would produce local GOP organizations controlled by Christian libertarian radicals. The constitutional sheriffs would command and operate the local militias as part of his or her posse. And Oath Keepers teams would be the glue holding this local resistance together. North explained this openly: “When checks from Washington no longer buy much, there will be a monumental political transformation…. The primary goal is to get positioned locally with numerous officials to present a united front against the Federal government when it begins to falter.  When the Feds' money buys nothing, the hard corps needs to be influential locally to block all attempts of the Feds to impose controls over the local economy. This has been known historically as the doctrine of interposition.” Inevitably, the Oath Keepers follow Fourth Generation Warfare. They have an interesting concept in regards to conflict, which is dubbed David and Goliath. Can you get into that a bit and how it plays into the Civilization Preservation Teams? Let me start with Gary North explaining the Fourth Generation Warfare strategy that was embedded inside the semi-secret North-Paul strategy that informs Oath Keepers' overall strategy. Keep in mind that Gary North as early as 2004 was using William Lind's writings on Fourth Generation Warfare to explain Osama bin Laden's strategy. Middle East scholar Michael Ryan noted that Abu Ubayd al-Qurashi, a highly probable advisor to Osama bin Laden, “might have been influential on the topic of fourth-generation warfare” because his second article in Al-Ansar, the online military strategy journal of al Qaeda, was “Fourth Generation Warfare” which cited Lind and other 4GW strategists. North wrote in January 2008, before Oath Keepers was established: “The central issue is legitimacy. The supreme goal is to undermine the legitimacy enjoyed by the prevailing central state. This task is doable. We have the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve System working for us: a debt disaster to be funded by fiat money. When the dollar dies, political legitimacy dies with it. This is the central premise of my recommended strategy.” The David and Goliath example is easy to understand. We understand that David represents a weaker opponent, but a highly moral opponent. Goliath was large, a brute, and on the side of the enemy of the Israelites (and God). William Lind used this concept to explain why US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq a small footprint should have, use nimble infantry forces, use force sparingly, and not become a Goliath—thus depriving the insurgents of a strategic level moral victory. A Goliath is inherently illegitimate. What Oath Keepers wants to do, borrowing from Lind and North, is label the federal government as a tyrannical, illegitimate government like a Goliath. Alright, I want to start getting into the centerpiece of this discussion, the Battle of Bunkerville. This event has a very deep background. In fact, it's considered to be the third Sagebrush Rebellion. The second one is most relevant to our discussion. So, how about that, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the so-called "Cowboy Caucus" of the 1990s? Paul Weyrich founded The American Legislative Exchange Council. Weyrich is the same Christian Right leader who helped formed the Christian Right by the mid-1980s; he founded the Heritage Foundation; he co-founded the Council for National Policy; and he was instrumental in forming the Moral Majority. He was a key strategist. ALEC takes the needs of the Christian Right, the GOP, and Big Business and translates them into pieces of model legislation. These legislation models are then transmitted to state legislatures for passage and signing into law by the governor. In the 1980s, personnel formerly with the Reagan Administration and Coors money help launch the Second Sagebrush Rebellion. ALEC is involved. The Heartland Institute is involved. Both would remain highly active in the 1990s and to the current day. ALEC is helping attack environmental regulations and the Endangered Species Act, one the most prominent federal laws used by environmentalists to halt mining and energy drilling, as well as ranchers misusing federal lands. During the 1990s, the Christian Right formed the Wise Use movement to oppose the environmental movement. The militia/patriot movement's opposition to the New World Order aligns itself with the Wise Use movement, the county supremacy movement, and the Sagebrush Rebellion. The goal is to transfer about 750 million acres of public lands in the Western states to energy and mining corporations, and billionaire landowners. Alright, let's get into the Council for National Policy's role in the Second Sagebrush Rebellion. What were the moves made by ALEC and the CNP in the run up to the Third Sagebrush Rebellion? The Council for National Policy operates at the strategic level of the movement. It brings together operational planners, communication companies, and funders. Once they decide on a strategy or a campaign, that campaign is executed through other networks or movements. Recently, the CNP has begun forming an action group that attracts other action groups from different movements, like bringing together the Tea Party movement, the anti-immigration movement, Americans for Prosperity, and a major border militia group. The CNP's influence is indirect, though not always so. But the fact that the Koch brothers have a representative seat on the CNP's executive board demonstrates how influence works. In the 2010s, ALEC and the overall Sagebrush Rebellion are pushing for local control of public lands. The Koch brothers become more involved. The aim is also to rollback environmental regulations and defund the Environmental Protection Agency. The Bureau of Land Management is the central object of attack. It has one of the most difficult jobs in the federal government: managing and balancing the competing economic, political, and environmental interests trying to maximize their use of public lands while conforming to federal law and being subject to intense political pressure by conservative politicians operating at the county, state, and federal levels. And periodically subjected to violence by militias and lone wolf terrorists. The Council for National Policy is not directly involved. What the Christian Right had formed is another anti-environmental movement, the Cornwall Alliance, which sought to delegitimize the environmental movement as socialist and satanic. These operations are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional. Let's talk some Ken Ivory for a moment, a onetime rising star in Utah's state legislature. This guy has a lot of interesting ties. Ken Ivory does not become a state representative in Utah until 2010. He is a Mormon. In 2011, he is pushing Edwin Vieira's gold and silver legislation in the Utah legislature. Utah became the first state to authorize gold and silver as a legal currency. That was a civic action recommended by the “continental congress.” From there he moves into the Koch-funded speaking circuit of Americans for Prosperity. He then becomes a proponent of transferring public lands to the states. By 2014, the national Republican Party is supporting the transfer of public lands to billionaires. Also in 2014, state-level representatives from several Western states are starting to coordinate their political demands and actions regarding such transfers and concocting false histories to back their claims. By 2014, Ken Ivory and Americans for Prosperity are making connections with Oath Keepers, the constitutional sheriffs head Richard Mack, and the opponents of the Agenda21 movement. He eventually becomes director of the Koch-funded Americans Land Council. That organization is instrumental in bringing together elected state officials to push for public land privatization or county control of public lands. Now, let's talk about the role of Mormonism in all of this for a moment. The bulk of the support for ALEC came from Western states, many with large Mormon populations. The first formal effort to seize federal lands came from Utah. The Oath Keepers featured a lot of support from the same states, and featured more than a few Mormons in their ranks. Cliven Bundy was a Mormon, as were many of his supporters at the standoff. Is this an element that's been overlooked? The Mormon background of these participants tends to be glossed over or not given very much weight. What missed by many is that the Church of the Latter-Day Saints is one of the largest landowners in the West. I am not saying that the LDS supports Cliven Bundy and various rebellions. They did not. But they certainly have an economic interest at stake or in play. If we can return to our previous segment about Posse Comitatus. There is no doubt that in the West over a period of decades you have the Silver Shirts; the Klan was active in the West; Posse Comitatus was active. So the white supremacists have influenced political discourse in the West. But the Mormons were also active. While the LDS was not officially aligned with the John Birch Society, leading members of the LDS were. And the Mormons had their own take on county supremacy, their own interpretation of the divine nature of the Constitution and America. Mormons see themselves as saving America at a time of dire need. So you cannot omit the religion or the religious ideas of participants from the analysis. As James Aho wrote in the 1990s, the Christian patriots came in different flavors and not all were racist anti-Semites. That is not to say they had great positions on race or Jews, but they were not overt racists like the Christian Identity movement which gets far more credit than it deserves. Alright, take us through the onset of the Battle of Bunkerville and how Rhodes became involved. The Battle of Bunkerville is really about the Bureau of Land Management trying to enforce three court orders that Cliven Bundy, a Mormon rancher using federal lands, requiring Bundy to pay his grazing fees to the BLM. At the outset I want to remind your listeners that in 2018 a federal judge dismissed all the charges against Cliven Bundy due to the DOJ withholding evidence and other misconduct. And in 2020, the 9th Court of Appeals dismissed the case with prejudice. The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the BLM made the Bundy clan heroes in the West and the right-wing in general. To enforce the last court order, the BLM decided it was going to seize Bundy's cattle. Bundy put out a call for help and hundreds of militia personnel and other supporters turned up at his ranch in Nevada. The Oath Keepers and Rhodes personally are part of a gaggle of unorganized militia that show up to protect Bundy and prevent “another Waco.” Security at the Bundy ranch is a three-ring circus. Bundy hired his own personal protection as the inner ring. The ad hoc militia is the second ring. They were more a danger to themselves than the federal law enforcement that showed up. The outer ring was the Oath Keepers who patrolled the perimeter. The Oath Keepers thought the ad hoc militia in the second ring were nutjobs. When Rhodes thinks you are crazy, you must be out there. Eventually there is an armed standoff. The BLM backs down. The cattle were released. And then starts the long legal fiasco of the DOJ, FBI, and BLM becoming the Keystone Kops of federal prosecutions. How about the Oath Keepers departure? That ruffled some feathers, right? Rhodes loves to portray the Oath Keepers as active, retired, and former military who are professionals. He touts that some members are Delta, Special Forces, Rangers, or Marines. Rhodes himself was only an E-4, an airborne qualified specialist. So during the Battle of Bunkerville, Rhodes claimed that the Obama administration is planning a drone strike on the entire Bundy Ranch compound. He claims there is a source inside the Pentagon. This source in the Pentagon comes via a source in Texas who called Rhodes. Rhodes took this “intel” to the head of security for Bundy. The Texas source and the security chief talked. Then Rhodes claimed that he had an Oath Keeper in Texas who had the same background as the Texas caller: ex-CIA, ex-Delta. The Texas Oath Keeper confirmed that the Texas caller had a verifiable background in Delta and the CIA, but the information could not be corroborated and could be disinformation. Rhodes then claimed that he had a second source in the Nevada governor's office who had previously given them “intel” that had been deemed to be true. And so with that inconclusive reporting that shades towards at best an unfounded rumor and at worst disinformation, Rhodes pulls out of the Battle of Bunkerville and becomes the laughingstock of the right-wing. His reputation is saved by Three Percent founder Mike Vanderboegh who concluded in his after-action review: “Their failure was not one of cowardice as has been alleged…. The failure was one of lack of hard-headed analysis and an equal lack of hard-hearted decision taking.” Looking back, what do you see as the long term legacy of the Battle of Bunkerville? I think it has only emboldened the right-wing. After Bunkerville, the Bundy clan then seized the Malheur nature preserve. The DOJ and FBI prosecution was again bungled, and Ammon Bundy walked out a hero. He is now leading his own militia against any sensible COVID policies to end this pandemic. Of course, the strategic position of the United States has changed since the Battle of Bunkerville. The West is being ravaged by massive forest fires, life-threatening heat domes, and growing droughts. The idea that climate change is not responsible is growing less tenuous by the day. There is much less urgency to transfer public lands to billionaires, but much sharper, fiercer battles out West are coming. People in the West are facing an existential crisis. I lived and traveled in the West. Water is the most precious resource. People kill for water. And water resources are shrinking. In 1982, the RJR Tobacco company commissioned a strategic report on the nine nations of the United States. Much of the West was called “The Empty Quarter.” Ironic that Big Business would call a large portion of the West the “Empty Quarter” while right-wing groups are fighting against the mythical Agenda21 they believe will empty the West of people. The strategic report warned that “Enormous conflict is anticipated over water supplies, electric power, pollution and physical destruction of national wilderness areas. Most of the U.S. portion of the Empty Quarter is controlled by the federal government.” It concluded that the major battle over water would pit the cities against the oil companies. In that regard I do not think much has changed. But there is one other legacy of Bunkerville relevant today. Bunkerville and Malheur demonstrated that the Department of Justice and the FBI are very capable of blowing slam dunk prosecutions through their misconduct and incompetence. The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys conspiracy cases related to the January 6 insurrection are going to be fascinating. This will be the probable end of Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers. Let us hope that the DOJ and FBI do their jobs properly.

