Stories of people who put themselves to the test — long walks, hard climbs, ocean crossings and the quiet graft behind them. The entries and episodes below trace the adventure thread running through the show.
Episodes exploring adventure
- Kayaking the Mangoky, Madagascar’s longest river, with Oscar Scafidi
- 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
- Alone across Gola: a solo cycle through West Africa’s rainforest, with Jude Kriwald
- A human-powered northern loop of the Earth, with Katharina Kneip
- Finding yourself by getting lost, with Fitz Cahall
- Chubby Diaries: plus-size adventures and the National Geographic story, with Jeff Jenkins
- A global cycle across 21 countries: the Silk Road, the Pamirs and beyond, with Chris McCaffrey
- 300km solo through Lapland’s remote wilderness, with Albert Weckman
- Lebanon’s hidden adventures: the 400km Boukaat Loubnan trail, with Gilbert Moukheiber
- Walking the wildest rivers in Africa, with Chaz Powell
- 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.
- The first woman to walk France border to border.
- Surviving the Canadian wilderness, and Desert Island Survival, with Tom Williams
- A life among the tribes of Papua New Guinea, with Benedict Allen
- 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
Key entries
- Wilderness
- Kayaking
- Cycling
- Mountaineering
- Base Camp
- Biology
- Rock climbing
- Alastair Humphreys
- Alex Honnold
- Bushcraft
- Seven Summits
- Youth Expeditions
- Adventure Diaries Podcast
- Adventure racing
- Adventure travel
- Aldo Kane
- Alice Morrison
- Alpine Club
- Archery
- Ash Dykes
- Bear Grylls
- Ben Fogle
- Climbing Gold
- Desert Island Survival
- Hazen Audel
- Hexatrek
- Ice climbing
- Kristin Harila
- Leo Houlding
- Marathon des Sables
- Mark Agnew
- Megan Hine
- Nirmal Purja
- Ocean rowing
- Scott Fischer
- Volcanic Seven Summits
- Walking the Amazon
- Wilderness First Responder
- Yukon Arctic Ultra
- Adventure
- Adventure education
- Adventure film
- Adventure park
- Bicycle touring
- Challenger expedition – Wikipedia
- Climbing
- Cross-country cycling
- Dana expeditions
