Ep. 570: Paddling the Nile River - Sarah Davis
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sarah has always been involved in sports and has always loved adventure. She credits her mother for that. As a child she would pour through her mother’s photo albums of faraway places, hoping to one day go herself.
After years of working in the world of banking and traveling to over 40 countries, Sarah was thumbing through adventures that have never been completed when she realized no woman had ever paddled the entire Nile River, the longest river in the world.
She immediately began planning what that would look like to attempt. She was overwhelmed with fear and worry, but that didn’t stop her.
Today, we’re listening to her story of paddling the entire Nile River and what it means to put one food (or paddle) in front of the other, even when your comfort zone is nowhere in sight.
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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. |
| 0:09.1 | It was amazing. |
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| 0:17.3 | We were going along and on the left of us we saw this baby pop up. |
| 0:22.5 | We were then on the lookout. |
| 0:23.7 | Well, where's mom? |
| 0:24.8 | And she turned out, she'd actually gone a little way away from baby. |
| 0:27.9 | We then drifted basically between her and the baby. |
| 0:31.3 | And if there is one rule of dealing with hippos, it is do not get between a mother and a baby. |
| 0:39.5 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:45.9 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their |
| 0:51.2 | life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 1:07.2 | Hey folks, hope you're having a good week so far. Remember, today is not a revisited episode. |
| 1:12.3 | It's a new episode. We're not going to be doing the Friday episodes anymore just Monday, |
| 1:18.9 | Thursday. And today we're interviewing Sarah Davis, who was the first woman to lead an expedition down the Nile River in an attempt to paddle the whole thing. But you'll hear that there was some |
| 1:26.2 | political turmoil along the way, some |
| 1:27.8 | danger that was sort of unavoidable. So they had to just skip a little bit of it in South Sudan |
| 1:33.3 | just because it was extremely dangerous. But nonetheless, it was a crazy adventure that took a long |
| 1:41.0 | time and was thousands and thousands of miles down the longest river in the world. |
| 1:46.4 | Pretty incredible. |
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