Ep. 548: Self-Supported Paddleboarding Adventure in Nepal - Liam Kirkham
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Usually, we hear from folks climbing the record-breaking peaks of the Himalayas when we talk about Nepal. However, today is a little different. We’re actually heading downhill and talking about an epic river trip by Liam Kirkham, a veteran guest of the show and a fantastic storyteller. He was previously on episode 344 talking about solo winter kayaking trip through the Grand Canyon.
Liam recently became a father and was trying to combat what so many people tell him, “you’ll have no time for that” or “your priorities will change”. He’s learned that they were half right. As a way to ensure he’d do something epic to kickoff fatherhood, he bought a non-refundable plane ticket to Nepal and let the idea of the journey grow from there.
A few months earlier he had intended to do a paddleboard trip down the River Thames but life had gotten in the way, however, the remnants of a paddleboard trip were still lingering in his mind. He started reading guidebooks and looking at maps for a river that would be suitable. He also began looking for someone to go with him. After several pints of beer with a good friend (with no experience) he convinced him to join. The adventure was on!
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| 0:00.0 | And as we're looking at it, in the sort of flat bit on the right, these huge massive boulders were landing. |
| 0:05.2 | What's going on there? |
| 0:06.2 | So we looked up above the cliff and a couple hundred foot above the cliff they're trying to dig out a road. |
| 0:10.9 | And they're just throwing these massive boulders into the river, like just launching them down the sides. |
| 0:18.8 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:24.9 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 0:43.3 | First. First of all, I hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:47.1 | And secondly, thank you so much for tuning in today. |
| 0:51.6 | Looks like this month we're going to break another record for downloads per month. |
| 0:56.0 | That's almost every month we break a record. So the show is growing. |
| 1:02.6 | This community is growing and I'm so excited to have more time to devote to it coming up here soon. |
| 1:08.7 | But before we get started, I did want to mention, I got an idea brewing and I want to kind of gauge the interest. I would love, love, love to do an adventure |
| 1:12.6 | sports podcast meetup at some point, a trip actually to a national park. Do some hikes, |
| 1:20.0 | camp out at the park, and spend maybe like a week hanging out, maybe not that long, maybe a |
| 1:26.4 | weekend. But if you guys are interested, |
| 1:29.0 | I would love to plan an adventure sports podcast trip for fans of the show to meet up, meet each |
| 1:35.7 | other, and just hang out by a campfire and just basically do a big official trip together. |
| 1:41.6 | Let me know if you're interested in that. If we get enough interest, |
| 1:49.1 | we'll plan some. Anyway, today we're featuring Liam Kirkham. He's been on the show before. |
| 1:55.6 | He was back on episode 344 talking about a solo kayaking journey through the Grand Canyon in the winter. Pretty amazing. I hadn't even listened to that one yet. So we're going to do that one for |
| 2:00.6 | a replay |
| 2:01.1 | episode probably next week because that just that deserves another list and that one that's amazing |
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