DEEP TROUBLE: Heart Attack in Albania
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ian Varley stepped off his boat in the UK, swung his leg over his motorcycle, and set off on a multi-country adventure. His gear was well thought out and organized, but his route was not yet locked down. Fast forward a few days, Ian wakes up in a foreign country, believing he is having a heart attack. This is where the trouble begins as he faces a life-threatening condition in an unfamiliar place.
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| 0:00.0 | This is another in our series called Deep Trouble. Deep Trouble is an exclusive series found just here on |
| 0:06.1 | Adventure Rider Radio. It's stories from riders that have experienced catastrophes, being lost, |
| 0:11.1 | injuries, breakdowns, something that has led them into deep trouble. Now, of course, no one wants |
| 0:16.4 | to run into deep trouble, but let's face it, if there was no threat to dodge, no line in the sand to skirt, |
| 0:21.7 | no precipitous edge to approach, all personal, of course, there would be no adventure. And that |
| 0:26.7 | gray zone, that adventure gray zone that I would say lives between safety and danger, |
| 0:31.6 | it's all about riding in that gray zone, whatever your gray zone is, and avoiding deep trouble. |
| 0:36.1 | So that's what this series is about. |
| 0:38.2 | We listen to people who have had some problem, |
| 0:40.8 | they work through it and they've got out and they have some lessons for us |
| 0:43.7 | and hopefully keep us all out of trouble. |
| 0:46.9 | Today, Ian Varley is going to tell us a story about leaving the UK on an open-ended adventure. |
| 0:52.4 | Later on, he's in a foreign country and finds himself experiencing |
| 0:56.0 | a heart attack, or at least that's what he's told. But when it comes to getting medical |
| 0:59.8 | assistance, there's a big problem. And that sends Ian on a wild ride getting help for a heart |
| 1:05.8 | attack. I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us. We get a good one for you. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm Sam Manick. |
| 1:19.4 | I'm Mr. Simon. I'm Mr. Simon, baby. |
| 1:21.1 | Halgaphaired of, Charlie Bowman, Presbyt, Elizabeth Martin, Jocelyn Snow, |
| 1:24.5 | and you're listening to Adventure. Adventure Rinal Radio. |
| 1:35.4 | And Green Chili Adventure Gear offers American-made, heavy-duty luggage systems for all types of |
| 1:39.4 | motorcycles. |
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