Tonight's edition features new tunes from Sarah Davachi, Christina Galisatus, The Grid + Robert Fripp and plenty more! Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′00″ Empire by The Grid + Fripp on Leviathan (The Grid and Robert Fripp)

Janey McGill is an explorer, writer and photographer. She is part of the newest generation of explorers leading physically, culturally and socially challenging expeditions around the globe.  Janey is a military veteran serving 4 years as a soldier with the Honourable Artillery Company. In this interview, Janey recounts her expedition across Arabia’s infamous desert, the Rub’ al Khali, known in the west as the Empty Quarter.  A vast desert wilderness of which much remains unexplored.  A land of searing heat and frigid nights, and home to a friendly and generous people.  Along the way she encounters the mysterious Jinn.  Spirits that have been part of the Arab culture for thousands of years.  She also discusses the challenges of expedition leadership and the hard lessons she is learning along the way.    Janey's website and blog is at JaneyMcgill.com Hosted by Michael J. Reinhart Adventure Writer and Photographer MichaelJReinhart.comAdventureandExplorationPodcast.com 

Laurie Woolever reflects on the life and legacy of Anthony Bourdain and takes us on a journey through the eyes of the late chef, from the cosmopolitan bustle of Buenos Aires to the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter.

My guest in this podcast is Bruce Kirkby. He is a Canadian wilderness writer and adventure photographer who has been recognized for connecting wild places with contemporary issues. Over his 30 year career, he has traveled through 80 countries, and his accomplishments include being on the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter desert by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s norther coast and a trek across Iceland.  He is a columnist for the Globe and Mail, and author of two bestselling books.  Our conversation focuses on his newest book Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya. He and his wife took their two young boys (ages 7 and 3) on a journey to visit a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the mountains of the Himalayas, and he describes what they learned about life, about priorities, and their son’s autism.Listen in! You won’t be disappointed.—Richelle Wiseman: website | linkedin | facebook

Leon McCarron on Slow Travel and Misunderstood Places. In this episode, Ash meets Leon McCarron: writer, broadcaster, and North Face explorer. Leon has walked a 1000-mile loop of the Holy Land, crossed China from north to south, and travelled on foot in Kosovo, Armenia and on the Yemeni island of Socotra. He has also cycled 14,000 miles across three continents, walked through the Empty Quarter desert, and ridden across Patagonia on horseback. Leon's work seeks out stories of humanity and nuance in parts of the world that are often demonised or misunderstood by Western media.  In this episode, discover: About Leon's 1,000 mile walk through the Middle East (including why Leon and Pip found themselves walking along a smugglers route in Jordan!). Why Leon's travels turned from journeys focused on landscapes to those focused on people and what he's learned as a result. How to tell powerful stories - the power and use of journaling, and why less is more. How Leon created his career path. How Leon enjoys telling stories by travelling on foot. Why reading works by local authors not only aids understanding but also excitement about visiting a country. Leon's experience witnessing the Arbaʽeen Pilgrimage that takes place in Iraq. How and why Leon has helped establish new walking trails in central China and northern Iraq. Why people's careers are not always what they appear. Why you might want to avoid googling popular travel destinations. Links mentioned in this episode: Leon website https://www.leonmccarron.com Leon Instagram https://www.instagram.com/leonmccarron/ Leon Twitter https://twitter.com/leonmccarron?lang=en Leon's book: The Land Beyond https://www.leonmccarron.com/writing1.html Rob Lillwall https://roblilwall.com Alastair Humprehys https://alastairhumphreys.com Arbaʽeen Pilgrimage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbaʽeen_Pilgrimage The Long Form Podcast https://longform.org/podcast Our Man in the Middle East https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rmkcd Ramblings with Claire Balding https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006xrr2/episodes/player On Writing by Stephen King Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells JOIN US ON SOCIAL: We'd love to hear what you think of this week's The First Mile and if you've got any suggestions of topics or people you'd like to hear interviewed. Drop us a line on Instagram @AshBhardwaj and @PipStewart or Twitter @AshBhardwaj and @PipStewart. *Please consider leaving a review if you enjoyed this episode. Thank you! 

