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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 751: Fat Biking to the South Pole - Revisited - Daniel Burton

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6579 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Mountain Biking: Daniel Burton First to Bike to South Pole – Self-Supported 750-Mile Ride Over 51 Days, Aerial Food Drops, Blistering Winds, Snow Conditions.

Originally Aired April 13, 2017

Did you ever think it were possible to ride a mountain bike to the South Pole? On January 21, 2014, Daniel Burton became the first person to accomplish this. Self-supported with the exception of three aerial food drops along the way, Daniel rode more than 750 miles over 51 days in blistering winds and various snow conditions. Listen in to hear all about this impressive expedition!

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And it's like, okay, I'm finally up here.

0:02.6

And I look off into the distance, and off in the distance, I could see these three dots.

0:07.6

And I wasn't sure at first, are they Sistrugi?

0:10.0

Or are they just something out there?

0:12.0

Or is that the South Pole station?

0:13.0

Because there's a research center there. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Actually, I'm not the host today. This is a throwback episode.

0:37.6

And Travis, who used to be one of the hosts, he's actually hosting this episode. It's from

0:42.7

2017, and we're talking about fat biking to the South Paul. And fat biking is just, you know,

0:49.4

those bikes with really large tires to be able to ride over difficult terrain. A lot of different benefits to that.

0:56.9

But in one of those benefits is being able to ride on snow and on ice and ride to the South

1:01.6

Pole, which is pretty crazy. And Daniel Burton, who we're talking to today, was the first person

1:06.1

to do that. It was very first, which is really cool to think about and really cool to accomplish.

1:11.7

And so even if you don't have aspirations to do an adventure on the ice or on the snow or in some sort of cold environment like this,

1:18.6

it's still the lessons are there, the principles are there of adventure and getting out there and being more adventurous and doing something out of the box.

1:27.1

Very excited to get into this episode.

1:28.7

But before we do, I did want to give a shout out to rerouted, the sponsor of today's

1:33.3

episode.

1:34.3

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1:40.4

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1:51.8

So if you've got stuff in your closet that you don't use that you think someone could use, go to their website, rerouted.com.

1:58.3

It's also in the show notes.

1:59.8

And you'll be able to learn more there and how you can get some extra cash and help

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