Ep. 618: The Epic Life of a Full-Time Adventure Guide - Chris Whittaker
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what it's actually like to be a full-time adventure guide? Many of us daydream about it at our office jobs, but few ever take the plunge. Today we’re hearing from Chris Whittaker about his journey to guiding around the world and some of the twists and turns along the way. We’ll also get to hear about some of his upcoming personal adventures.
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| 0:00.0 | If you love the Adventure Sports podcast, I'm confident that you're going to love Armchair Explorer. |
| 0:04.7 | It's a new podcast by a recent guest, Aaron Miller, who is an award-winning London Times and |
| 0:09.6 | National Geographic Travel Rider, who basically sits down with some of the world's biggest |
| 0:14.8 | explorers and adventurers and lets them tell their favorite story of all time. |
| 0:19.8 | We're talking Olympic gold medalists, |
| 0:21.7 | who's backcountry ski in Alaska, to award-winning travel riders who walk across Antarctica |
| 0:27.2 | in the footsteps of Shackleton, guerrilla trekking with leading conservationists, great white shark |
| 0:33.1 | diving with some of the best in the industry, as well as interviewing astronauts about spacewalking |
| 0:39.2 | above Earth. It's honestly a condensed version of our show taking the best of the best stories |
| 0:45.1 | and letting those explorers tell them. If you're interested to hear more, I highly encourage you |
| 0:50.9 | check out armchair-explorer.com or just looking up armchair explorer |
| 0:56.5 | anywhere you find podcasts and let it inspire you to get out there and do something fun and do |
| 1:01.8 | something epic. ASP listeners, you can get 50% off your first order of CS Instant Coffee by using |
| 1:10.3 | the code adventure. Check them out. They've been a |
| 1:12.9 | supporter of the show for a while, so it would really mean a lot if you went and supported them. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you. I guess the main thing is just to be constantly aware and just checking in on people. |
| 1:23.5 | So to kind of let them do their own thing, but also knowing that you are there to take over if need be. |
| 1:29.8 | The waves and the wind picks up, you know, I'm here and I can clip on a rope and I can tow you, |
| 1:34.2 | but I'm not going to until you either ask me or it's an emergency. |
| 1:40.9 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 1:46.4 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around I just wanted to say, you know, I know there's been a lot of ads on the show lately, you know, in the middle of the show, which are called mid-rolls and also a lot of pre-rolls. |
| 2:17.9 | You just heard Armchair Explorer, a new podcast by Aaron Miller. Totally check it out. It's awesome. |
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