140 – ASH DYKES | Living As An Extreme Adventurer
Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson
Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to see. This is a Daunted Life of a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. |
| 0:17.0 | We're going to be a Daunted Life of a Man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. |
| 0:23.3 | All right guys today we've got a very special guest. His name is Ash Dykes. This guy is a |
| 0:27.4 | Welsh explorer, adventurer, an extreme athlete and I've got to put a lot of |
| 0:31.6 | emphasis on the word extreme. |
| 0:33.4 | This dude has done a lot of different things. |
| 0:35.4 | You may recognize that name because just earlier this year I think it was in January. |
| 0:38.8 | He appeared on the Joe Rogan experience and so let me give you a rundown because this might jog your memory on who exactly this guy is. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm just going to read this stuff from his website to give you an idea what he's been doing over the last several years. |
| 0:49.5 | He walked so low and unsupported across Mongolia in 2014 age 23. The 1500 mile journey over the Altay Mountains |
| 0:58.5 | and across the Gobi Desert took 78 days. He became known to locals as the lonely snow leopard. In 2015 he completed the |
| 1:05.7 | 1600 mile trek across Madagascar via its 8 highest peaks and a nut and which was another world |
| 1:11.6 | first. Along the way he contracted the deadliest strain of malaria possible |
| 1:16.0 | and was close to death. |
| 1:17.0 | As a result of the experience, he is now a special ambassador for the charity, |
| 1:21.0 | Malaria No More UK. |
| 1:23.0 | In August of 2018 he embarked on another world first record attempt to walk the 4,000 mile course of the |
| 1:30.3 | Yancey River. |
| 1:31.6 | The successful completion of his year-long mission earned him celebrity status in China. |
| 1:36.5 | So guys, all three of those things that I just mentioned, Mongolia, Madagascar, and the Yangtze River in China, |
| 1:42.0 | those were all world first. No one had |
| 1:43.7 | ever pulled off those things ever before. And this was all before the age of 30. |
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