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The Pursuit Zone
by Paul Schmid
Adventure travel show Interviewing people that dream big, get out of their comfort zones, and take on ambitious pursuits. People that have positive and interesting stories to tell. Travelers, adventure athletes, authors, filmmakers, or volunteers in remote parts of the world. These are just a few of many examples. The Pursuit Zone serves to inspire and challenge people to escape their comfort zones by combining their dreams and ambition with a healthy dose of pursuit.
Episodes
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TPZ 215: Creating Trails Magazine with Ryan Wichelns
Ryan Wichelns is the founding editor of Trails Magazine. It is the only independent, quality-over-quantity, and print-only magazine for backpackers and those who love to sleep in the dirt. He is also an outdoor-adventure and environmental freelance writer and journalist. His work has appeared in...
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TPZ214: Cycling the Iron Curtain Trail aka Eurovelo 13 with Laura Scott
At the age of 22 she had a spinal injury that ended her dreams of becoming an athlete. Through a lot of pain, disappointment and treatment she slowly got better. Two years later she wanted to prove to herself that she could still achieve big goals so she set out to cycle the Iron Curtain Trail…
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TPZ213: Kayaking the Amazon River with Olie Hunter Smart
In 2015, with his friend Tarran, he completed a kayaking adventure along the Amazon River, traveling from the headwaters of the Rio Mantaro, high in the Peruvian Andes, to the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil. It was 400 miles of trekking followed by 3,600 miles of kayaking for 4.5 months. You can learn...
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TPZ212: Cycling England to Australia with Josiah Skeats
The first part of his 40,000-kilometer cycling journey took him from England to Tbilisi Georgia. After a winter break in England earning money, he reunited with his bike and continued through central Asia along the Pamir highway and into the Whakan Valley. He was denied a visa to China so he…
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TPZ211: Cycle Touring Across the USA with Anna Welch
In the summer of 2019, Anna Welch traveled from New Zealand to San Francisco to begin cycling across the United States. She was inspired by the Kate Harris book Lands of Lost Borders – A Journey on the Silk Road. She wanted to see a cross-section of American culture and geography in a way that...
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TPZ210: Cycle Touring with Eric and Maudi from Wheels to Wander
In 2018 they began a long cycling adventure, heading east from their home country the Netherlands. Some of the places they have cycled include Turkey, Iran, Oman, and Japan. They've experienced the extremes of the high mountain passes through central Asia and the heat and humidity of SE Asia.…
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TPZ209: Sailing the Pacific and Cycling Across the USA with Simon Parker
He lives a life of adventure as a travel writer and broadcast journalist, reporting from over 100 countries in the past decade. Back in 2016 he sailed and cycled from China to London in 133 days. The main legs of this journey were a 28-day yacht race across the North Pacific then cycling across…
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TPZ208: Teaching in Korea, Traveling India and Making Travel Videos with Christine Ka'aloa
Christine Ka'aloa runs the YouTube channel GrrrlTraveler. It's a channel that takes you inside her solo travel adventures around the world. Before YouTube, she lived in New York City for over 8 years, working in tv and video production including working with MTV. When the economy slowed in 2009,...
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TPZ207: Adventure Filmmaking in the Waddington Range with Greg Gransden
Photo credit: Susanna Oreskovic In the late 1920s, the husband-and-wife duo Don and Phyllis Munday believed there was an undiscovered peak in the Coast Range about 200 miles north of Vancouver which was an uncharted part of the province. They called it Mystery Mountain and set out to find it.…
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TPZ206: Traveling in Africa & Cycle Racing Across the USA with Alissa
Her travels have taken her all over the world. Her first big adventure was traveling solo through parts of East and West Africa using public transportation. She is also into cycle-touring and spent 2.5 months in SE Asia, 5 weeks in Patagonia, and most recently was back in Africa cycling from…
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TPZ205: Unicycling Patagonia with Anne-Sophie Rodet
Her adventure began in Ushuaia Argentina in late January 2013. Nearly 7 months later she cycled into Santiago Chile after 4,600 km accomplishing her goal of unicycling through Patagonia. But the goal was more than just a cycling challenge. It was a way to meet people from different cultures and a...
