BBC OS Conversation: Adventurers

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We have spent the last year here on BBC OS Conversations covering some of the World’s major news stories. As the year draws to a close, however, we thought it would be interesting to hear from three people who have been doing something completely different in 2023 for their perspective on the world.

53-year-old professional explorer from Australia, Geoff Wilson, joined us from Canada. He has just completed the first part of his latest expedition, Project Zero, a two-year journey to promote the concept of “carbon neutral exploring”. So far, the adventure has included crossing perilous crevasses in Patagonia and battling towering waves at sea.

“I was woken up by my son and his mate Geordie who were on watch saying that the boat was surfing down 15, 16 metre waves at about 16 knots,” Geoff tells host, James Reynolds. “It just felt that everything had gone to custard very quickly.”

We bring Geoff together with Kiyonah Mya Buckhalter, a 25-year-old New Yorker. Kiyonah is Muslim, black and blogs as the “Veiled Traveller” on Instagram.

“Travelling the way I do,” she says, “I’ve had to grow my confidence to get people to understand that I do have a warm heart and I am smiling very hard under this veil, even though they may not see it.”

We also hear from 29-year-old Noel Salmon from London. Noel has just completed a seven-month solo cycle of the old silk road from Turkey to China, which involved extreme temperatures and exploding inner tubes.

A Boffin Media production in partnership with the BBC OS team.

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0:00.0	Unmissible stories from around the globe from the BBC World Service.
0:05.0	My happy place, this is who I am.
0:08.0	Search for the documentary, lives less ordinary, and amazing sports stories stories wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:20.0	Hello I'm James Reynolds.
0:21.1	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:25.0	In BBC OS conversations we bring together people from around the world to share their experiences
0:31.0	and this time we hear from three adventurers.
0:35.0	Ever considered leaving your job or your home
0:38.0	and heading off around the world for an adventure,
0:41.0	we meet three people who have done just that. A cyclist who's peddled for seven
0:46.7	months across Asia, a blogger challenging stereotypes of her parents and religion and a professional explorer enduring extreme conditions in
0:56.4	Antarctic waters.
0:58.0	I was working up by my son and his mate Jordi who were on watch saying that the boat was surfing down 15-16
1:06.2	meter waves at about 16 knots so it just felt like everything had gone to custard very quickly.
1:15.0	We've spent the last year here on BBC OS conversations meeting like this once a week
1:21.0	to cover some of the world's major news stories and let's face it
1:24.0	2023 has seen its share of wars disasters tragedies but as the year now draws to
1:31.9	a close we thought it might be an interesting idea to hear from three people who've been doing something very different in 2023.
1:39.0	The stories you'll hear from these people are fascinating, they are occasionally terrifying, and they are of course
1:44.8	ultimately uplifting. We have just one conversation to play you this time. We'll break it into two parts.
1:50.3	I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it.
1:54.0	Let me introduce you then to Jeff Wilson, a 53-year-old professional explorer from Australia who joined us from Canada
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