The drive to go and see for yourself — polar journeys, first ascents, river descents and the long history of discovery. These are the explorers, places and ideas the podcast keeps returning to.
Episodes exploring exploration
- Crossing the Darién Gap: cartels, jungle and hostage training, with Daniel Eggington
- Crossing Australia’s deadliest desert unsupported, with Louis-Philippe Loncke
- Ascending the Amazon: 7,000km over six and a half years, with Pete Casey
- Packrafting Gabon’s uncharted jungle rivers, with Beki Henderson
- Saving Brazil’s jaguars, with Letícia Benavalli
- Climbing the volcanic seven summits, with Ricardo Kaljouw
- A human-powered northern loop of the Earth, with Katharina Kneip
- Chubby Diaries: plus-size adventures and the National Geographic story, with Jeff Jenkins
- Lebanon’s hidden adventures: the 400km Boukaat Loubnan trail, with Gilbert Moukheiber
- Warrior Walker: walking around the UK, with Paul Harris (part 2)
- What the wild teaches us about life and leadership, with Megan Hine
- Matriarchs of the animal kingdom with Erin Ranney.
- Kite skiing across Antarctica at -62°C.
- The True North Project: making adventure accessible in schools, with Deon Barrett
- Surviving the Canadian wilderness, and Desert Island Survival, with Tom Williams
- Across Africa: from Morocco to the gates of Timbuktu, with Alice Morrison
- Kayaking the Northwest Passage with the Arctic Cowboys, with Mark Agnew
- A path to wild adventures, expeditions and self-discovery, with Valerie Gagne
- Wild tales from the jungles of Guyana.
- On adventure, curiosity and purpose, with Matt Pycroft
- Living off-grid and surviving 75 days alone in Canada’s wilderness.
- Wild Siberian adventures (amid a 9-5 job).
- A 1,200-mile journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, with Ian Finch
Key entries
- Arctic
- Polar
- Antarctica
- Curiosity
- Baffin Island
- Ed Stafford
- Laura Bingham
- Levison Wood
- Polar bear
- Southern Ocean
- Youth Expeditions
- Alice Morrison
- Ann Daniels
- Arctic Cowboys
- Arctic Ocean
- Arctic Research Foundation
- Caving
- Douglas Mawson
- Drake Passage
- East Antarctica
- Ernest Shackleton
- European Space Agency
- Indian Ocean
- Lake Vostok
- Marie Byrd Land
- Mike Horn
- Mount Bradley
- Mount Luyendyk
- Mount Vinson
- Ocean exploration
- Ocean Exploration Trust
- Polar exploration
- Ross Ice Shelf
- Transantarctic Mountains
- Union Glacier Camp
- Walking the Amazon
- Yukon Arctic Ultra
- Age of Discovery
- Arctic Circle
- Arctic exploration
- Challenger expedition – Wikipedia
- Chinese exploration
- Chronology of European exploration of Asia
- Culinary tourism
- Dana expeditions
- Deep-sea exploration
- Desert exploration
- European exploration of Africa
