Ep. 211: 2015 U.K. Adventurer of the Year - Emma Timmis
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Emma Timmis is always on the move following her adventure dreams around the world. She won the United Kingdom's 2015 Adventurer of the Year for her 89-day, 2500 mile run across Africa from the Atlantic ocean east to the Indian ocean. She's on the show to tell about this and a few of her other adventures.
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| 0:00.0 | Africa likes to throw things at you in a hardcore way. |
| 0:04.6 | And then obviously animals as well. |
| 0:06.9 | There's dangerous animals around scorpions, snakes, elephants. |
| 0:10.1 | There was a few nights where I woke up in my tent in the middle of the night |
| 0:13.5 | because elephants were stomping past the tent. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay. This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:40.8 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:47.7 | Episode 211, UK adventurer of the year, Emma Timis, |
| 0:50.4 | shares some of her adventurous lifestyle with us today. |
| 1:03.8 | Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:04.7 | This is Travis. |
| 1:09.4 | Emma Timis has led a busy life as an adventurer, including winning the UK's National Adventure Award in 2015 for her |
| 1:12.6 | run across Africa, which spanned nearly 2,500 miles over 89 days from the Atlantic Ocean to |
| 1:18.2 | the Indian Ocean. |
| 1:19.5 | She's with me today to give us some insight to this and her other adventures. |
| 1:23.4 | Emma, welcome to the show. |
| 1:24.8 | Hi, Travis. |
| 1:25.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:26.7 | Good to have you. |
| 1:28.0 | So let's dive in. |
| 1:29.7 | Misadventure. |
| 1:30.6 | I've been looking to see what things you've been up to lately, and you are all over the place, |
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