Levison Wood is one of the world’s most well-known explorers, TV presenters and authors. Join him for a 5,000-mile journey through the heart of the Middle East, from the front lines of Iraq and Syria through the Empty Quarter desert to Yemen, the West Bank and beyond. 13 countries in five months, his most complicated and dangerous expedition yet. Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, we will pass through some of the most devastated and war-torn areas on the planet, but also some of the most fascinating and historic too. We will peel back our preconceptions and discover a hidden side to the Middle East, beyond the headlines and politics. This is the real Arabia, a mosaic of the best and worst of humanity, a quest to better understand the region and, perhaps, ourselves.Highlights include:· Hear how one totally random chance event changed his life and led him to become one of the world’s most famous explorers· Hitchhiking to Baghdad during the Gulf war – hear the story of Levison’s first and craziest ever adventure as a young university student· Follow him to the front line, as he embeds with Kurdish fighters in Iraq, liberating ISIS held cities · Discover the Mesopotamian Marshes, the jewel of southern Iraq, where one of the most ancient cultures in the world is slowly rebuilding their lives· Cross the Empty Quarter desert on foot, 10-days through one of the harshest environments on the planet· Sneak into Yemen and cross over into Somalia by fishing boat, through the most pirate infested waters on Earth· Explore Jerusalem, and the West Bank, joining a demonstration that turns into a riot “This is a story of my own wanderings set against a backdrop of interesting times. I have tried to challenge the prevailing winds where possible and contest stereotypes, hopefully smashing a few myths along the way.” - Levison WoodWho’s the Guest?Levison Wood is a British explorer, writer and photographer. He's written seven best-selling books, presented and produced some of the best travel and adventure documentaries out there, and done some quite simply incredible expeditions. Highlights include, walking the 4,250-mile length of the Nile River, trekking 1,700-miles across the Himalayas, and following in the footsteps of the annual migration of African elephants through Botswana, in order to raise awareness of the plight of these critically endangered animals. His latest book is Encounters, a beautiful hardback photography book which documents the last 15 years of his adventures. To buy these, or find more, please visit: https://www.amazon.com/Levison-Wood/e/B00QXKKPTC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Instagram:@levison.wood / Facebook: @levisonwoodofficial / Twitter: @levisonwood www.levisonwood.comArmchair ExplorerThe Armchair Explorer podcast is adventure storytelling set to music and cinematic effects. Each episode one of the world's greatest adventurers tell their best story from the road. To find more about this episode, including background info, photos, and videos, please visit: https://www.armchair-explorer.com/post/arabia-a-5-000-mile-journey-through-the-heart-of-the-middle-east-with-explorer-levison-wood "Best travel podcasts 2020: Every episode is an immersive experience" - The Guardian"Best podcasts for pure escapism: It’s thrilling stuff." - Sunday Times"Finalist: Best Overal Podcast 2020" - DiscoverPods Awards

Episode 36: Lose Yourself to Find Yourself with Bruce Kirkby “My biggest fear is that when I die the person I am meets the person I could have become.” – Author Unknown Our guest today is a truly extraordinary individual and one of the world’s leading wilderness experts. Bruce Kirkby grew up in Toronto as an engineering physicist by trade, but he had that itch that there was more to life than simply going through the same boring motions each day. Despite almost failing English in high school, Bruce became a wilderness writer and adventure photographer, and today he’s visited 80+ countries and is renowned for connecting wild places with contemporary issues. Some of his most notable accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s northern coast, and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. Bruce is the author of three bestselling books, winner of multiple National Magazine Awards, and has been featured in The New York Times. His TV show Big Crazy Family Adventure was released by the Travel Channel in 2015 and followed Bruce’s journey with his wife and two young children from their home in Canada to India with one condition – the only mode of transportation they couldn’t use was airplanes. In this interview, we'll look at: The moment when Bruce realized the traditional path wasn’t for him When he was taken hostage at gunpoint in Ethiopia What it was like traveling with his young family to Mt Everest and the Great Wall of China Lessons from living in a Buddhist Monastery in Tibet How to escape the modern grind and start enjoying life, and Parenting tips for 2020 and beyond. Perhaps the best lesson from this interview is how to reconnect with what it means to be human. Bruce has an incredible energy, some amazing stories, and I know you’re going to love this episode! _ YouTube version: https://youtu.be/7gheyelj70M Blog version: https://jameswhitt.com/newsletters/ _ Show links:

My guest in this episode is crazy, and that is just one of his many strengths. Bruce Kirkby does not take life sitting down, unless he is exploring remote coasts and waterways in a canoe or kayak. His idea of a hike is not a loop in a nearby forest but instead a trek across jungles and deserts and entire landmasses. He plans 6-month rustic, transcontinental excursions with less stress than most people plan a plush weekend getaway. I devoured Bruce's recently-released book, Blue Sky Kingdom, which details his family's ambitious and arduous overland and oversea journey from their home in British Columbia, all the way to a remote Buddhist village in Northern India nestled in the Himalayas between the borders of Pakistan and Tibet. Here his family lived in a monastery and slept in a room the size of a closet for many months. With journeys spanning more than 80 countries and 2000 days, Bruce's accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia's Empty Quarter by camel, a raft descent of Ethiopia's Blue Nile Gorge, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo's northern coast, and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. Bruce is a prolific writer and photographer and is incredibly likable. His rich storytelling is valuable as both mental fodder and soul medicine. He guides us along many inspirational and shocking stories in this episode. He also vulnerably shares personal struggles and triumphs in his life, including an unhealthy relationship with his phone, a life dedicated to purpose, and fathering a son on the autism spectrum. This episode is itself a journey of many lessons of life, with wonders around every mountain switchback. Please enjoy this conversation on Salish Wolf with Bruce Kirkby. Episode Links: brucekirkby.com Blue Sky Kingdom by Bruce Kirkby “Big Crazy Family Adventure” on the Travel Channel Anchor Point Links: Bow Building Retreat at Anchor Point Expeditions

In this podcast episode I sit down with the powerful Bruce Kirkby as he shares his lessons, stories and incredible experiences that have shaped him into the adventure man he has become today. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as i did. BRUCE KIRKBY is a wilderness writer and adventure photographer recognized for connecting wild places with contemporary issues. With journeys spanning more than eighty countries and thirty years, Kirkby’s accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s northern coast and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. A columnist for The Globe and Mail, author of two bestselling books and winner of multiple National Magazine Awards, Kirkby has also written for the New York Times, Outside magazine and Canadian Geographic. I LOVE BRUCE'S NEW BOOK- https://bookshop.org/books/blue-sky-kingdom-an-epic-family-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-himalaya-9781643135687/9781643135687 Check Out Bruce @https://www.instagram.com/brucekirkby/ Check out Glen @https://www.instagram.com/glenyg96/ NEW HERE? My name is Glen Younggregoris. I am a world traveller & Podcast Host Based In Beautiful Northern Ontario, I upload New Videos Weekly To Youtube and Podcasts Every 2 weeks. Support The Channel By subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Mf... or Following on Spotify & giving a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts. This will help with my passion project of impacting and inspiring people and connections through stories and experiences. This is a community I started early 2019 because I love storytelling. I fully believe you can learn so much about yourself and someone else and connect on such a powerful level through storytelling. Using the power of storytelling i want to inspire people to create the best memories and make the most out of their lives so that when they look back on their books of life they can be proud of what the final copy looks like. Channel Music Done By World Peace https://open.spotify.com/album/0Jf5Fu... Support this community @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Mf... *SEND QUESTIONS TO ME THROUGH INSTAGRAM: @ https://www.instagram.com/glenyg96/

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a British explorer and expedition leader whose feats include hover-crafting over the Nile, travelling longitudinally around the globe and completing the Sahara’s Marathon Des Sables aged 71. Ran’s ventures in Oman began in the 60s when he served in the Sultan’s Armed Forces in the Dhofar Rebellion. Over subsequent decades, Ran returned to Oman frequently to search for “Atlantis of the Sands”, or the legendary lost frankincense city of Ubar, which he remarkably found in 1992. In recent years Oman has continued to play a significant role in his life – even infusing Omani date palms into Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ Great British Rum (https://www.sirranrum.com/)! Hear him tell stories of his time in the Army and the Empty Quarter, tips for aspiring adventurers, and his fond memories of the Sultans. _________Anglo Omani Society accounts:Instagram: angloomanisocietyLinkedin: The Anglo-Omani SocietyTwitter: @AngloOmaniSOCFacebook: The Anglo-Omani Society