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TPZ204: Walking India & Adventure Filmmaking with Olie Hunter Smart
At the end of 2016 he left his job to begin 2 months of planning for a walk across India from Turtuk in the north to Kanyakumari in the south. The walk would begin in 2017. The year marking 70 years of Indian independence. The goal of the expedition was to learn about how Independence and…
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TPZ203: Cycling Around the World with Snežana Radojičić
When she was little, she dreamed of becoming a writer. But by her early forties, after dozens of jobs from teaching to real estate to selling insurance, she wondered why she had lost sight of that dream. So, in 2011 she set out from Belgrade Serbia on an old 8-speed mountain bike with a budget of…
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TPZ202: Cycling Sweden to New Zealand with Ann Johansson
She left her job as a graphic designer and traveled to New Zealand to start her first bicycle tour. But when it was over, she knew she wanted more. A few years later in 2015 she cycled away from her home in Sweden with the plan to ride back to New Zealand. The journey took her through Europe,...
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TPZ201: Long-Distance Hiking in Europe with Karma & Scott
Karma is from Sweden and Scott from New Zealand. They have a passion for long-distance hiking and exploring the world. Not wanting to be owned by their stuff, they sold everything but the packs on their backs and in 2019 began a multi-year trek from North Cape at the top of Norway toward Bluff at...
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TPZ200 Bonus - Where are they now?
Enjoy this bonus episode in celebration of reaching 200 episodes. 24 previous guests sent in recordings of what they are doing now.
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TPZ200: Building a Bike-Car and Cycling across Canada with Paul Everitt
Back in 2006 while snowboarding in the French Alps, he met some backpackers and became fascinated with their lifestyle and tales of travel and adventure. Soon after, he quit his job and spent a year working and traveling Australia. A few years later, while backpacking and volunteering in Central...
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TPZ199: Cycling Alaska to Argentina with Radu Păltineanu
At age 15 he emigrated with his parents from Romania to Montreal Canada. He studied software engineering at University, but after graduation he decided to take another path in life. He left on a 9-month adventure to cycle the Americas from the top of Alaska to the bottom of South America, a…
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TPZ198: Trekking across Madagascar with Chaz Powell
In August 2019, he began a 780 km trek across Madagascar. Joined by three team members, the goal was to walk east to west along Madagascar's longest river, the Mangoky. The journey was 29 days through jungles and across mountain ranges while avoiding crocodiles and the threat of armed bandits.…
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TPZ197: Cycling and Rowing from Nepal to Indonesia to Summit Carstensz Pyramid with Jelle Veyt
He is on a mission to use human power to reach the peaks of the seven summits. After cycling to Nepal and summiting Mt. Everest in 2016, he set out on a new adventure to reach the top of Carstensz Pyramid, the highest peak of Mount Carstensz in the Popua Province of Indonesia. He began on bicycle...
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TPZ196: Working at McMurdo Station in Antarctica with Zach and Leah
They saved their money and quit their jobs to begin traveling the world with the goal of reaching all seven continents. Their fourth continent, Antarctica, is an expensive place to get to so they applied for jobs at McMurdo station, a US Antarctic research base with a summer population of about...
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TPZ195: Trekking Across Iceland in Winter with Łukasz Supergan
His passion is undertaking expeditions through the mountains, thousands of kilometers long, on foot and usually alone. These journeys provide an opportunity to look within and ponder life's most profound questions. For more than 2 decades he has walked over 20,000 km through mountain ranges in...
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TPZ194: Cycling the North Sea Cycle Route aka EuroVelo 12 with Laura Kennington
The North Sea Cycle Route extends along the coastline of eight countries bordering the North Sea. It's about 6,000 km long and is also known as EuroVelo 12. It's a diverse route covering land below sea level in the Netherlands to cliffs over 1,000 meters high in Norway. Laura Kennington completed...
