Ep. 159: Solo Crossing of Frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia - Gavan Hennigan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Born and raised in Ireland, Gavan Hennigan turned a life of drug and alcohol addiction into a wonderful life of adventure. Once he managed to toss his bad habits aside, Gavan learned of a whole new world involving Ultrarunning, Snowboarding, Mountaineering, Splitboarding and even found himself employed as a commercial Deep Sea Diver working on offshore oil rigs. As if living 700 ft below the surface of the ocean isn't adventurous enough, Gavan takes his breaks from his day job to explore some of the highest peaks in the world as well as the most brutal environments on our planet.
He has competed in some of the longest, toughest ultra marathons such as the Likeys 6633 Ultra 350 and the Yukon Arctic Ultra 300. He has climbed and snowboarded peaks in Svalbard, Antarctic, BC as well as Alaska. His day job entails working in depths up to 700 feet performing heavy construction work on the worlds oil rigs living inside a small diving chamber for weeks at a time. He has visited all 7 continents and has just returned from a 440 mile solo trek across a frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia. Of course he's not stopping there. His next big adventure involves rowing the Atlantic Ocean solo in 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, the first time I think about day, I think it was day five when I was on the ice. |
| 0:07.5 | And the ice actually creaks and groans a lot. |
| 0:10.4 | And there's a lot of movement in the ice because you've got this very, very long finger of a lake. |
| 0:15.4 | You know, but it's not that wide. |
| 0:17.4 | I think it's 80 kilometers wide. |
| 0:20.5 | And then there's a lot of like pressure ridges. you know, you've got like this sort of jumble ice that's, you know, had frozen early in the season. Then it, you know, thawed out and refrozes. There's big sections where you actually have to climb over chunks of ice. And I think someone told me it was on a fall line as well. So there's all this creaking, groaning and, you know, cracking going on all the time. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, even those days when I was walking along and there's like little fishery cracks shooting out for my feet. |
| 0:45.0 | You know, so it's, it was quite unnerving to begin with. This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tack. |
| 1:10.4 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:14.4 | Episode 159, Gavin Hennigan talks about his 440 meetup for Pete Schuster's Continental Divide Trail presentation tomorrow, Friday, April 22nd. |
| 1:41.2 | We'll be kicking things off at 6 o'clock at Mud Rock's Tapin Tavern in Louisville, Colorado. Some of you have started your ticket purchase process but haven't quite finished it up, so if you're planning to attend this fun event, make sure you get your ticket printed so you can get in the door. Your $10 gets you access to Peter's CDT presentation, your first drink, as well as your raffle ticket for some great giveaways. We've got stuff from two of our show sponsors, Bentgate Mountaineering and Scioli action cameras. We've also got some goodies from Backpackers Pantry as well as our own stoves by 180 tack, as well as more. If you happen to find yourself in Louisville tomorrow evening without a ticket, feel free to drop by mud rocks and you can pay at the |
| 2:17.7 | door as long as there are seating available we hope to see you there and we're looking forward to |
| 2:21.3 | meeting you hi welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 2:35.4 | This is your host, Travis. |
| 2:37.9 | So I got a great show for you today. |
| 2:44.1 | Gavin Hennigan contacted me to tell me a few things about the things he's done in his life. |
| 2:48.4 | And I've got to say, this guy is Mr. Adventure on my list. |
| 2:53.3 | I mean, of all the people we've talked to, we've got some pretty cool adventure sports out there and interviews and amazing stories. But Gavin runs the gamut of adventure. |
| 2:59.5 | And just to give you a little bit of a background, and I'll let Gavin fill you in, the guy is a |
| 3:04.9 | deep sea diver by day. That's his day job. |
| 3:08.2 | So for most people, that would be enough of an adventure in and of itself. |
| 3:12.3 | But when Gavin gets time off, you can find him, you know, the tops of mountains, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, hiking or walking Lake by Call and Siberia. There are ultra marathons in the Arctic. This guy is |
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