Ep. 316: Human Powered Traverse of the Planet - Sarah Outen
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
London2London:Via the World
Between 2011 and 2015, Sarah Outen kayaked, cycled and rowed over 20,000 miles around the northern hemisphere - across Europe and Asia, the Pacific, North America and the Atlantic. It was a journey of contrasts and extremes in terrain, weather, cultures and climates.
Book: "Dare to Do"
www.sarahouten.com
Twitter: @Sarahouten
Kickstarter campaign for the film of London2London:Via the World film : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarahouten/london2london-via-the-world-by-sarah-outen-and-jen
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| 0:00.0 | It was remote. It was wild. Really quite unforgiving conditions. You've got the Bering Sea to the north and the Pacific to the south. And the difference in air temperatures means you get a lot of weather systems forming out that way and rumbling eastwards. |
| 0:17.5 | Episode 316, four and a half years around the world using human power with Sarah Uten. |
| 0:24.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:28.3 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:36.6 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:50.9 | Hello, friends. Welcome again to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm so excited to share our guest with you today. Sarah Uten from the UK is here, and many of you may know what her claim to fame is. |
| 1:04.2 | What an amazing story she has to share. Back in 2011, she took off on a bid to circumnavigate the planet, all human-powered. |
| 1:14.5 | And she did this with kayak, bicycle, and rowing. |
| 1:19.2 | And she learned so much about herself and about the world. |
| 1:23.7 | She came back, she wrote a book, which we're also going to talk about. |
| 1:26.7 | The book is called Dare to Do. |
| 1:29.1 | And she has a Kickstarter campaign right now for a film, a documentary about her journey. |
| 1:34.8 | And we're really excited to hear all the details. Sarah, welcome to the program. |
| 1:39.6 | Thanks for having me, Curtis. Good to be with you today. |
| 1:42.4 | Oh, yeah. It's exciting for us. This is an amazing story, Sarah. I really don't know where to start. I guess, let's do this for the listeners, so they kind of have a framework. Howell just give us a couple of bullet points about the trip itself. So just a brief sketch. Where did you go and how did you get there? |
| 2:02.8 | And then we'll dive into the details after that. Okay. So I started in 2011 and kayaked to France |
| 2:10.6 | from London and then I cycled across Europe and Asia to the far edge of Russia, |
| 2:16.7 | kayaked and cycled down to Japan. And then from there I rode Asia to the far edge of Russia, kayaked and cycle down to Japan. |
| 2:18.3 | And then from there I rode across to the Aleutian Islands |
| 2:23.3 | and from there, kayaked the length of the Aleutian chain |
| 2:28.3 | in Alaskan Peninsula before cycling across the North American continent |
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