Ed Stafford
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, I’m joined by the explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford. In 2010, Ed became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River, a feat that took 860 days and put him on the map as one of our most prominent and exciting adventurers. From there here’s gone on to present and self film more massive challenges, like living in complete isolation on a desert island for 60 days without food, clothes or equipment, or being left for dead in various extreme environments around the world from Madagascar to Mongolia. These became incredible TV series that I’ve watched religiously and couldn’t recommend more.
Ed is someone I’ve wanted to interview for the very beginning but like so many of my dream guests he’s normally always travelling so I was lucky to finally get this time to speak with him and I hope you enjoy what I think is a really raw and honest account of the spiritual and emotional development that comes with travel - as well as hearing about some inspiring destinations along the way.
Destination Recap:
- Henfaes, Aberdaron, Wales
- Leicestershire, England
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
- Walking the length of the Amazon river
- Olorua, Fiji
- Argentine Patagonia
- Northern Thailand
- Ibiza, Spain
- Antarctica
Ed’s new podcast, Dangerous Minds, is out now
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. I'm Holly Rubinstein. I'm a travel journalist and editor. |
| 0:12.4 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:23.0 | On today's episode, I'm joined by the explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford. |
| 0:28.8 | In 2010, Ed became the first person ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon River, |
| 0:35.4 | a feat that took 860 days and really put him on the map as one of our most prominent and exciting adventurers. |
| 0:43.3 | From there, he's gone on to present and self-film more massive challenges, like living in complete isolation on a desert island for 60 days without food, clothes or equipment, and being left for dead |
| 0:55.8 | in various extreme environments around the world from Madagascar to Mongolia. |
| 1:00.9 | These all became incredible TV series that I've watched religiously with my husband, |
| 1:05.3 | and I couldn't recommend more. |
| 1:07.3 | So Ed is someone I wanted to interview from the very beginning, but like so many of my dream guests, he's normally always travelling. |
| 1:13.7 | So I was really lucky to finally get this time to speak with him. |
| 1:17.4 | And I hope you enjoy what I think is a really raw and honest account of the spiritual and emotional development that comes with travel, as well as hearing about some inspiring |
| 1:28.4 | destinations along the way. |
| 1:37.6 | Ed Stafford, welcome to The Travel Diaries. |
| 1:41.0 | Thank you so much for coming on. |
| 1:43.2 | How are you today? I'm very well, |
| 1:44.9 | Holly. I'm really well. Thank you. How are you? Yeah, I'm great. All the better for finally getting |
| 1:50.5 | some time in the diary to speak to you. I mean, as someone who travels so much for work, |
| 1:55.3 | it's been hard to pin you down. But how has it been lockdown when you're traveling normally so frequently um |
| 2:03.4 | do you know what i i've really enjoyed it and i don't want to sound flippant and i know i know what a |
| 2:08.6 | um what an unsettling its time been it's been for many people and what a difficult time and loads |
| 2:14.3 | of people have lost people and i know all of the pain that goes in hand with it but we're lucky enough to be in a little village and Leicestershire and it's a little bit |
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