Ep. 261: Fat Biking to the South Pole - Daniel Burton
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Did you ever think it were possible to ride a mountain bike to the South Pole? On January 21, 2014, Daniel Burton became the first person to accomplish this. Self-supported with the exception of three aerial food drops along the way, Daniel rode more than 750 miles over 51 days in blistering winds and various snow conditions. Listen in to hear all about this impressive expedition!
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| 0:00.0 | And it's like, okay, I'm finally up here. |
| 0:02.6 | And I look off into the distance, and off in the distance, I could see these three dots. And I wasn't sure at first, are they Sistrugi? Or, you know, if there's just something out there? Is that the South Pole station? Because there's a research center there. And I wasn't sure. And so I'm kind of watching it at first. And once I determined that that was really it, I mean, it was just this feeling so excited, so happy. |
| 0:27.9 | I mean, it's just the happiest thing that you could possibly imagine. |
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| 0:54.2 | Episode 261, Daniel Burton becomes the first person to mountain bike to the South Pole. |
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| 1:27.8 | Hi, and welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is Travis. Today on the line with me is Daniel Burton. |
| 1:30.6 | This guy found himself in his early 40s and decided that sitting down at a desk job and being a computer programmer might not be the best way to live out life and have the best of health. |
| 1:42.4 | So he had a few checkups of the doctor and it kind of sparked him |
| 1:45.9 | into picking up mountain biking as a hobby. Ultimately, Daniel went on to ride some pretty serious |
| 1:53.3 | races from Utah out into Jackson, Wyoming, and then ultimately had the big goal to ride his |
| 2:00.8 | mountain bike from the coast of Antarctica |
| 2:03.0 | to the South Pole, which is about 750 miles. So we're going to talk to Daniel and see what |
| 2:08.7 | sparked all of this and talk to him about his expedition and see how it all went. So first of all, |
| 2:14.0 | Daniel, welcome to the show. Thank you. Okay, so let's dive into it. |
| 2:17.7 | For starters, I alluded to health being a reason why you got into mountain biking. |
| 2:23.0 | So tell me about that. |
| 2:24.6 | Obviously, you weren't riding at the time, and something sparked you to get into taking |
| 2:29.1 | up the hobby. |
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