Ep. 1132: ALL THE WAY AROUND by Human Power with Erden Eruc
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today we visit with Erden Eruc who shares his transformative journey from a conventional engineering career to becoming an adventurer after a life-altering climbing accident. He discusses the challenges he faced while pursuing his dreams, including his remarkable circumnavigation of the globe by human power, which earned him multiple Guinness World Records. Eruc emphasizes the importance of nurturing dreams, overcoming obstacles, and the mental discipline required for long-distance ocean rowing. He also introduces his upcoming participation in the Golden Globe Race, a challenging solo sailing competition that requires traditional navigation skills without modern technology.
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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 |
| 0:12.7 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.1 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey friends, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | Today, I am thrilled to visit with Erdin Arruch, a true pioneer in human-powered exploration. |
| 0:31.6 | Erden is the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the globe entirely by human power. Now I've interviewed a |
| 0:40.6 | lot of people that have biked around the world, even people that have walked around the world, |
| 0:45.6 | but Erden added in rowing across the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Indian oceans. He |
| 0:52.0 | cycled across continents and he hiked vast terrains, |
| 0:55.7 | set 18 Guinness World Records in the process. |
| 1:00.0 | This journey covered over 41,000 miles. |
| 1:04.1 | He's now preparing for the 26 Golden Globe Race, |
| 1:08.3 | which is a solo nonstop sailing challenge around the world using only |
| 1:13.7 | traditional navigation. This is going to be fun. Put on your seatbelt and let's hear how |
| 1:20.7 | Erdin did this. So Erden, you clearly have an adventure career now, an adventure-focused life. |
| 1:29.5 | But there was a time before that, and let's go back to there. |
| 1:33.6 | What came before adventure for you? |
| 1:35.7 | I am an engineer. |
| 1:37.1 | I was trained as an engineer, and I have two master degrees in engineering and an MBA. |
| 1:43.3 | I was working in a software development world until |
| 1:47.3 | 2000 when the soft, the dot bomb happened, dot com industry came to crash in Seattle. We were all laid |
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