We first spoke with Janey in November 2018 when Janey shared more about her early life, the challenges she has faced and overcome; from breaking her back in a horse riding accident to losing her purpose and way. We also discuss her solo 630-mile trek on the South West Coast Path.    https://www.toughgirlchallenges.com/single-post/Janey-McGill   During this podcast we catch up with Janey and find out what she’s been up to since November 2018, she discusses conflict, the loss of her father, the challenges of leading a team. As well as sharing more about filming and writing a book about the expedition and her plans for the future.    Show notes Who is Janey How she would describe herself Doing what makes her happy Wanting to cross the Empty Quarter How things have changed Dealing with weaknesses and insecurities Having no where to run when in the desert How the team evolved Funding the challenge (savings, compensation, sponsorship and debt) Having Land Rover support the expedition with vehicles Doing something new for the first time Figuring out problems as she went on Getting to the start line! Feeling unfulfilled and not knowing what do to with her life Going thru a grieving process for the life she wanted Exploring relationships and conflict Why it’s ok to think differently Why you can’t make everyone happy “We don’t have to be friends to be a team” Being filmed while out in the desert Creating a documentary Writing a book about the experience and the challenges involved… Spending time with her dad at the end of his life Forgiveness? Figuring out purpose constantly  Choosing not to have children Racing Heroes  Future dreams Quick Fire Questions     Social Media   Website - http://www.janeymcgill.com    Instagram @janey.mcgill    Facebook @janeymcgillexplorer   Watch the short film on Youtube

Mark Evans is the Executive Director of Outward Bound Oman. In 2016, starting from Salalah, Mark and two Omani companions set out on a 49 day expedition to cross Arabia’s Empty Quarter, in the footsteps of explorer Bertram Thomas. Mark had led numerous expeditions to the high Arctic, including a year-long project that included four months of total darkness on the Norwegian Archipelago, Svalbard. In this Podcast, Mark explores what lessons can be learnt from his experiences and how they can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. _________Anglo Omani Society accounts:Instagram: angloomanisocietyLinkedin: The Anglo-Omani SocietyTwitter: @AngloOmaniSOCFacebook: The Anglo-Omani Society

What makes going from A to B an adventure, not a destination? A map can show you the layout of a place, but its emotional geography is something that takes a bit more time and skill to uncover. Leon McCarron is a Northern Irish adventurer, filmmaker, writer and motivational speaker, who believes in the importance of a slower pace to truly understand the world and its people, whether walking 3000 miles across China or trekking 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter. Malachy Tallack is a writer, editor and singer-songwriter from Scotland whose non-fiction books Sixty Degrees North and The Un-Discovered Islands both fuse nature writing, history and memoir. The discuss their adventures at Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2019.

Leon McCarron is a Northern Irish storyteller and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Leon walked 3,000 miles across China which took him six months while filming for a National Geographic TV show. He also cycled 14,000 miles from New York to Hong Kong and trekked 1,000 miles through the Empty Quarter desert in Oman which became a feature length film, Into the Empty Quarter, and was premiered at the Royal Geographical Society in London. His first book, The Road Headed West, is an Amazon Top 10 Bestseller. His latest book is The Land Beyond: A Thousand Miles on Foot Through the Heart of the Middle East. He speaks to Emirates ICE ahead of his appearance at Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in 2019.

Welcome back! This week we have an amazing interview with wilderness writer and adventure photographer Bruce Kirkby. Bruce is recognized for connecting wild places with contemporary issues. With journeys spanning more than 80 countries in 2000 days, Bruce's accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia's Empty Quarter by camel, a raft descent of Ethiopia's Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo's Northern coast, and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. Bruce is a columnist for The Globe and Mail, author of two bestselling books, and a multi-National Magazine Award winner. Bruce's writing has appeared in The New York Times, EnRoute, Huffington Post, Explore, and Canadian Geographic. His photographic clients include Patagonia, Lululemon, Time, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, and MacLean's. He's a winner of a prestigious Western Magazine Award, and Bruce's photography was selected by National Geographic as among the most compelling adventure images of the decade. In this conversation, we talk about some of his latest adventures, his latest book, and what he's been up to with regards to keeping his family busy and active. This interview gathered some insights into pushing the limits, building a life around your passions and interests, and also developing your skills and executing them under conditions that are extraordinarily difficult. Please enjoy my conversation with adventurer, Bruce Kirkby! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-greg-wells/support

What are desert locusts?Desert locusts are a type of insect which have been threatening agricultural production in Africa, Asia and the Middle East for centuries. They are phytophagous, which means they feed on plants. In early 2020, these locusts have invaded several countries in East Africa, destroying vegetation everywhere they go. Experts fear the risk of famine, in a part of the world where many already live with food insecurity. To really understand what’s brought about the current upsurge, you have to go back to May 2018 and the Empty Quarter desert in the Arabian Peninsula. A cyclone and heavy rains created a warm, wet climate, which was ideal for desert locusts to breed and flourish. This area has no roads and is therefore not closely monitored by humans. A second cyclone later the same year enhanced this problem, with three generations of breeding occurring undetected. The locusts started migrating towards Yemen, where a civil war prevented any intervention, and then onto the horn of Africa. Just as countries were trying to contain the breeding in late 2019, Tropical Cyclone Pawan struck. The situation was already becoming out of control and it has only gotten worse since.Somalia has declared a state of emergency, while several other countries are already facing their worst infestation for decades. There were six major locust outbreaks in the 20th century, with the last taking place between 1987 and 1989. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, desert locusts appeared at the border with South Sudan and Uganda at the end of February 2020. That was the first time since 1944, when the insects caused a famine. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has already confirmed this is the worst locust outbreak to hit the Horn of Africa for 25 years. Many are already referring to the current situation as a plague, and there’s no telling how much worse it could get. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A passionate adventurer, author and film maker: Alastair Humphreys' explorations of the earth are manifold.He has spent over four years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and five continents. He walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara Desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain, participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole, and has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert.When he was named as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the year for 2012 however, it was for a much humbler endeavor: for creating and promoting the philosophy of microadventure.In this episode of Unfolding Maps, Alastair talks about great and small adventures – and how they can enrich our lives.Alastair on the web:www.alastairhumphreys.comFacebookInstagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you have enjoyed this book, you could help me a great deal by: Leaving a review on Amazon. This is so helpful. Sharing a photo of the book cover on social media. Use the hashtag #TheDoorstepMile. Giving your copy to someone who might benefit from it.  Thank you.If you'd like to follow me online you can: Sign up for the Living Adventurously and Shouting from the Shed newsletters on my website.  Follow me on social media: @al_humphreys Subscribe on YouTube: search for Alastair Humphreys Visit alastairhumphreys.com/thedoorstepmile for resources About the authorAlastair Humphreys is an English adventurer and author who finds it weird to write about himself in the third person. He has cycled around the world, walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. Alastair has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. He was named as one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the year for 2012.Alastair is a patron of the Youth Adventure Trust, Hope and Homes for Children, Outdoor Swimming Society, Yorkshire Dales Society and the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.★ Support this podcast ★

