Ep. 322: 1800+ Miles Across Patagonia Solo on Horseback - Nancy Pfeiffer
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As a neophyte horsewoman with a minimal command of the Spanish language, Nancy rode off across Patagonia, alone, on horseback. Over the next decade and three thousand miles of rugged horse trail, Patagonia’s wild country and the hardy pioneers who settled there took her in and changed her. The book "Riding Into the Heart of Patagonia" is the story of that journey. It is also the story of Patagonia, a spectacular wilderness and rich, self-sufficient culture on the brink of rapid change. The book is available for pre-order at Amazon now and will deliver May 1, 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, the active volcanoes, big storms, raging rivers. |
| 0:05.6 | It's a spectacular place. |
| 0:08.1 | And I think in a lot of ways, that's why I felt so strongly that it was worth, like, this place cannot succumb to kind of our never-ending quest for more. |
| 0:20.5 | Us somehow protect this wild place. |
| 0:24.2 | Episode 32, a solo horseback journey across Patagonia with Nancy Pfeiffer. |
| 0:30.3 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:34.3 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:38.4 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. Now |
| 0:42.9 | here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello, friends. |
| 1:01.8 | Thank you again for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. Kurt here. |
| 1:08.1 | I have Nancy Pfeiffer on the horn here today, and she has an amazing story to tell. |
| 1:10.7 | This story is about culture. It's about adventure travel. It's about connecting with |
| 1:14.8 | people and a landscape in a way that few people get the opportunity to do. It started in |
| 1:21.7 | 1999 when Nancy decided to go to Patagonia on the Chile side. She wanted to encounter the land and the |
| 1:30.6 | people in the way that the people encountered the land and each other, and that meant on horseback. |
| 1:36.4 | So as a neophyte horsewoman, knowing very little Spanish, she went down to Patagonia and spent |
| 1:43.9 | 10 years exploring Patagonia. She wrote her horse over 3,000 |
| 1:49.5 | kilometers in this process. Out of that grew a book that we're going to talk about today, |
| 1:55.6 | riding into the heart of Patagonia. Nancy, welcome to the program. Hey, thanks for having me. Oh, you bet. I am so excited to |
| 2:04.1 | hear about this. I mean, when I first saw what you had done, I thought, we frequently |
| 2:11.6 | interview people about a trip that they did, or an expedition, a climb, or maybe about a sport that they do repeatedly, but rarely do I get the |
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