Ep. 759: Paddling the Nile River - Revisited - Sarah Davis
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Paddling: Sarah Paddles Entire Nile River – First Woman to Complete Longest River in World, Facing Hippo Attacks, Arrests, Unimaginable Rapids, Civil Wars.
Originally aired Sept 12, 2019
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 foot (or paddle) in front of the other. It would become a journey filled with adventure. Hippo attacks, arrests, and unimaginable rapids, and civil wars would all be downstream for Sarah.
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| 0:00.0 | And we get going and the car starts overheating and it's overheating and overheating and overheating. |
| 0:07.9 | So to point that one time the guy opened up the boot and I just heard this smashing of glass. |
| 0:13.7 | And I'm like,, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:39.2 | Today's episode, Throwback Thursday. |
| 0:45.3 | If you're not familiar on Thursdays, we do episodes, old episodes we've had and we re-release them if you haven't heard them because we get a lot of new listeners that maybe |
| 0:49.9 | haven't heard a lot of our older episodes, but they're awesome. And so this one is from 2019 with Sarah Davis talking about paddling the Nile River. |
| 1:01.0 | And just how she got into that, what came, you know, how she came across this idea or what |
| 1:05.1 | inspired it and how she went about pursuing it and what it was actually like. |
| 1:08.9 | It's, it's crazy. |
| 1:10.5 | She ran into a lot of things |
| 1:12.3 | and it's definitely an adventure, a huge adventure to say the least. But before we jump in, I wanted to |
| 1:19.3 | read you an email that we got yesterday. And, you know, I haven't ever done this. We get these |
| 1:24.9 | emails from time to time of people who have been inspired by |
| 1:28.7 | the show. And I honestly was like, I was reading it to my wife and she was like, why don't you just share that on the show? And I thought, hi, I've actually never thought of that. So let me, let me read it to you. I won't share any specific details of who this is for privacy issues, but I'll read it. |
| 1:43.5 | Hello, Mason. |
| 1:44.2 | I'm 25 years old, and I'm from City in the Midwest. |
| 1:47.1 | I won't share which one. this is for privacy issues, but I'll read it. Hello, Mason. I'm 25 years old, and I'm from |
| 1:45.9 | City in the Midwest. I won't share which one. I just finished episode 758, Why Adventure is |
| 1:51.9 | essential. It was such a great episode to hear just before I depart on my own adventure tomorrow. |
| 1:57.5 | Tomorrow, August 25th, I fly to Frankfurt, Germany, and from there I plan to spend |
| 2:01.4 | about five weeks right on my bicycle across Germany, France, and parts of Italy. I'm extremely |
| 2:06.6 | excited, but also very anxious, especially with everything going on right now. This podcast really |
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