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TPZ193: From England to Norway in a Converted Lifeboat with Guylee Simmonds and David Schnabel
In February 2018, architects Guylee Simmonds and David Schnabel bought a marine survival lifeboat and spent a year converting it for a four-month, 5000 km voyage to the Arctic. Along with a dog named Shackleton, they traveled from the UK to Tromsø, the largest city in the Arctic, situated far…
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TPZ192: Trekking the Kanuku Mountains in Guyana with Lucy Shepherd
Over the past decade she has done many adventures which have taken her to the Arctic, the Haute route, Bolivian high peaks, Denali, and Iceland to name a few. Her first time in the Amazon jungle was a short trip to Guyana in 2014. She went back in 2020 with the mission to cross the Kanuku…
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TPZ191: Winter Trekking in Lapland, Northern Finland with Rachel Frei Bandieri
She is a Swiss outdoor explorer that likes the challenge of winter adventure. She has competed in 2 arctic winter races in Finland, the Rovaniemi 150 and 300, as well as the Arrowhead 135 winter endurance race in northern Minnesota. In February 2019 she set out on an expedition called Arctic…
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TPZ190: Travel Blogging with Sofie Couwenbergh
In the summer of 2012, while working a regular job and in search of a creative outlet, she decided to combine her passion for writing and travel to create the blog WonderfulWanderings.com. Little did she know less than 3 years later, she would quit that regular job to focus on the blog full time…
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TPZ189: Sailing, Cycling, Motorbiking and Vanlife Adventures with Huub van der Mark
While in Kyrgyzstan in 2018 he bought a Russian-made 1987 UAZ-452 van. After converting it into a campervan he drove off to explore central Asia, Iran, and Pakistan. After Pakistan, he shipped the van to Argentina where he has begun a multi-year road trip to Alaska. But before all of this, he…
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TPZ188: Adventure Racing with Holly Budge
She is one of the UKs most accomplished female adventurers whose achievements include summitting both Ama Dablam and Mount Everest, racing 1000 km across Mongolia on horseback, and completing the 243 km Kathmandu Coast to Coast race on New Zealand's South Island. She is also the founder of How…
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TPZ187: Cycling West Africa with Nikki Ray
Starting in Spain, she cycled 10,000 km across 13 countries to reach Ghana on a bike she built from recycled components. It was an adventure she called Ready Steady Slow in an effort to remind herself not to rush and to patiently take in everything going on around her. But going slow can be a...
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TPZ186: Trekking in Sweden with Anna Blackwell
She's trekked across the wilderness of Arctic Sweden, walked 1,600 km along ancient pilgrimage routes in France and Spain, summitted Mt. Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa, paddled a tandem kayak 4,000 km from London to the Black Sea coast in Romania, and most recently completed an…
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TPZ185: Cycle Touring with Scott Sharick
He lived in western New York and Hawaii before moving to Cambodia in 2015 where he explored the country by motorbike. During his time in Cambodia he suffered a stroke and luckily fully recovered from it. But the experience made him think he needed to go on a long adventure. His first big cycle…
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TPZ184: Cycling, Packrafting, & Hiking with Alice Bowers
She had an ordinary life as a geography teacher before setting out to live a life of adventure. She is passionate about traveling and human powered exploration and spent 13 months cycling the length of Australia and New Zealand and then from Indonesia to Nepal. The journey opened her eyes to the...
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TPZ183: Rowing the Pacific Ocean with Jacob Adoram
He is an Eagle Scout, a former military aviator, and an avid traveler who has explored over 35 countries. He rode a recumbent bicycle across the US using the Race Across America route and in July 2018 began rowing from Neah Bay, Washington to Australia, making landfall 11 months later at Trinity...
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TPZ182: Exploring Newfoundland and Labrador with Justin Barbour
With his dog Saku, he explores the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2017 they crossed Newfoundland - 700 km by foot, snowshoe, and packraft. In 2018 with the support from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Mountain Equipment Coop, they began a crossing over the Labrador...
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TPZ181: Cycling in Asia and Creating YouTube Videos with Adam Hugill
The cycling books he read fueled his passion for travel and adventure. The mountains of South America, the deserts of Africa, the freezing tundra of Siberia became the backdrop of his daydreams. In 2018, after 12 years in the British Army, he left that life behind to begin cycling to these far…
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TPZ180: Cycling Alaska to Argentina with Chris Haag & Sophie George
In the summer of 2018, Chris Haag and Sophie George began cycling south from Homer Alaska toward their goal of reaching Ushuaia Argentina. With North America behind them they are currently in Colombia. You can follow the adventure at their website theplacesipee.com. Chris and Sophie, welcome to…
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TPZ179: In the Footsteps of the Cherokee with Ian Finch & Jamie Barnes
Ian and Jamie. Photo credit to Will Saunders After the Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, the US government began a series of relocations of Native Americans from their ancestral lands in the southeast to areas west of the Mississippi River. The 5…
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TPZ178: Adventure Cycle Touring with Tim & Linda
For Tim and Linda, it's been over 400 days on the road so far since cycling away from Europe in the spring of 2018. Some of the highlights include a month through Turkey, riding through the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, and cycling for 3 months in China. You can learn more about their adventure…
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TPZ177: RTW Bikepacking Adventure with Tristan Ridley
After working and hitchhiking around Australia for 2 years, he bought a bike and spent 3 months cycling around New Zealand. He then cycled back to his home in England starting in Papua New Guinea where he came down with Dengue fever and was chased by men wielding machetes. After working 16 months...
