Ep. 115: Paddling 7 Rivers on 7 Continents with Mark Kalch
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Mark Kalch has spent 20 years paddling the world’s rivers and oceans. He was named one of the top 50 Adventurous Men by Men’s Journal and is well-versed on subject of adventure. Mark is currently undertaking a 7 Rivers / 7 Continents Project where he paddles down the longest river on each of the 7 continents. Listen in and check out his adventures in the links below.
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| 0:00.0 | These rivers are pretty formidable things and, you know, took a little bit of development, |
| 0:05.0 | but then I decided to paddle the longest river on each continent from source to sea. |
| 0:11.0 | So that's literally where the river is formed or where it basically comes out of the ground. |
| 0:17.0 | You know, it might be a spring, high up in the mountains, and then follow that all the way to that water empties into the ocean. |
| 0:41.0 | Episode 115, Kacking Seven Rivers on Seven Continants with Mark Colch |
| 0:44.9 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast |
| 0:48.2 | Brought to you by 180 TAC. |
| 0:51.3 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:06.3 | Thank you. 180 tack. Get out there and have some fun. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:09.2 | This is your host, Travis Parsons. |
| 1:11.4 | Mark Colch has spent 20 years paddling the world's rivers and oceans. He was named one of the top 50 adventurous men by men's journal and is well-versed on the subject of adventure. |
| 1:21.4 | Mark is currently undertaking a seven rivers, seven continents project where he paddles down the longest river on each of the seven continents. |
| 1:28.3 | He's with me today to talk about this and to share his other stories from some of his other |
| 1:32.3 | adventures. Mark, thanks for joining me. |
| 1:34.9 | Hey, cool. Thanks for having me, Travis. |
| 1:37.2 | Good to have you. So we catch up with you down in Argentina, yeah? |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah, yeah, I've been living down in Buenos Aires for the last three years living here. |
| 1:47.0 | But sadly, in about two weeks, two and a half weeks, we're leaving for good sort of |
| 1:54.9 | things. |
| 1:55.3 | So it's been a really fun three years, you know, some really good travel down in Patagonia and also |
| 2:01.7 | up north, northern Argentina. |
| 2:04.1 | So, yeah, I'll be sad to go, but it's been a good run for three years, for sure. |
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