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Adventures Less Traveled
by John Schwenck
The Adventures Less Traveled podcast is an immersive video podcast that seeks those who trade comfort for risk and daringly venture into the unknown. There is no single definition of adventure. It is characterized by the experiences that shape each person’s unique perspective, and this podcast seeks to connect these dots through conversation.
Episodes
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25 | Rasmus Krath - Crossing the Darien Gap: Migration, Trafficking, and the Pursuit of Freedom
With no government presence, rampant cartel activity, and deadly terrain, the Darién Gap is one of the most dangerous migration routes on Earth—despite being less than 100 miles long. Every day, thousands of migrants from over 50 countries risk drowning, starvation, or violence as they attempt to...
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24 | Nathalia dos Reis Monteiro - Balancing Career and Adventure
Professional snowboarder and civil engineer Nathalia dos Reis Monteiro shares how she transitioned from training on sand dunes in Brazil to competing on snow-covered slopes in North America. As a full-time engineer in New York City, she reveals how she balances her demanding job with…
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23 | Chad Caruso - Pushing Through America
Chad Caruso made history by pushing his skateboard across America for 3,162 miles over 57 days, setting the world record as the first person to do so. In addition to this incredible feat, he has also completed various vlog challenges on his YouTube channel such as 30 tricks/30 days and 50…
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22 | Tom Turcich - The World Walk
Tom Turcich is the 10th person to walk around the world, and his loyal companion - Savannah - made history as the first dog to walk around the world. She offered a constant presence that helped fill the all-too-common void of isolation and loneliness as he walked over 28,000 miles over a seven…
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21 | Andrew Mortensen - First Known Openly Gay Man To Cycle The World
You may recognize Andrew Mortensen from a previous episode when he cycled from Neah Bay, Washington in the United States down to Patagonia during COVID back in 2020. Here we are 4 years later in 2024, and he's done it again. This time adding 25 more countries to his repertoire from Spain to...
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20 | Neil Laughton - Adventureholic
It's one thing to climb the tallest mountain in the world. It's another thing to have the world's highest black tie dinner party atop it. Neil Laughton is an "adventureholic" whose expeditions range from the classic seven-summits ascents, to the unusual such as rowing a bathtub around the Solent,...
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Order vs Chaos in Cave Diving | Edd Sorenson [BONUS CONTENT]
Edd Sorenson gives his take on the balance between the order of having rigid training and fundamentals and the chaos of exploring the unknown. GUEST LINKS - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edd_Sorenson - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaveAdventurers - Cave Adventurers Website:...
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19 | Edd Sorenson - Body Rescue & Recovery (Cave Diving Part 2)
Oftentimes cave diving doesn't go as planned, and when it doesn't, the most likely outcome is a slow inevitable death. Wedged between narrow gaps in caves with no means of escaping, divers become trapped and typically die by hypocapnia as a result. Of the individuals who are found and returned to...
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18 | Jill Heinerth - Exploring The Underworld (Cave Diving Part 1)
More people have been to outer space than to the underwater caves that Jill Heinerth has explored. She is world-renowned cave diver credited with exploration of both the deepest and longest caves in the world, the first ever descent of iceberg caves in Antarctica, and helped create the first ever...
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Journal Entry 06 | Adventure Book Club
Where are my adventure book worms at?? My 2024 reading list covering exploration, resiliency, escape, research, and everything in between! EPISODE LINKS - Charlie Walker JRE #1832: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0s6MNrgR48HxhoZpLZaJUn - Yeonmi Park JRE #1691:...
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17 | Dr. Clive Oppenheimer - Exploring Volcanoes
Few people on earth have ever seen erupting magma from an active volcano, been to North Korea, or been to the Mount Erebus volcano on Antarctica. One man has been to all three while pioneering academic research in the field of Volcanology - Dr. Clive Oppenheimer. He discusses the technical…
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Journal Entry 05 | 2023 Year-End Review
And just like that, 2023 has come and gone and the first year of the Adventures Less Traveled podcast in the books! An overview of guests and their respective topics, humorous mistakes along the way, top takeaways, and what to expect in 2024 is all discussed. PODCAST FEEDBACK FORM:...
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16 | Nicole Heker - Unlearning by Bike
During her studies at Penn State, a Sociology professor told Nicole Heker to "unlearn everything you know" during a lecture in order to form opinions of other cultures through first-hand experience. She took this to heart and set off on a cycling trip in 2018 from Thailand to Spain, crossing...
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Journal Entry 04 | Into the Wild
This week we dive deeper into the story of Into The Wild, the account of Christopher McCandless along with background on the Stampede Trail and origins of Bus 142. PODCAST FEEDBACK FORM: https://forms.gle/UZBJT6Bm9EpoL57h6 PODCAST INFO - Podcast Website: https://adventures-less-traveled.com -...
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15 | Ian Borowski - Bus 142 & Life in Alaska
Ian Borowski is an adventure filmmaker based out of Fairbanks, Alaska. Ian was quite possibly the last person to ever visit Bus 142 from the story of Christopher McCandless, made famous in the movie Into The Wild, and he documented his entire journey to get there. We discuss this, along with…
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Journal Entry 03 | Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z (Halloween Special)
In the spirit of Halloween, this week's Journal entry revolves around the mystery of one man, Percy Fawcett, and his unquenchable thirst for discovery for a civilization much more advanced than our own - the Lost City of Z. PODCAST FEEDBACK FORM: https://forms.gle/UZBJT6Bm9EpoL57h6 PODCAST INFO -...