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TPZ176: Thru-Hiking Te Araroa with Alison Young
In late October 2018 she traveled to New Zealand to begin a 4-month southbound thru-hike of Te Araroa, a 3,000 km walking track across the north and south islands. It's a challenging hike that took her across various landscapes including beaches, cities, forests, and volcanoes. You can read more...
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TPZ175: Cycling Around the World with Fredrika Ek
She cycled away from her hometown of Sundsvall Sweden in the early spring of 2015 with the goal to cycle around the world and to experience foreign lands and cultures. She wanted to overcome the personal challenges of riding into the ruthless headwinds, the freezing cold, the tormenting heat and…
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TPZ174: Trekking to Everest Base Camp with Russ Hepton
Trekking to Everest base camp at 5,380 meters is not an easy adventure, but the reward is spending time in the incredible mountain landscapes of the Himalayas. Russ Hepton began his 2-week trek starting in Kathmandu Nepal. After an exhilarating 45-minute helicopter flight to Lukla he set out with...
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TPZ173: Trekking Death Valley National Park with Roland Banas
Death Valley National Park on the California Nevada border is the hottest, driest and lowest of all the US national parks. It is also the largest National Park in the lower 48 with a diverse environment of sand dunes, salt flats, mountains and valleys. For three years beginning in 2015, Roland...
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TPZ172: Cycling Around the World with Tim Millikin
From his home in Reading England to the finish line in Reading, PA it was a journey of 46,500 km spanning over 3 years. On a bicycle he built for less than 500 pounds he cycled through 39 countries experiencing the stunning vistas of Kyrgyzstan and the soul-crushing roads of the Atacama Desert.…
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TPZ171: Kayaking the Kwanza River in Angola with Oscar Scafidi
In June 2016, Oscar Scafidi and teammate Alfy Weston assembled the 1960s era Klepper Aerius II foldable kayak and set out on the Kwanza River in Angola – which flows 600 miles from its source on the Bié Plateau to the Atlantic Ocean. During their roughly 4-week journey they experienced many...
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TPZ170: Solar VanLife Adventure with Joel Hayes & Keegan Taccori
Joel is the pilot and Keegan is the copilot. They are the first team in the world to drive a solar powered, 100% electric camper van from Alaska to Argentina. The adventure is called Route del Sol and the goal is to make it to the bottom of South America by the summer of 2020. The first part of...
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TPZ169: Walking thru Bangladesh with Ian Packham
Located between India and Myanmar, Bangladesh is a country about the size of England and Wales, but with three times the population. From January through March 2019, Ian Packham was on a self-supported trek across Bangladesh. It was 665.8 miles on foot starting in Saint Martins island in the…
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TPZ168: Arctic Expedition Sailing with Katherine Knight
A lifelong love of sailing and adventure has taken Katherine Knight all over the world, from Iceland to Canada, the arctic and Cape Horn. Her home, with her partner Eric, is a 50ft expedition yacht called Narwhal. This past year they set sail on an amazing journey from Scotland across the arctic...
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TPZ167: Trekking the Gambia River with Chaz Powell
In January 2019, Chaz Powell and Tim Roberts set off on a 1,120 km trek of the Gambia River from its source in the Fouta Djallon highlands of central Guinea to the coastal city of Banjul in The Gambia. It was a challenging 46 days through extreme temperatures and harsh landscapes, with constant...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Adventure travel show Interviewing people that dream big, get out of their comfort zones, and take on ambitious pursuits. People that have positive and interesting stories to tell. Travelers, adventure athletes, authors, filmmakers, or volunteers in remote parts of the world. These are just a few of many examples. The Pursuit Zone serves to inspire and challenge people to escape their comfort zones by combining their dreams and ambition with a healthy dose of pursuit.
HOSTED BY
Paul Schmid
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Adventure travel show Interviewing people that dream big, get out of their comfort zones, and take on ambitious pursuits. People that have positive and interesting stories to tell. Travelers, adventure athletes, authors, filmmakers, or volunteers in remote parts of the world. These are just a few...
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