Summary
Bestselling author, adventurer, mountaineer, and ultra-runner Amy McCulloch joins Jenni Falconer in the RunPod studio to share her extraordinary journey from high-altitude climbs to high-stakes thrillers.
Get ready to lace up your metaphorical hiking boots and dive into Amy’s wild world, where extreme real-life adventures fuel her gripping fiction.
Amy’s latest novel, Runner 13, is out now-a pulse-pounding thriller set in the brutal heat of the Sahara Desert.
The story follows Adri, an ultra-runner staging a comeback in a punishing 250-mile race, carrying everything she needs on her back. She’s determined to prove herself-until a fellow runner is badly injured and things start to unravel. In conditions this harsh, even a dead body can be explained away… but there’s a killer on the loose. And the problem with being the fastest is that you're too far ahead for anyone to save you.
From jumping out of planes to surviving desert ultramarathons, Amy opens up about the physical and mental endurance that drives both her adventures and her storytelling.
Tune in to this episode of RunPod and push the boundaries of what's possible- natural or narrative. Amy McCulloch shows us that when you step into the extreme, the real story begins.
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