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Going to Extremes with Mark Jenkins
by Mark Jenkins
As a foreign correspondent for the past 30 years, Mark Jenkins has explored the most remote, difficult, and dangerous places on the planet. He will do whatever it takes to get the story. On assignment in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Tajik KGB and interrogated for a week. On assignment in Burma, he was arrested by the military junta multiple times. On assignment in eastern Congo, he was captured by the murderous Hutu guerillas. Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, says “Mark Jenkins purposefully goes out and taunts the gods. How he gets away with it is probably why he’s had 30 to 40 arrests---and no convictions.”
Episodes
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Snow Cave
Snow Cave
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Instinct
Going to Extremes
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Winter Camping
Winter Camping
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South Pole
South Pole
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New Year's Resolution
New Year's Resolution
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17 Vetex (Brotherhood of the Rope)
17 Vetex (Brotherhood of the Rope)
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Christmas
All I wanted for Christmas. There is probably no young boy in the world who doesn't dream about getting a motorcycle. I did, and this is what happened.
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Altai
Last of the first skiers in the Altai Mountains of far western China, where the snow is deep and the cold is deadly. Live a people who invented skis and still used them every day.
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Mt. Hood
Hiccup on Mount Hood. The most common mistake in mountaineering is to underestimate the mountain. This is a story about doing just that.
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Frostbite
To build a fire. Today's story is about making mistakes. We all make them. We just hope we don't have to pay too high a price.
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Bhutan
Bhutan
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Lost and Found
Lost and Found
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Deportation
Deportation
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Right In Your Own Backyard
Right In Your Own Backyard
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El Vedauwoo
El Vedauwoo (Part 1 and 2) - Today is the 18th anniversary of Todd Skinner’s death. Todd was the most famous climber Wyoming ever produced. He and I attended the University of Wyoming at the same time and we both learned how to climb hard in Vedauwoo. Thereafter, I became an alpinist and Todd...
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Rwenzori
Rwenzori
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The Bike Messenger
The Bike Messenger (Part 1 and 2) - I had failed on another Himalayan expedition and felt lost. I took a bus from Lhasa north into the heart of Tibet. I wanted to get a pony but ended up getting a bicycle. I pedaled into the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains, my pack strapped to the bicycle. I intended…
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Vietnam Cave
This is Going to Extremes. Stories of adventure. I'm Mark Jenkins, lifelong resident of Wyoming and former international correspondent for National Geographic magazine. Today's story is about the first descent of the largest cave in the world. Hong Kong dong, located deep inside Vietnam. The…
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Ginge Fullen
A world-renowned explorer, critically acclaimed author, and international journalist, for the last decade Jenkins has covered the globe. As a foreign correspondent for the past 30 years, Mark Jenkins has explored the most remote, difficult, and dangerous places on the planet.
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Fame and Glory
Burke and Wills were 19th-century explorers in Australia. Like Lewis and Clark, their dream was to cross their continent. That is where the similarity ends. Burke and Wills had over a thousand miles of horrifying desert to cross. They made it, but this story does not end well.
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Everest: The Madness and the Macabre
We all have a place we dream about. We have visited it without ever having set foot there. For me that place was the Mountains of the Moon, the Rwenzoris, in western Uganda. I dreamed about it for years: the massive glaciers on the equator, the hypertrophic plants, the constant rain and...
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Coach (Part 1 and 2)
One man made me a rock climber: Layne Kopishka. He was my high school swim coach and a P.E. instructor who taught young athletes how to climb on the granite walls of Vedauwoo, in southeastern Wyoming. He pushed us to become more than we were, and in the process, made us what we are today.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
As a foreign correspondent for the past 30 years, Mark Jenkins has explored the most remote, difficult, and dangerous places on the planet. He will do whatever it takes to get the story. On assignment in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Tajik KGB and interrogated for a week. On assignment in Burma, he was arrested by the military junta multiple times. On assignment in eastern Congo, he was captured by the murderous Hutu guerillas. Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, says “Mark Jenkins purposefully goes out and taunts the gods. How he gets away with it is probably why he’s had 30 to 40 arrests---and no convictions.”
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