Mojo plus oneI was once part of a team planning, training and fund-raising for an expedition to the South Pole. It was going to be a cracking adventure. I loved the guys I was working with. I was stronger than I had ever been in my life. I would be able to write a fabulous book afterwards. They were exciting times.But the expedition bank account was empty. We failed to secure enough sponsorship, and the expedition had to be postponed. Season after season the funding deadline came and went. After five years I accepted that this season had been my final chance to get to Antarctica. I withdrew from the expedition. I had failed.I spent the next week in the pub feeling sorry for myself. We had poured so much time and effort into the expedition, placed our varied lives and ambitions on hold and come together in pursuit of this one dream. And all for nothing. It felt so unfair. Why wouldn't someone give me piles of their hard-earned money so that I could go on a chilly camping holiday? More pressingly, what was I going to do with my life now that the beautiful blankness of Antarctica stretching off into the distance had been exchanged for the stark emptiness of my calendar stretching off into the distance?Here's what I decided, in a welcome moment of clarity at the bottom of an inappropriately-early-in-the-day pint of lager. I was going to stop feeling sorry for myself. And I was going to stop blaming the world. From now on, I was going to take responsibility for my adventures rather than waiting for mystery angel investors to swoop down and make my dreams come true. I was going to see an empty diary as a wonderful opportunity rather than the mark of a loser. And I was going to make stuff happen. Myself. Now.Six weeks later, instead of hauling a stupidly heavy sledge through the vast, inhospitable wasteland of Antarctica, I began hauling a stupidly heavy cart through the vast, inhospitable wasteland of Arabia instead. Ever since I first read about Wilfred Thesiger a dozen years earlier, I had wanted to make a journey of my own into the Empty Quarter desert. After putting it off for so long, I now made the expedition happen in just a month and a half. Disappointment led to simplicity and action. I planned to walk across a section of the Empty Quarter desert from Oman to Dubai. It was appealingly romantic in concept and simple (though not easy) in execution. The critical act was committing to it. I blocked the dates off in my diary. (See: I was lucky to have an empty diary, not cursed.) Second, for a fiery injection of peer pressure and accountability, I told people what I was going to do. Then I recruited someone to come with me. I didn't really know Leon, though we would become good friends. It was enough that Leon's reputation suggested he was competent to handle what the trip demanded, enthusiastic about making it happen and willing to commit despite neither of us knowing what we needed to commit to. (I prefer not to ruminate on why I need to find a new partner for each big expedition and that nobody comes with me twice…)Finally, we booked our plane tickets. This was a necessary symbolic and financial declaration of intent: a point of no return. Throughout this book, I have chosen to advocate a deliberately gung-ho, flippant approach to planning and to life. I've done this because very few people need urging to be more cautious or pessimistic. The internet and your parents are bursting with sensible advice. I don't have anything of much use to add. Leon and I prepared, trained and learned as much as we could before our too-soon-but-set-in-stone departure date. It certainly was not perfect preparation, but very few things in life require perfection at first. Perfect is splendid, but good enough is usually good enough. And perfect is the enemy of done. Bodge things from what you already have. Scale back your ambition if you are short of time or money. Ask folk to help. Making do feels good.You will never simultaneously have sufficient time, money and mojo. All I ever hope for is 'mojo plus one'.The start of our Empty Quarter expedition was a farce. My favourite ones often are. This is what happens when you get going before you are ready. But the alternative would have seen me still at home two years later, deep in cart research, seeking funding and perfection, and hiding my lack of guts behind excuses. Whether you operate in the worlds of Minimal Viable Products, cajoling your kid away from a screen and into a stream, or merely making a crap cart to haul across a hot desert because it makes you feel alive, the principal remains the same. First, commit. Then, begin. Everything else follows.Our DIY desert adventure was seemingly a world away from the original South Pole journey I was so disappointed to have failed at. There were fewer penguins and less money: two thousand quid of my own cash versus £1,700,000 of corporate sponsorship. There was no glossy website or press release, no social media strategy or 'world first' record. No book deal or swanky speaking gigs.But the new expedition still contained the core ingredients that had enticed me into committing five years trying to get to Antarctica. A hard challenge with a friend, a journey in the footsteps of a hero in a land I would never otherwise have experienced, a good story and great memories. Leon and I successfully completed the trek and made a film, Into the Empty Quarter, that we were both proud of. Do I regret not making it to Antarctica? Hell, yeah! Did I enjoy the journey that transpired in its place? Very much. You can't always get what you want, sang the Rolling Stones, but if you try – sometimes – you get what you need. If you think that your life would be better by making a change, then why wait? The best time is now.Over to You: What are you over-thinking and over-planning?  How can you simplify it?  What would happen if you stopped planning and began immediately? ★ Support this podcast ★

Going for a bike rideI am often asked, ‘what is the hardest thing you have ever done?'Generally, they want to hear me boast of hauling a heavy cart through the Empty Quarter desert or battling to put up a tent in freezing temperatures. These things are difficult. Uncomfortable, too. But, honestly, they are not life-changingly difficult.There is only one adventurous act which has significantly altered the direction of my life. One warm summer morning, I climbed onto my bicycle and went for a ride, after a long sleep in my soft bed and a large breakfast.I often detect a look of mild disappointment on the questioner's face. ‘Going for a bike ride' is not the answer they wanted.But beginning trying to cycle around the world was the hardest part of all my adventures. Pedalling away in search of uncertainty and the great unknown. Everything interesting in my life has followed on from that.Changing direction is often harder than the new thing you are going to begin. For me, the change of direction was stepping away from the conventional world and sensible progression of work, promotion and bank holidays.To say, ‘I am going a different way' was frightening and isolating.It risked alienating people close to me. It risked being left alone, high and dry if the tide rushed out and everything changed. It risked failing. It risked a great deal.But, at the same time, it also eliminated another risk. The risk of getting old and wondering what might have been. The lesson of that sunny morning has served me well time and again. The hardest part of most things is summoning the nerve to climb onto your bicycle and push off down the street. The rest eventually takes care of itself. OVER TO YOU: What is the hardest thing you have ever begun? Reflecting back, how does it make you feel?★ Support this podcast ★

During World War II, an Englishman named T.E. Lawrence fought in the Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire. While travelling, “Lawrence of Arabia” learned of a majestic city that he dubbed “The Atlantis of the Sands”, a kingdom that been buried under the dunes of the Empty Quarter. But this lost city was well known … Continue reading Episode 46 – Beneath the Sands →

Hot Topics:Becky Lynch and Shayna BazslerGoldberg and The FiendBayley and Carmella are scheduled on Friday for the Smackdown Women's ChampionshipIs the United States title going in a different direction?  R-Truth, Rusev, Andrade, Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles and Erick Rowan will be in a first ever Tuwaiq Trophy Gauntlet match.  It will take place at WWE Super Showdown.  Shayna Baszler made her RAW debut and attacked Becky Lynch after Lynch successfully retained her title against Asuka.  But the way Baszler attacked Lynch had many questioning why did it come this way?  Baszler executed the Kirifuda Clutch and let go.  She removes her mouthpiece and bites Becky Lynch in the back of the neck.  She pulls up and has blood around her mouth.  Brandon Stroud, a pro wrestling editor from UPROXX, was dumbfounded by that move and that if they were going to do it right, it should have been more realistic than seeing fake blood.  The New York Post, Joseph Staszewski, wrote an article about the segment.  He stated that there was no need to portray Shayna Baszler as a vampire.  She is a respectable athlete who has accomplished so much.  She is a former UFC fighter, a former NXT Champion, and she is a big heel in the WWE.  I wonder if MIke Tyson, the former boxing heavyweight champion, was producing the show last night.  If you didn't know, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield in the ear that disqualified him in the contest.  Mike Tyson was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017.  Anyways, we need to know why Baszler bit Becky Lynch?  We already know there is bad blood between the two.  We can go back to Survivor Series.  Is this to show that it is official, that they do have bad blood?  This will definitely help the television ratings next week on Monday NIght RAW.And about television ratings, Smackdown numbers went up thanks to the special guest Goldberg.  Goldberg returned to Smackdown to give his answer on “who's next?”  He made the announcement during the interview with Michael Cole that “The Fiend Bray Wyatt” will be his next target.  It was later interrupted with the Fun House Breaking News.  Bray Wyatt accepted the challenge and the match will take place at Super SHowdown in Saudi Arabia for the Universal Championship.  This match can cause turbulence should Goldberg win. Let's check out the details:  Goldberg calling out your name means you are about to get jack-hammered.   When he came out of retirement, he targeted Brock Lesnar and won at Survivor Series 2016.  Goldberg became Universal Champion by defeating Kevin Owens.  Eventually, Lesnar won his rematch at WrestleMania to become the champion.  Goldberg was not given a rematch.  The Undertaker and Goldberg match was put together last year that did not favor anyone due to their performance.   It was in a month of June, super hot, and both superstars are pass their prime.  So there you go!Goldberg is determined to challenge The Fiend.  Should Goldberg win, we can suspect that Roman Reigns can be the next contender for the WWE Universal Championship.  The match would be the battle of the best SPEAR!  However, if The Fiend wins the match, the Goldberg story was just a one PPV hype for the Saudis.  And then, we would have to wait for the winner of the men's elimination chamber to find out who will be the number one contender to challenge The Fiend.  I stated this in previous episodes that the Undertaker should face The Fiend.  I believe it is the most common sense product that can steal WrestleMania.  It can be better than being shocked at seeing the Undertaker lose his first match at WrestleMania.  Should Undertaker decide to retire from wrestling, this would be the match.  And if so, The Fiend should lose to Goldberg and give up the belt.  There are so many scenarios that can be played with Goldberg and The Fiend.  I am hoping this is not just a one-stop shop for Goldberg.Speaking about the one-stop shop, we have the Women's Smackdown Championship for this Friday's Smackdown on FOX.  Bayley will defend her title versus Carmella.  Carmella became the number one contender by defeating Alexa Bliss, Naomi, and Natalya in a fatal-4-Way.  This would be a great storyline if both Carmella and Bayley had any verbal discussions prior to the match.  Naomi confronted Bayley but nothing happened thereafter.  Carmella was a surprise winner on all this.  Where can we go from here?  Many speculate that Sasha Banks would be Bayley's opponent at WrestleMania.  Let us all believe that Bayley will win her match and move on with her beef with Naomi.  This will formulate six women entering the elimination chamber and the winner will face Bayley at WrestleMania.  CarmellaLavey EvansNatalyaDana BrooksAlexa BlissSasha BanksBut what will happen if Carmella actually wins?  Nobody is really giving Carmella a shot but if she were to win, we can expect a rematch at the Elimination Chamber and add Nikki Cross to the Chamber.  Let us move on to the United States Championship Title.  The United States title will not be defended at the Super Showdown.  Instead, we will see the Tuwaiq Trophy Gauntlet match.  What is Tuwaiq?  Tuwaiq is a narrow escarpment that cuts through the plateau of Najd in central Arabia to the northern edge of the Empty Quarter desert near Wadi ad-Dawasir in the south.  The Saudi Arabia capital Riyadh is just beyond the horizon.  R-Truth, Rusev, Andrade, Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles and Erick Rowan will be the superstars competing in the match.  These are big names for this trophy.  R-Truth is no longer chasing the 24-7 title.  But, would he know where he will be at during the match?  Rusev and Bobby Lashley did not partake in the Royal Rumble.  Could they find a way to not fight and compete?  Aj Styles is in the line up and that is great news.  He has recovered from his injury he suffered at the Royal Rumble.  And Erick Rowan, it will be his first real competition since joining RAW.  Will we find out what he is carrying?  The gauntlet match will be interesting to see.  Any superstar has potential in winning this match.  The winner of this match can jump to be the number one contender for the United States title if Andrade loses.  Andrade was suspended for violating the wellness policy.  WWE decided not to strip the title because Humberto Carrillo is not ready for the belt around his waist.  Besides, Carrillo is busy handling family business with Angel Garza who happens to be in both RAW and NXT.  There will be some questions about Andrade's return from suspension and from Saudi Arabia with Zelina Vega, Carrillo, or anyone from the gauntlet match.  

