Ep. 1144: The Grand Adventure of Life (and the North Pole) with Phil Wall
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
"If you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up too much roof!"
From UK police officer to leadership adventurer who journeyed to the North Pole to raise funding to start a school for hearing and speaking disabled children in Africa, Phil Wall has a long list of adventures. But the biggest adventure of all has been and continues to be a life well lived. Phil and his wife Wendy tried to adopt an HIV positive young girl from South Africa, but when that did not work out, they promised to devote their lives to making a difference for similar children who needed help across Africa. Now 25 adventurous years later, We See Hope, which they founded, has helped over 850,000 children. Phil and Wendy simply decided to take a risk and to do something, and what an amazing SOMETHING! This is what can happen when we decide to live the grand adventure of life.
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| 0:00.0 | We are enough. |
| 0:07.0 | We are enough. |
| 0:08.0 | We are enough. |
| 0:09.0 | We are these glorious, beautiful, spectacular, crazy, you messed up the community of people |
| 0:16.0 | or human beings. |
| 0:17.0 | And yet we're enough. We can be parents. |
| 0:19.0 | We can be good sons, good daughters, good brothers, good sisters, good partners, good partners, good husbands. We're enough. We can be parents and can be good sons, good daughters, good brothers, good |
| 0:21.7 | sisters, good partners, good husbands. We are enough. You're listening to the Adventure Sports |
| 0:27.1 | podcast. Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor |
| 0:32.5 | enthusiasts are doing all over the world. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:40.1 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | It is my honor today to share some time with Phil Wall and for you to sit in and enjoy |
| 0:49.7 | listening to this guy. |
| 0:51.1 | He's an amazing man. |
| 0:52.8 | We have a lot to talk about. |
| 0:55.3 | I mean, he's done lots of big adventures, lots of big endurance events, North Pole expedition, running the Yukon Ultra, the Welsh |
| 1:02.2 | 3,000, biking 500K in Malawi, and it goes on and on and on. But in addition to that, he's just |
| 1:09.4 | had an adventurous life. He was a policeman in the |
| 1:12.4 | UK, worked on the Riot Squad, worked for the Salvation Army in Russia, has so many stories |
| 1:18.0 | about what happens when you live life a little bit larger. And I'm just really excited to learn |
| 1:23.7 | more and to hear more and to visit with Phil Wall. Phil, welcome to the program. |
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