Ep. 1000: Shifting From Global to Local Adventures - Alastair Humphreys
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer and author who famously spent over 4 years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and 5 continents. This was followed by a walk across India, rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, running six marathons through the Sahara desert, a crossing of Iceland, busking through Spain and an expedition in the Arctic.
Despite these massive adventures, Alastair is most famous for coining the concept of “microadventures” which earned him National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and numerous awards for his book of that name. The whole point of microadventures is that you do not need much time, money or specialized gear. A microadventure can be anything that feels fresh, new and challenging for you. This was the subject of our last conversation with Alastair back in 2019. You can listen to that here.
Today we’re talking about taking the concept of microadventures to a whole new level.
Most recently Alastair has spent a whole year exploring the land within 10 kilometers of his home. Every week, he would pick a new place within that range to explore and camp. The change and perspective shift that he experiences through this adventure has caused a massive shift in his outlook, which we’ll get into today.
Learn more about this experience through his new book, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wilderness. You can also purchase Local here:
Learn more about Alastair at alastairhumphreys.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:26.1 | Today's a new episode. |
| 0:27.4 | And oh my gosh, thousand episodes. |
| 0:29.9 | Holy cow, here we are. |
| 0:31.7 | Episode 1,000. |
| 0:33.5 | It has been a heck of a journey. |
| 0:35.4 | If you don't know, I wasn't the original host. |
| 0:38.4 | Kurt and Travis were the ones that first started this show, built it up for the first, gosh, four years, three, four years, and then handed the show over to me right around episode 400, 420, something like that. |
| 0:50.3 | And, you know, they built the foundation, they laid that groundwork, they planted all those seeds. And I got to basically reap the harvest all this five, six years later. So, man, it has |
| 1:00.2 | been a heck of a journey. I absolutely love it. So thank you so much to all of you who have |
| 1:05.8 | been listening for, you know, years and maybe you're new. you've got a lot of back catalog to listen to. So |
| 1:12.2 | for those of you that have been around a long time, thank you so much. And for those of you that |
| 1:16.8 | support us on Patreon, thank you. That means the world to us. I've been getting a lot of letters |
| 1:22.0 | from folks lately about how much the show means to them. That kind of stuff keeps us going and keeps us wanting to |
| 1:28.6 | continue to do this and bring the show to you. So first and foremost, thank you to everybody that has |
| 1:33.1 | helped us get to this point. Without people listening, I really wouldn't have an incentive to |
| 1:37.2 | keep doing this. I love these conversations. And even if no one ever listened to it, I get a ton of |
| 1:42.9 | value out of them. But it sure as heck helps. |
| 1:45.4 | It definitely helps justify it to my family that a lot of other people like it too. So thank you. |
| 1:51.3 | And this is a huge milestone, of course. And to celebrate this special day, I wanted to have |
| 1:55.7 | someone on the podcast that has made a really significant impact in my life from an adventure point of |
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