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year at the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, William Atkins talks to Julia Wheeler about his experiences in eight deserts: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, … Continue reading William Atkins: Journeys in Desert Places: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2020

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year at the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, William Atkins talks to Julia Wheeler about his experiences in eight deserts: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, … Continue reading William Atkins: Journeys in Desert Places: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2020

Hard enduro expert Kirsten Landman officially finished the 2020 Dakar in 55th position, while Taye Perry completed the grueling race in 77th position. But both of these talented South Africans have been named as the first women from Africa to ever race and finish the Dakar on motorcycles! The 42nd edition of the Dakar took competitors over 7800km from the shores of the Red Sea in Jeddah, around the canyons and mountains of the western part of the country, over the dunes of the Empty Quarter and all the way to the Qiddiya Sports and Culture Complex near the capital Riyadh. Southern Africa had ten competitors who crossed our borders and made their way to the 2020 Dakar in Saudi Arabia, but it was two South African women who've made our country so incredibly proud. And Kirsten joins the Good Things Guy Brent Lindeque to chat about the gruelling race:

JacPod — Hard enduro expert Kirsten Landman officially finished the 2020 Dakar in 55th position, while Taye Perry completed the grueling race in 77th position. But both of these talented South Africans have been named as the first women from Africa to ever race and finish the Dakar on motorcycles! The 42nd edition of the Dakar took competitors over 7800km from the shores of the Red Sea in Jeddah, around the canyons and mountains of the western part of the country, over the dunes of the Empty Quarter and all the way to the Qiddiya Sports and Culture Complex near the capital Riyadh. Southern Africa had ten competitors who crossed our borders and made their way to the 2020 Dakar in Saudi Arabia, but it was two South African women who've made our country so incredibly proud. And Kirsten joins the Good Things Guy Brent Lindeque to chat about the gruelling race:

Would you like a more adventurous life?Are you being held back by a lack of time or money? By fear, indecision, or a feeling of being selfish or an imposter?Living adventurously is not about cycling around the world or rowing across an ocean. Living adventurously is about the attitude you choose each day. It instils an enthusiasm to resurrect the boldness and curiosity that many of us lose as adults.Whether at work or home, taking the first step to begin a new venture is daunting. If you dream of a big adventure, begin with a microadventure. This is the Doorstep Mile, the hardest part of every journey. The Doorstep Mile will reveal why you want to change direction, what's stopping you, and how to build an adventurous spirit into your busy daily life.Dream big, but start small. Don't yearn for the adventure of a lifetime. Begin a lifetime of living adventurously. What would your future self advise you to do? What would you do if you could not fail? Is your to-do list urgent or important? You will never simultaneously have enough time, money and mojo. There are opportunities for adventure in your daily 5-to-9.  The hardest challenge is getting out the front door and beginning: the Doorstep Mile. Alastair Humphreys, a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, cycled around the world for four years but also schedules a monthly tree climb. He has crossed the Empty Quarter desert, rowed the Atlantic, walked a lap of the M25 and busked through Spain, despite being unable to play the violin. The Doorstep Mile is Alastair Humphreys' 13th book.‘The gospel of short, perspective-shifting bursts of travel closer to home.' New York Times‘A life-long adventurer.' Financial Times‘Upend your boring routine… it doesn't take much.' Outside MagazineVisit www.alastairhumphreys.com to listen to Alastair's podcast, sign up to his newsletter or read his other books.@al_humphreys★ Support this podcast ★

In the 1940s, British gentleman explorer Wilfred Thesiger travelled extensively in one of the world's harshest environments - the Empty Quarter of Arabia. Thesiger lived with nomads in order to cross a desert that was then considered a place of mystery and death. He captured a final glimpse of their way-of-life before the arrival of the oil industry, and was inspired to write the classic travel book Arabian Sands. Simon Watts introduces recordings of Wilfred Thesiger in the BBC archive. PHOTO: Wilfred Thesiger (Pitt Rivers Museum via Bridgeman Images)

Today, we talk about how to live a life full of adventure, especially as a husband and father of young kids. Our guest today is living this out, and we talk about the ups, downs, and messiness of living this kind of life everyday. You'll learn some practical approaches to incorporate into your daily practice that will help you fight for the adventure in your life!Alastair Humphreys is a British Adventurer, Author and Blogger. He spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents.More recently Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, busked through Spain and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. He was named as one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the year for 2012.Alastair has written 11 books. Here's a link to his book "My Midsummer Morning" which we discussed in the interview: https://www.amazon.com/My-Midsummer-Morning-Rediscovering-Adventure/dp/0008331820Alastair is a patron of these charities:Youth Adventure TrustHope and Homes for ChildrenOutdoor Swimming SocietyYorkshire Dales SocietyYorkshire Dales Millennium TrustWebsite: www.alastairhumphreys.comTwitter and Instagram: @al_humphreys Full Bio:Click here. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alastairhumphreys/26486442982

Do you allow your lack of funds to dictate your travels or lack thereof? Are you looking for an epic adventure or are you more of a micro-adventurer? Today's guest is someone whose accomplishments will make you feel slightly guilty you didn't hit the gym yesterday since they include cycling around the world for 4 years, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, pulled a 600-pound sled across the Empty Quarter desert & for good measure, completed an unsupported trek across Iceland by foot and pack-raft. It’s no wonder that he was the 2012 National Geographic Traveler of the Year, and Geographic Magazine calls him “Slightly bonkers but this a wonderful thing”, Alastair Humphreys from AlastairHumphreys.com and author of 10 books, including the latest My Midsummer Morning.   Check out the full show notes

