Ep. 1055: Arctic Sailing the Northwest Passage - Graeme Esarey
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sailing: Graeme Esarey on Northwest Passage Family Expedition, Observing Arctic Trash and Unsustainable Practices, Founding Ignik Outdoors for Sustainable Gear, and Returning to the Changing Arctic by Sailboat. Graeme Esarey is a sailor, climber, skier, and father of 2 adventurous girls. During an attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage with his family, he noticed the amount of trash heaps and unsustainable heating practices at whaling communities. Having a background in product development, he decided to found Ignik Outdoors, a company dedicated to replacing disposable products like green propane bottles with more sustainable solutions. He is headed back to the Arctic this summer on his expedition sailboat for another look at how the region is changing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast, getting this episode up a little late this week. |
| 0:12.5 | It seems to be a running theme. |
| 0:15.2 | I am on paternity leave. |
| 0:16.7 | It's busier than I expected, you know, having the newborn at home. |
| 0:20.6 | But I was able to get a lot of great interviews ahead of time. |
| 0:25.4 | And today, Graham Esery, this story is so cool because it combines an adventurer who saw a problem on an adventure and took action. |
| 0:34.9 | And now that's their career in life. |
| 0:37.3 | So Graham and his family |
| 0:38.4 | decided to do this Arctic sail through the Northwest Passage, and as we're going to hear, |
| 0:44.9 | just the challenges with that were, as you can imagine, unbelievable. But he recognized a |
| 0:49.9 | problem in an issue that applies to a lot of us while on that trip and decided to start a |
| 0:55.9 | business around that called Ignik. And it's all about reusable heating and propane cooking |
| 1:03.0 | systems. And it's really fascinating. I've got one of their refillable propane tanks now that I take |
| 1:10.4 | on my camping and paddling trips, and it's fantastic. |
| 1:13.8 | It comes with this really cool carrying case. |
| 1:15.7 | So I love the stories of adventurers who take their passion for adventure and apply it to solving some sort of problem, whether it be fundraising for issues or helping out with conservation or in this case, helping make a product |
| 1:30.8 | and a process more sustainable through reusable products versus one-time use throwaway products. |
| 1:37.1 | And Graham's story is really cool. |
| 1:39.6 | And yeah, if you want to learn more about what Graham, the climber, sailor, skier, |
| 1:44.4 | and father of two adventures girls does with Ignik, his company, |
| 1:48.0 | go to ignik.com, IGN-I-K.com. |
| 1:52.2 | All right, let's go ahead and dive in. |
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