Ep. 089: Storm Chasing & Global Exploration - George Kourounis
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Since a young boy, George Kourounis has been intrigued with Earth's forces of nature and the amazing weather patterns it throws at us. His adventurous life has landed him in the midde of tornadoes, deep inside caves 900 ft below ground, huricanes, forest fires and erupting volcanoes. George shares his passion for this way of life as the host of Angry Planet and has filmed various documentaries includng some for the National Geographic Channel, CNN and the BBC.
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| 0:00.0 | The one time that I was the most filled with awe, like jaw-dropping awe, was on a |
| 0:07.2 | caving expedition that I did a few years ago in Mexico. There's a place called Nica, and it was only |
| 0:13.7 | recently discovered. There's a silver mine in north central Mexico. There were miners that were |
| 0:18.0 | 900 feet underground, and they accidentally broke into a chamber. |
| 0:22.6 | This chamber was about the size of a basketball court and it was filled with the largest crystals that anyone has ever seen. |
| 0:31.6 | These white selenite gypsum crystals. |
| 0:34.6 | Some of them were 30 feet long and weighed 55 tons. |
| 0:52.9 | Adventure Sports podcast episode 89, storm chasing and global exploration with George Coronis. |
| 0:59.6 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 1:02.8 | Brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 1:05.2 | Get out there and have some fun. A life full of adventure doesn't always involve sports. |
| 1:24.0 | George Karunis is with me today to discuss just how true this is. |
| 1:27.6 | George has been a storm chaser since 1997 and has been documenting tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, hail, lightning, and much, much more for the Angry Planet TV series as well as the National Geographic Channel. |
| 1:39.5 | He's found himself hanging inside active volcanoes in Ethiopia and filming on the edge of molten lava lakes with |
| 1:45.4 | only his protective heat suit between him and the 2,000 degree molten rock below. If that's not |
| 1:50.5 | enough adventure, George has also spent his time documenting great white sharks, forest fires, and even |
| 1:55.4 | mountain gorillas in Rwanda. George, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Travis. Glad to be here. |
| 2:00.6 | Good to have you. So, I read a few things off, but man, you've done so much more than that. You've been buried in snow caves. You've sailed around the tip of South America, visited boiling lakes, witnessed avalanches and the Dolomites. You've even been to Timbuktu? I have. Shouldn't you be satisfied once you've been to Timbuktu? |
| 2:18.1 | You'd think. I actually have a Timbuktu stamp in my passport, believe it or not. That's a rare |
| 2:22.7 | thing, I think. Yeah, just a world of adventure out there. There's so much to see and so much to do. |
| 2:29.7 | And basically what I do is I specialize in documenting extreme forces of nature. |
| 2:36.5 | So whenever there's some kind of natural force going on, I don't always like to call them disasters |
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