ASP Stories Ep. 011: The Trail of the Mountain Folk Excerpt 2 - Oli France
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another ASP Stories bonus episode. We will be having authors read from their books featuring each chapter as a new episode. Think of these bonus episodes as an ongoing audiobook for free. So sit back, relax and enjoy an excerpt from Oliver France's book The Trail of the Mountain Folk where Oli recounts his 108 day journey along the mountainous spine of Asia from Hong Kong to Istanbul. If you missed episode 330 where Curt interviewed Oli about this trip, be sure to go back and listen for more about this amazing adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. Thank you for joining us again for the ASP Stories weekend bonus episode. |
| 0:24.3 | Join us on Mondays and Thursdays where we interview amazing guests where they share with us about their adventure sports and the amazing feats that they have done. |
| 0:34.0 | But ASP Stories is where we get to listen in as authors read their adventure stories to us. |
| 0:40.6 | So sit back with your hot cup of tea or coffee and kick off your adventure-filled weekend by listening in while we hear more from ASP Stories. |
| 1:02.2 | Hi. Hi, this is Ollie France, British adventurer and mountain leader. |
| 1:08.1 | Excite to be back here today with the Adventure Sports podcast, where I'll be reading another extract from my recently released book, The Trail of the Mountain Folk. |
| 1:11.6 | In this book I describe my solo journey in 2016 along the mountainous spine of Asia, |
| 1:17.6 | where I travelled from Hong Kong to Istanbul. |
| 1:20.6 | And today I'm going to read an extract from chapters 9 and 10, |
| 1:25.6 | starting in the remote and ruggedly beautiful mountains of |
| 1:29.6 | Kazakhstan. I hope you enjoy. There lies in mountaineering, an eternal paradox between danger |
| 1:37.3 | and fear, whereby a climber on a vertical cliff may be afraid, yet in little actual danger, |
| 1:43.7 | given the strength of his |
| 1:44.7 | ropes and carabiners. Conversely, an alpinist on a snow-covered mountainside in pristine conditions |
| 1:51.9 | will have no fear whatsoever, but may well be exposing themselves to lethal danger in |
| 1:57.6 | the form of an unseen avalanche. Like so, through the sun, the wondrous landscape |
| 2:03.4 | and the shooting stars, I had fallen into a mistaken sense of security, yet I was wandering |
| 2:09.8 | alone into danger. Overnight I had filled my water bottles with snow and kept them by my feet |
| 2:16.5 | in my sleeping bag. Such for the temperatures, though, that I had filled my water bottles with snow, and kept them by my feet in my sleeping bag. Such |
| 2:18.5 | for the temperatures, though, that I had little water come morning, and I was without a stove. |
| 2:25.4 | Becoming dehydrated, I stopped among the patch of brush, built a small fire and melted snow |
| 2:30.4 | in an old sweet corn tin. It tasted awful. The mountains remained silent today, clouds |
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