Ep 1156: Crossing Death Valley On Foot - Ashly Winchester Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Endurance: Ashly Winchester on World's Leading Women's FKT Record (39 Titles) and Her 165-Mile Death Valley Crossing Attempt. Ashly is no stranger to going out on a limb to follow a crazy idea. From driving 15+ hours through the night to climb a mountain, to leaving her stable career to become a freelance writer, she’s at home in the world of taking chances.
This love of adventure has led her to be the world’s leading women for total ‘fastest known times’, or FKTs, a challenge to do an outdoor route or trail faster than anyone has done it before. To date, she has 39 of these records with no other woman in the world having more.
Her most recent FKT attempt was to cross, on foot, 165-miles of the arid moonscape that is Death Valley. The journey was treacherous and beautiful. It was everything in one. The challenges she faced out there were not what you would expect from a desert either.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover |
| 0:11.6 | what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey everyone, Caleb here. Now I know what you must be thinking. |
| 0:21.6 | This is most definitely not Kurt's voice. |
| 0:24.5 | Well, as you can probably imagine, producing a podcast like the Adventure Sports |
| 0:29.2 | podcast takes a lot of time and effort. |
| 0:32.3 | And over the years, I've helped out with the Adventure Sports Podcasts on the back end, |
| 0:36.6 | editing episodes here and there as |
| 0:39.4 | Kurt and Mason needed it. And so Kurt reached out to me, who by the way is also my dad, |
| 0:48.6 | to see if I would do a few of the revisited episodes to free up his schedule a little bit. |
| 0:56.1 | Speaking of which, today's episode Revisited is Crossing Death Valley on foot with |
| 1:02.5 | Ashley Winchester. |
| 1:04.2 | This is a fantastic episode where Ashley talks about her attempt to complete a fastest known time, FKT, on foot across the 165-mile |
| 1:20.2 | arid moonscape of Death Valley. |
| 1:24.7 | Ashley Winchester is a fantastic athlete known for her FKTs, having more FKT records than any other woman at the time of this episode's original release. |
| 1:37.4 | I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 1:39.1 | Here's Mason. |
| 1:40.3 | Ashley, welcome to the show. |
| 1:42.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:43.1 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:44.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:44.9 | So, you know, I really do always ask this first. |
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