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14 | Veronica Skotnes - Life at Sea
Veronica Skotnes lives her life at sea on a 42' boat up in the Arctic Circle near Finnmark, Norway. She works to clean marine waste from the Norwegian coast and helps log trash to better track and identify their origins in an effort to further ocean conservation. She has lived in her boat since...
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Journal Entry 02 | Wilderness Survival
We hear stories all too often of people who venture into the wilderness and don't make it out alive. Instead of chastising these people, I want to take a particular example from an article someone sent me and learn from it. A woman was hiking along the Appalachian Trail, got lost and didn't...
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13 | Kayleigh Grant - Shark Diving
Kayleigh (Kay) Grant is a professional shark diver based out of Kona, Hawaii who is the co-founder of a Kaimana Ocean Safari. She is actively involved in raising awareness of ocean conservation and the realities of the shark ecosystem. We discuss the wildfires in Hawaii, what it's like to swim…
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Journal Entry 01 | Host Intro & Guest Recap
Journal Entries (JE) are short, informal monologues during the "off weeks" that there are not guest interviews. They are meant to be snapshots that cover everything and anything pertaining to adventure at a particular moment in time - from news and current events around the world to behind the...
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12 | Andrew Mortensen - Cycling 17,000 miles to Patagonia
Andrew Mortensen was quite possibly one of the first people to foresee the inevitable economic destruction of COVID, working as a financial analyst for a major airline around the time of the initial wave. With graduate school on the horizon and a stroke of fortuitous timing, Andrew seized an...
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11 | Rich DeRose - 9/11 & Military Service
Rich DeRose is a U.S. Army veteran who served overseas in Iraq. We discuss the impact of September 11, 2001 and how that parlayed into Rich's decision to enlist in the military. We cover mental health, returning to civilian life, and triathlons. GUEST LINKS - Instagram: @the_richard_d PODCAST…
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10 | Antonia Staacke & Laura Möller - Failure & Resilience
Laura Möller and Antonia (Toni) Staacke set out to ride their bikes from Argentina to Alaska when tragedy struck them roughly halfway through. Toni crashed and suffered horrific adventure-ending injuries to her skull and collarbone, effectively ending the mission. We discuss the highs and…
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09 | Sean Tracy - Military, Mountaineering, & Marathons
Sean Tracy is a U.S. Navy veteran who served as a Search and Rescue (SAR) Swimmer and parlayed his military experience into other high-intensity pursuits. He is the first and only person to complete an expedition from the lowest point (Death Valley) to the highest point (Mt. Denali) in North...
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08 | Damian Browne - Trans-Atlantic Ocean Row
Damian Browne is collectively defined as an extreme adventurer. In 2022, he set the record as being the first person to row a boat across the Atlantic Ocean from New York City to Galway, Ireland, covering nearly 3,000 nautical miles. Shockingly, this was not his first time - in 2018, he rowed a...
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07 | Katrina Mohr - Wildland Firefighting
Katrina Mohr is a federal wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service based out in Idaho. Katrina has worked her way through the ranks over the past decade and has parlayed her experience into an educational blog, the5ftfirefighter.com to help others navigate through the minutiae of the...
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06 | Tyler Kempney - Ice Climbing
Tyler Kempney is an internationally-ranked ice climber from Boulder, CO who represents the USA Ice Climbing team. Ice climbing is often regarded as one of the most dangerous forms of mountaineering that involves ascending frozen waterfalls, ice sheets, and other ice formations using specialized...
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05 | Dr. Alison Criscitiello - Ice Core Research
Dr. Alison Criscitiello is an Ice Core Researcher and Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab (CICL) at the University of Alberta, whose career has led her to some of the most remote places on the planet including her recent expedition to Mount Logan to drill a record-breaking 327-meter ice core…
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04 | Caroline Soubayroux & David Ferguson - Guinness World Record Cycling Around The World
Caroline Soubayroux & David Ferguson broke the Guinness World Record for fastest circumnavigation around the world on two bikes by a married couple, during a global pandemic. It took them 202 days and the traveled through 21 countries, covering nearly 29,000 km (18,000 miles). Caroline & David...
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03 | Adam Westfall - Downhill Skateboarding
Adam Westfall is a professional downhill skateboarder from Golden, CO who was ranked 7th internationally in 2018. We discuss the fundamentals of downhill skateboarding, racing strategy, wrecks, other forms of skateboarding (longboarding, street luge, longboard dancing, etc.), and what it is like…
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02 | Eric Brymer - The Psychology of Adventure (Part 02)
Dr. Eric Brymer is a behavioral scientist at Southern Cross University as well as the Manna Institute in Australia. We explore the role of fear, how various environments prepare individuals for adventure, and the role of risk and one's respective exposure to it. Eric brings a unique perspective…
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01 | Paula Reid - The Psychology of Adventure (Part 01)
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Adventures Less Traveled podcast! Paula Reid and I discuss the emergence of the academic field of Adventure Psychology along with many of her own adventures that have helped shape her worldview and perspective. Let me know what you think in the comments and...
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Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
Welcome to the first season of the Adventures Less Traveled Podcast. Each episode will be released on a bi-weekly basis and will consist of interviews with guests who fall into one of the four following categories: (1) start-to-finish adventurers (2) professional adventurers (3) researchers, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Adventures Less Traveled podcast is an immersive video podcast that seeks those who trade comfort for risk and daringly venture into the unknown. There is no single definition of adventure. It is characterized by the experiences that shape each person’s unique perspective, and this podcast seeks to connect these dots through conversation.
HOSTED BY
John Schwenck
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