  Think about your life, particularly your routines. Yes, these can serve us – up to a point. They help us get on with life. In other ways, however, they are harmful. They can prevent us from learning and growing. They can get us stuck. Our thought patterns are similar - psychologists and neuroscientists talk about something called the “default mode network” – our familiar thought patterns. It's therefore good to disrupt our routines and patterns. Our latest guest is all about that. Alastair Humphreys has cycled around the world, rowed across the Atlantic, walked the 1,000 km Empty Quarter and completed loads of other rugged, tough, and risky adventures.  So, what does someone like this do for his next adventure? Well, with no musical training and a self-professed limited musical aptitude, he learns to play some basic notes and tunes on the violin - of course. And then spends a month busking in Spain as he walks from Vigo to Madrid, eating only from the money he earns busking. That's because adventure is not just about rugged men doing epic things. Adventure is about getting outside of your comfort zone.  This is something Alastair has pioneered through the concept of “micro adventures” – shorter adventures that are designed to get us outside of our familiar routines. He was even named National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year for his work on micro adventures. Alastair writes about his violin busking adventure in his wonderful book My Midsummer Morning in which he follows the footsteps of another Englishman, Laurie Lee who in 1935 completed the same journey and wrote As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, one of Alastair's favourite travel books. We talk about all of that and much more including: Alastair's background; The origins of My Midsummer Morning; Learning to play the violin; Fear and vulnerability, particularly the first time he played the violin in Spain; Observations from walking through rural Spain; Loneliness versus solitude; Balancing adventure with family; How to live more adventurously; Much more! Show Notes: Alastair's website; Alastair on Twitter; Alastair on Instagram; Alastair on YouTube; Alastair on Facebook; My Midsummer Morning; The Spotlight Effect; Alastair on micro adventures in Outside Online; Laurie Lee's As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Like what you heard? Subscribe and/or leave a rating and review on iTunes: http://apple.co/1PjLmK Subscribe on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/all-things-risk/the-all-things-risk-podcast Subscribe on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ben-cattaneo Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiskThings Drop us a note: allthingsrisk@gmail.com  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Our free course module “How to Set Up Any Decision for Success” from our upcoming course How to Make Decisions With Calm and Confidence

A former soldier with the Honorable Artillery Company, Janey was forced to give up her dreams of a military career after breaking her back in a horse riding accident. Janey has recently returned from Oman after walking across its infamous Empty Quarter as part of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic team. Read the postH+57 Janey McGill

Adventurer and author Alastair Humphreys talks to Tanya about why we all need to get outdoors more, reconnect with nature, and live more adventurously - and why our smartphone habit just might be stopping us doing that. Alastair spent over four years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and five continents. He's taken on numerous other challenges and adventures since then including; rowing the Atlantic, trekking 1,000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and walking 120 miles round London’s M25! (One of his pioneering ‘microadventures’). Alastair was one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year in 2012 and is the author of ten books about his adventures including ‘Microadventures: local discoveries for great escapes’ https://www.alastairhumphreys.com/product/microadventures/ and his book for children - ‘Great Adventurers’: https://www.alastairhumphreys.com/product/great-adventurers/ Follow Alastair on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/al_humphreys and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/al_humphreys and subscribe to the Alastair Humphreys YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsTMxQP7HUCRTuNEEQWLww. For more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and https://www.twitter.com/tanyagoodin Find 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' on Amazon: https://getBook.at/OFF And 'Stop Staring at Screens' is on Amazon too: https://getBook.at/STOPSTARING For more about Time To Log Off visit the website https://www.itstimetologoff.com Find us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow

This week Tanya is talking to power couple Ben and Marina Fogle about the challenges of parenting, and being partners, in a world of smartphones. Ben Fogle is an award winning broadcaster and adventurer. He is UN Patron of the Wilderness and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He has climbed Mount Everest, rowed across the Atlantic, raced across Antarctica to the South Pole, crossed the deserts of the Empty Quarter in the Middle East and is the author of nine Sunday Times bestselling books. Marina Fogle is the co-Founder of the immensely popular Bump Class antenatal classes in London, and host of The Parenthood Podcast, she writes for The Telegraph and The Times about pregnancy and motherhood and is the co-author of The Bump Class: An Expert Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond.  Find Ben on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benfogle and on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/benfogle Find Marina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marina.fogle and https://www.instagram.com/theparent.hood For more about Time To Log Off visit the website https://www.itstimetologoff.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow For more about Tanya Goodin visit https://www.tanyagoodin.com and https://www.twitter.com/tanyagoodin Find 'Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life' on Amazon: https://getBook.at/OFF And find 'Stop Staring at Screens' on Amazon: https://getBook.at/STOPSTARING

Growing up Janey spent the majority of time in wellies and a wax jacket covered in mud. When she wasn’t scooting round the fields bareback on her little Dartmoor pony she was playing in the woods with her brother and her dog. She then spent several childhood years in the bright lights of Las Vegas. Long summers were spent sneaking out while the folks were in bed. Exploring the desert and what the city had to offer. Swapping Geography degrees at the University of Exeter as a result of a more desirable field trip to the outback of New Zealand was a sign of things to come. Janey’s heart lies in the military where she spent four fulfilling years as a soldier with the Honourable Artillery Company. In an unfortunate twist of fate she suffered a serious back injury while training for a military horse race, the Royal Artillery Gold Cup. This halted her plans of joining the Army Legal Service as an Officer. Now a qualified lawyer but unable to fulfil her ambition in military law she embarked on a new business venture; a travelling art gallery, which flowed naturally into life modelling, presenting, running a bar and starting a jazz night; amongst other things. In December 2018, she will explore the female side of Oman with an all-female Anglo-Omani team. Together they will circumnavigate the country and attempt a first for female exploration; walking the length of Oman’s most formidable landscape, Rub’ Al Khali, The Empty Quarter. She currently resides in rural SW France surrounded by dogs and horses. Show notes Living in rural SW France trying to find her way  Wanting to join the army as a lawyer Breaking her back  Setting up a travelling art gallery and doing it for 5 years Becoming lost and not knowing what to do and which direction to travel in  Growing up in the country side and Las Vegas! Deciding to join the army reserves  What it was like and wanting to ride in the Royal Artillery Gold Cup Suffering a serious back injury Adjusting to life after the army and her injury Deciding to walk the South West Coastal Path How much time she decided to give herself to plan and prepare for this trip Starting the challenge in July 2015 Coping with her emotions while walking Only wanting to look forward Other issues while on the SW Coast Path Dealing with her family while on the trip Why she picked the sunflower to plant Deciding what she wanted to next and why she wants to continue pushing herself physically Post Traumatic Growth Doing the Dartmoor Way - walking and raising money at the same time (90 miles in 39 hours) The high points, the low points and what she learned Wanting to stop because of the pain and how she kept on going What she’s thinking about while on the challenge What she got from the challenge The next big walk/challenge Why she picked Oman The catalyst and why she needed to change Why it’s about the conversations Starting on the 1st December and finishing on the 1st January How the journey is going to be documented How’s she funding the trip What she’s focusing on in the follow few months Keeping her team together The biggest challenge she thinks she will face while over in Oman Team dynamics in extreme environments Why patience is the hardest thing Connecting with Felicity Aston Final words of wisdom Social Media Website - www.janeymcgill.com  Twitter - @JaneyMcgill Instagram - @gijaneyadventures      

"The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places," features William Atkins' travels across five continents over three years, visiting deserts both iconic and little-known to discover a realm as much internal as physical. His journey takes him to the Arabian Peninsula's Empty Quarter and Australia's nuclear-test grounds; the dry Aral Sea of Kazakhstan and ‘sand seas' of China's volatile north-west; the contested borderlands of Arizona and the riotous Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert; and the ancient monasteries of Egypt's Eastern Desert. Along the way, Atkins illuminates the people, history, topography, and symbolism of these remarkable but often troubled places.

