Ep. 727: Paragliding the Path of the Monarch Butterfly - Benjamin Jordan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Jordan is back on the Adventure Sports Podcast with another incredible journey to share. He recently retraced the iconic path that Monarch Butterflies take every year from a remote mountainous region of Northern Mexico all the way to Canada. It’s a phenomenon that science doesn’t quite understand and one that Benjamin was inspired to try himself.
A documentary about the nearly 3,000 km experience, "Fly Monarca", drops Thursday, May 6th at Midnight EST at flymonarca.com.
Listen to Benjamin’s previous episode on Adventure Sports Podcast here: Ep. 524: Vol-Bivouac Paragliding 1,200-Km of the Canadian Rockies - Benjamin Jordan
https://www.adventuresportspodcast.com/2019/05/ep-524-vol-bivouac-paragliding-1200-km.html
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| 0:00.0 | inside of realizing that like as much as I try to, you know, use my brake toggles and use my brain and use my smartphone and use my forecasting and my in reach to be in control of the situation, that the reality is that I was never once in control of this situation. Happy Monday, folks. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:31.0 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.0 | Let's just jump right into it. |
| 0:35.5 | Benjamin Jordan was on the show before episode 524, I believe it was. Yep, 524. He was literally paragliding the length of the Canadian Rockies, and there's a documentary out about that. Never been done before. So unreal. Some of the stories would blow your mind. Some of my favorite |
| 0:55.9 | stories I've ever heard on this show were from that episode. And this one, I was a little bit |
| 1:02.0 | awestruck by just the ability for Benjamin to tell a story to talk about things so nonchalantly |
| 1:09.6 | and just to do something so massively crazy, which is |
| 1:14.1 | literally flying 3,000 kilometers from Mexico to Canada, essentially, along the length of the |
| 1:21.1 | Rocky Mountains, which is just nuts. And why he did that was to follow the length or follow the route that the monarch butterfly takes every year. |
| 1:31.0 | If you don't know monarch butterflies, beautiful, you know, orange and black butterflies, you see them, |
| 1:38.0 | Google a picture of them, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. |
| 1:41.9 | They migrate from up in Canada down to Mexico every year. |
| 1:46.5 | One generation will migrate all the way from Canada down to Mexico to this very specific region. |
| 1:53.0 | They all accumulate on these trees, get so, there's so many butterflies on the trees that the limbs break. |
| 2:00.6 | It's unbelievable. And then over the |
| 2:03.6 | course of three generations, they make their way back to Canada after the winter is over. And so |
| 2:09.4 | they're doing that trip now. And last year around this time is when Jordan was doing his trip, |
| 2:15.5 | flying the path that they take from Mexico to Canada. |
| 2:18.7 | Unbelievable journey. And his documentary about this experience called Fly Monarcha |
| 2:24.3 | is coming out in three days. It's going to air Thursday at midnight, Eastern Standard Time, |
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