Ep. 569: Canoeing 1,000 Miles Through Canada’s Tundra - Stephan Kesting
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Stephan Kesting is probably best known for the huge number of Brazilian jiu-jitsu videos he has on Youtube, the martial arts training articles he’s written for Grapplearts.com, and his instructional videos which people consume in app form, online streaming form, and DVD form.
What’s not as well known is that he’s also a full-time firefighter who received the national medal of bravery for helping save two trapped firefighters from a collapse in a burning warehouse.
He’s also been an avid outdoorsman for decades. For example, in 2015 he was dying of kidney failure due to a genetic condition. A kidney transplant saved his life and 6 months later he completed a 50 km mountain endurance hike with 2,600 meters of vertical climb and descent in the snow in a single day.
He recently completed a 42 day, 1000 mile canoe trip that took him from the boreal forest of northern Canada to the open barren land tundra, and then down to Hudson bay. He was by himself and carried all his food and supplies with him. It was truly the adventure of a lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | Check out CS Instant Coffee, the makers of the world's best Instant Arabica coffee. |
| 0:06.9 | I took some with me backpacking this weekend. |
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| 0:17.9 | Polar bears are humongous. |
| 0:20.0 | They're 100% carnivore. |
| 0:21.9 | You look like their preferred food, which is a seal, except you can't swim as good. |
| 0:26.4 | And so that 30-mile stretch between the Seal River, Churchill, which I did years ago, was terrifying. |
| 0:37.3 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, trying to help you find adventure. ago was terrifying. |
| 0:39.9 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:48.9 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 1:06.4 | Hey folks, today we're talking to Stefan Kesting about a thousand-mile canoe journey in the tundra of Canada. |
| 1:08.3 | Man, a place that I don't know much about. |
| 1:10.2 | I really encourage you to look at a map of this area. |
| 1:12.8 | It is just mind-blowing how vast and how many lakes, how much water there really is. |
| 1:19.1 | It's a lot like alpine forests just without the big mountains in the background. |
| 1:23.5 | Just beautiful area with lots of dangers and lots of isolation. |
| 1:28.4 | Stefan is really well known as a Brazilian jiu-jitsu teacher. |
| 1:32.4 | He's got 20-something million views on YouTube. |
| 1:35.9 | You can check him out at grapplearts.com or on YouTube. |
| 1:39.6 | He's also a full-time firefighter, |
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