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Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Blair Braverman on the Pleasures and Perils of the Wilderness

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this year, Lale reported a feature for Condé Nast Traveler on the Iditarod, the annual sled dog race that crosses 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness. She catches up with podcast regular, writer, and adventurer Blair Braverman to swap stories of traveling through Alaska. Plus, Blair shares her experiences from another dramatic landscape she had long dreamed of visiting: Antarctica.

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She's made up her mind to live pretty smart.

0:04.0

Learned to budget responsibly right from the start.

0:08.0

She spends a little less and puts more into savings,

0:12.0

keeps her blood pressure low and credits go raising.

0:16.0

She's gotten dead right out of her life.

0:20.0

She tracks her cash for on a spreadsheet at night.

0:23.3

Boring money moves make kind of lame songs, but they sound pretty sweet to your wallet.

0:27.3

BNC Bank, brilliantly boring since 1865.

0:31.0

In a rather significant women who travel update, we are going to be winding down the podcast in September after,

0:39.8

I'm going to say it is an eight-year run of this podcast, and we relaunched a few years ago

0:45.3

to tell even more immersive long-form stories, and we've had such an amazing range of women

0:50.7

join us to share their experiences. So in the honor of the podcast wrapping up and ending this particular chapter,

0:58.0

the next six episodes are going to be featuring some of our favorite guests

1:02.2

and some of our repeat guests as well,

1:04.8

all updating us on recent ways that they've been travelling the world.

1:17.6

Thank you. ways that they've been travelling the world. I'm Lale Arakoglu and welcome to another episode of Women Who Travel.

1:22.6

I'm chatting with Arctic Dog Sledder, adventurer, regular guest, Connoisse Traveler contributor, Blair

1:29.3

Braverman.

1:31.4

I can't wait to share my experience of travelling for the Iditarod in Alaska last March,

1:37.1

a race that Blair is so familiar with and is the reason why I became so fascinated by this

1:43.5

endeavour in the first place.

1:45.5

And it meant that I got to understand so much more of what Blair goes through, along with her dog team,

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