Ep. 1130: Alastair Humphreys Mega Adventurer Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer, author, blogger, and motivational speaker who promotes accessible outdoor experiences and environmental reconnection. He has authored a dozen adventure books, traveled around the world by bicycle, walked across India & Iceland, rowed across the Atlantic, and run several marathons in the Sahara, just to name a few exploits.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.0 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:19.9 | Episode 1,130, Alistair Humphreys revisited. |
| 0:25.7 | This episode is from 2019. |
| 0:29.1 | Mason did the interview, and he was still in Denver, Colorado at the time. |
| 0:34.1 | I think Alistair has been on the Adventure Sports podcast a couple of times, and this is the first time that he appeared with us. |
| 0:41.8 | And Alistair, if you don't know, an amazing adventurer, he's written several books about his adventures. |
| 0:49.4 | Here are just a few. |
| 0:50.2 | The boy who biked the world, the great outdoors, the doorstep mile, moods of future joys, |
| 0:59.0 | thunder and sunshine, there are other rivers, grand adventures, etc, etc., etc., lots of books. |
| 1:06.4 | Alistair is a British adventurer, author, blogger, and a motivational speaker known for promoting |
| 1:12.5 | accessible outdoor experiences and environmental recreation. He did a round the world bicycle trip |
| 1:19.8 | from 2001 through 2005, 46,000 miles. He walked across India in 2015, 2,400 kilometers, and he also has road across |
| 1:32.0 | the Atlantic Ocean. He's run at least six marathons in the Sahara Desert. He crossed |
| 1:37.6 | Iceland on foot, but his more recent claim to fame has been encouraging people to have local adventures, microadventures, close to home. |
| 1:48.5 | And I applaud that. |
| 1:50.1 | So you're going to enjoy this episode. |
| 1:52.9 | But before we dive into the show today, I wanted to thank all the Patreon members who do help to support the Adventure Sports podcast through Patreon. |
| 2:01.9 | Every little bit helps, and it goes a long, long way. |
| 2:05.2 | So thank you very, very much. |
| 2:07.5 | If you would like to be a guest on the Adventure Sports podcast, or if you know someone |
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