Ep. 748: Ziplining Over Active Volcanoes and Much More - Frederick Schuett
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
“One Axe Fred”, as he’s known, is a thrill-seeking dare-devil that loves a good zipline across an extreme environment. Whether that’s in downtown Toronto ziplining with Richard Branson, or taking clients across an active volcano, Fred is willing to give it a shot! Today Fred joins us to tell us stories from some of his biggest rigged lines as well as what motivates him to do these crazy feats of adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | When you guys said ice climbing on your mountaineer and schedule, I thought you guys meant like real ice climbing. |
| 0:05.6 | But he kind of said, oh, let me see one of those axes for a second. |
| 0:08.4 | Let me see your tool. |
| 0:09.3 | And he took it. |
| 0:10.2 | And then he stuck it in the snow behind him. |
| 0:12.0 | And I thought he was just going to adjust it and give it back to him. |
| 0:14.7 | But he just left it there. |
| 0:15.6 | And then he started lowering me down with only one ice axe. |
| 0:33.3 | Yeah. down with only one ice axe. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. Today, we have a pretty interesting episode and kind of a cool coincidence. If you remember from Thursday, George Kronis was talking about, that was a throwback Thursday episode. George Kronis has done all kinds of things. He did an expedition one time in a volcano. And the person that rigged up all those lines and all that |
| 0:56.1 | safety equipment was the guest we're having on today, Fred Shuit. Fred specializes in |
| 1:04.8 | zip line rigging, in, you know, slack line rigging, and any sort of building of contraptions over extreme environments that's going to involve people, you know, slack line rigging and any sort of building of contraptions over extreme environments |
| 1:13.2 | that's going to involve people, you know, zip lining across or something. So this is what Fred does. |
| 1:18.6 | He does a lot of ice climbing and climbing instruction tutorials and classes and whatnot and expeditions |
| 1:23.8 | as well. But his specialty are these kind of unique things. And so today he's just going to be |
| 1:29.3 | telling us some stories from his experiences with this stuff. It's pretty cool. Something I never really |
| 1:34.3 | thought of with the ability to get into adventure sports as a career. But Fred's doing it, and it sounds |
| 1:41.5 | like he's having a really good time doing it, and he's been doing it for over 20 years. |
| 1:45.4 | And all his contact information, in case, you know, you have a really special ziplining job you need Fred to do. |
| 1:51.9 | Give him a call, give him a ring. |
| 1:53.7 | All his contact information, all the websites you can find him is in the show notes. |
| 1:57.9 | But before we jump in, I would love to take a minute to draw your attention to a |
| 2:02.5 | podcast that I think you might enjoy from one of our sponsors, Expedia. Out Travel the System is the |
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