Ep. 186 - Biking Across Antarctica with Dr. Kate Leeming
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kate Leeming is an expedition adventure traveler. She has biked a lot--more than twice the distance around the globe! Her travels have taken her through Europe, across Siberia, through Africa, all around Australia, for nice chilly ride in Greenland, and now she has Antarctica in her sites! Why not ride a bike to the South Pole! Listen in to hear all about what she has learned from her travels, about her ambitious plans for Antarctica, and even about all wheel drive adventure bicycles.
Want more? Try Kate's book, Njinga.
To support Kate's Breaking the Cycle South Pole expedition and to sign up for her newsletter, please contact her at www.KateLeeming.com.
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| 0:26.1 | Episode 186, Viking Antarctica with Dr. Kate Leaming. This episode of the adventure sports podcast is sponsored by biotropiclabs.com, custom formulators |
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| 1:00.1 | to high-level athletes, if your body |
| 1:02.0 | moves, you need biotropic. Hello and welcome to the adventure sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:23.5 | Today's guest is Dr. Kate Leaming. Kate has bicycled, a distance equivalent to going around the planet two times at the equator. |
| 1:34.5 | She has biked across Siberia. |
| 1:37.3 | She has biked through 20 different countries of Africa. |
| 1:41.2 | She is biked in Greenland. |
| 1:42.7 | And now, believe it or not, she is headed to Antarctica |
| 1:47.0 | to bike across the continent and through the South Pole. Kate, we've got to hear more about this. |
| 1:54.6 | Welcome to the program. Thanks, Kurt. Great to be there. Well, Kate, I mentioned a couple of |
| 2:00.7 | things about you, but tell the listeners who you are. |
| 2:03.9 | Who is Dr. Kate Leaning? |
| 2:06.6 | So, yeah, I grew up on a farm in Western Australia, so about 80 miles northeast of Perth, |
| 2:16.3 | and went away to boarding school and to university in |
| 2:21.2 | in Perth and then I always sort of really want to see the world but never really had the |
| 2:26.5 | opportunity to laugh at university and that's when I I traveled to the United Kingdom first |
| 2:31.8 | playing field hockey and after that I did a little cycle journey |
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