Imagine you get the chance to go on a Grand Adventure … walking across the Arctic to the North Pole, or walking to the South Pole, or maybe climbing to the very top of Mount Everest. Which adventure would you choose? If you’re Adrian Hayes, you pick all three, and then do all three in world record time. Mr. Hayes has held the Three Poles Challenge world speed record, after he walked to the North Pole, and the South Pole, and climbed Mount Everest—in nineteen months and three days. It’s called the Three Poles Challenge because explorers try to reach the two farthest-apart points on earth, and the very highest point. Mr. Hayes tried out lots of different jobs on the way to becoming an adventurer. He worked as a bricklayer, a farmer, and a builder’s worker. He sang and played guitar in a rock band. He was a paramedic with the Special Air Services before going to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. As a British officer in the Brigade of Gurkhas, he served in Hong Kong and Brunei, and later, with the Royal Army of Oman. And he learned to speak Arabic and Nepali. After leaving military service and working as a sales director, Mr. Hayes began his climbing and trekking adventures. He followed up the Three Poles Challenge by crossing 1,600 kilometers of the Arabian Desert, on foot and on camel. This area is called the Empty Quarter and it’s the largest “sea” of sand in the world. In 2014, he and his team reached the top of K-2, the world’s second tallest mountain. K-2 “was my biggest challenge,” he says, because it is “way steeper” than nearby peaks, and its weather conditions are much worse. Climbing is his favorite adventure, he adds, because you’re in a different world. You have to stay really focused and think only of your next move. Mr. Hayes is the first Briton and only the third person in the world to reach the summit of the two highest mountains and to trek to both the North and South poles. His advice for kids who wonder what adventures they might have? “Write down your goals for the year,” a few months at a time. Figure out what your skills are. And if you’re not sure, ask your teachers or parents!

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British explorer and world record holder, describes today’s #RunYourLife podcast guest as having ‘Enormous determination, lateral thinking, and a love for life and adventure’.  Whether it be circumnavigating the globe by bicycle over 4 straight years, rowing 3000 miles across the Atlantic, running the Marathon des Sables which is one of the most gruelling footraces on earth, walking across Iceland pulling a sled, or inspiring others to embark on adventures of their own, Alastair Humphreys exemplifies what it means to pursue both personal and professional excellence. In this episode, Alastair shares the major lessons that he has learned through his life of adventure; hardship and resilience, goal-setting, failure, mindset, determination, and his love of culture and exploring our beautiful earth. In 2012 Alastair was recognized by the National Geographic as being one of their Adventurers of the Year through the work he has done spreading the power and value that microadventures can hold in our daily lives. Looking at the world with wonder and curiosity has allowed Alastair to tackle these extraordinary challenges with an open-mind, knowing that there are gems to be discovered along every step of the way and every pull of the oars. And it’s these gems that Alastair has shared with countless school children and teachers from around the world. You are sure to find great takeaway value in today’s #RunYourLife podcast with Alastair Humphreys. Thanks for listening. Bio: Alastair’s quest for adventure began young. Aged 8, he completed the 26 mile Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge and the National 3 Peaks in 24 hours aged 13. At 14 he cycled off-road across England. After leaving school Alastair taught for a year in South Africa. Whilst at university (Edinburgh and Oxford) Alastair cycled from Pakistan to China, Land’s End to John O’Groats, Turkey to Italy, Mexico to Panama and across South America. He ran a charity project in the Philippines and the London marathon dressed as a rhino.Since graduating Alastair has cycled round the world for 4 years, raced a yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, canoed 500 miles down the Yukon River and walked the length of the holy Kaveri river in India. Alastair has also run the Marathon des Sables, (finishing as one of the ten fastest Brits despite breaking his foot during the race) and rowed to France with a paralysed soldier. In 2010 he completed an unsupported crossing of Iceland by foot and packraft. In 2011 Alastair decided to remain in the UK in order to encourage people to seek out adventure and wilderness closer to home, challenging themselves through microadventures. In 2012 Alastair rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, did an expedition in Greenland and walked across the Empty Quarter desert. Since then he has concentrated on his microadventures, encouraging people to get out and fit more adventure into their busy lives. He has worked with clients including National Geographic, Talisker, Peugeot, Vodafone, GoPro and Adidas on this movement. Alastair’s book, Microadventures, was an Amazon UK Top 20 Bestseller for all books. Grand Adventures reached Number 8 for all books on Amazon UK. Alastair has published nine books and is a keen photographer and videographer. Alastair pays the bills through motivational speaking at businesses and schools, fulfilling a long ambition by speaking to a full house at the Royal Geographical Society. He was chosen as one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year in 2012. Alastair lives in a village outside London with his wife and two young children (hence the microadventures!) Connect with Alastair Website: http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/ Twitter:  @Al_Humphreys Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alastair-Humphreys-149963098097/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/al_humphreys/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/alhumphreys/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/englishwildman

The Rub' al Khali (الربعالخالي) literally means Empty Quarter in Arabic, and is the world's largest contiguous sand desert covering about 650,000 square km of land. To put that into perspective, the Rub' al Khali covers most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula with potions existing in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and of course, Oman. During the winter my mates Jonty and David joined me on the most epic off-road journey I have every embarked on. Destination: The Rub' al Khali. It's not the off-road conditions that make this journey epic, although they were challenging. But by no means extreme. It was the amazing views that stratified this journey for me. Pictures, words, or sounds cannot describe the feelings during this trip, but I'll try my best. We started off our Rub' al Khali journey in Muscat and drove all morning to petrol station one in Shib al Muqayrida where we filled up our tanks, grabbed some cool drinks, and started the GPS track recording. From here to the dunes is Oman's main oil area. The town of Fahud is the main camp, and it's clear you are in oil country. Oil operations began here in 1954, but commercial quantities didn't get discovered until 1964. I believe Fahud contributes to a majority of Oman's output, but I struggle to find current datainthe open source. But anyway, this place is super important for Oman. Out last interaction with parties outside our group was at our second petrol stop at Jibal. I carry about 130 liters of petrol onboard my magic carpeted ride, between the main and sub-tank. So, this stop isn't 100% necessary, but the jeeps don't carry as much, so we topped off as a precaution. The Jibal station is on private oil company land, and operates limited hours, closing for the typical early afternoon siesta, so don't rely on this station 100%. From here we go off-road and cross the salt plain basin of Umm as Samim (Mother of Poisons).The tracks are well used by the army and oil companies, so as long as you stayon the tracks you should avoid sinking below the dangerous crust. Take care if there is standing water after any rains. This place is a huge drainage basin where water collects from the Hajar Mountains. Makes you wonder if this is the reason why somuch oil and gas is found belowyourfeet. Satellite images illustrate the geography well. The sand dunes of the Rub'al Khali start just south of here, of which the largest are located just a few kilometers from the Saudi-Omani border. The third highest dune in Oman is located in this area, and is the focus of our journey. Our GPS measured it as 130m tall! On its own 130m doesn't sound very tall,but when you think about the fact that it's created by sand and wind alone, 130m truly comes into focus. This episode of the Sultanate covers our journey through the Rub' al Khali. The GPS track and important waypoints are located at www.beyondtheroute.com. We did this journey over the course of three days, and two nights. There aren't any campsites listed because this is the Empty Quarter after all, there's nobody around to bother you. Just pick what you like. Rub' al Khali Precautions and Safety Rules Bring a 4x4 in good working order. Bring safety and recovery equipment (shovel, kinetic rope, shackles first aid kit, fire extinguisher). Bring tools. Be clear on your route and navigation (GPS). Never go alone, minimum two vehicles. File your plan with a friend. Pack enough water (5 liters/person/day) + emergency water. Finally I'd like to add that the two nights spent in the Rub'al Khali were some of the darkest, most light pollution free nights I have ever had. Stargazing was off the charts! This Rub' al Khali journey is definitely beyond the route. So, come along and join us as we travel through the Sultanate. Follow the show and find more about Oman at: www.beyondtheroute.com Instagram Twitter Do you like what you hear? Be sure to tell a friend and tell me what you like in the comments at www.beyondtheroute.com. You can also leave the show a rating on iTunes. Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you.  

Into the Empty Quarter is an adventure film that follows Leon McCarron's journey through a vast region of the Arabian Desert. Beginning in Salalah Oman with teammate Alastair Humphreys, the two pulled a heavy cart containing their supplies for 1,000 miles to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Their adventure was inspired by the British explorer Wilfred Thesiger who wrote about his crossing of the desert in the book Arabian Sands. You can learn more about the movie and Leon at intotheemptyquarter.com and leonmccarron.com. Leon McCarron, welcome to The Pursuit Zone.