Ep. 1131: Europe by Horse for a Cause with Louis Hall
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Louis D. Hall is a writer, public speaker, and founder of The Big Hoof, a Scottish-registered charity harnessing the power of long-distance horse journeys to champion mental health and wellbeing. Growing up in rural Scotland, Louis discovered his calling for epic travel early on. At 18, he trekked to northern Mongolia in search of the nomadic Tsaatan tribe, where his first encounters with horses ignited a lifelong affinity for their "connecting powers." This spark led to bolder quests: a solo 1,147-mile ride from Scotland to England's southern tip, raising £38,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust; and a grueling 111-day odyssey across Europe with his Arabian mare Sasha, blazing a pioneering trail through the snow-swept Ligurian Alps, storm-lashed Pyrenees, and partisan-haunted paths to Cape Finisterre, Spain—"the end of the land."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:12.7 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.2 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi friends, thank you for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast today. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. Hi, friends. |
| 0:21.1 | Thank you for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast today. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm excited about this one. |
| 0:26.0 | I know I start most episodes by saying, I'm excited, but I am for a lot of reasons. |
| 0:32.2 | This episode is with Louis Hall, who has done a lot of work raising money for various causes, and usually did so via |
| 0:40.9 | extended horseback rides. And he did one across the southern part of Europe that was nearly |
| 0:47.9 | 2,000 miles, took over 100 days. This was a couple of years back now, maybe three years ago, |
| 0:53.4 | but I don't know how you can ride a horse across three years ago, but I don't know how you can |
| 0:55.2 | ride a horse across Europe these days, because I don't know where the trails are. So anyway, |
| 0:59.7 | this is going to be fun. We've interviewed people that have ridden horses big distances in the |
| 1:03.8 | U.S., but I didn't even know it was possible in Europe. And I love the connection between |
| 1:09.2 | horse and rider and how that can help people with so many aspects of life. |
| 1:14.6 | It's really surprising. |
| 1:15.5 | So we're going to get into that as well. |
| 1:17.0 | Louis, welcome to the program. |
| 1:18.7 | Thank you very much for having me cut. |
| 1:20.5 | Very happy to be here. |
| 1:21.6 | You've got a book about this called In Green that came out, I guess, in the spring or midsummer in the U.S. |
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