Ep. 778: Self-Supported Paddleboarding Adventure in Nepal - Revisited - Liam Kirkham
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
River rafting in Nepal: Liam Kirkham's epic downhill river journey to mark fatherhood, defying "no time for adventure" warnings, buying a non-refundable ticket to Nepal, and convincing an inexperienced friend over beers to join the paddleboard-inspired expedition.
Usually, we hear from folks climbing the record-breaking peaks of the Himalayas when we talk about Nepal. However, today is a little different. We’re actually heading downhill and talking about an epic river trip by Liam Kirkham, a veteran guest of the show and a fantastic storyteller. He was previously on episode 344 talking about solo winter kayaking trip through the Grand Canyon.
Liam recently became a father and was trying to combat what so many people tell him, “you’ll have no time for that” or “your priorities will change”. He’s learned that they were half right. As a way to ensure he’d do something epic to kickoff fatherhood, he bought a non-refundable plane ticket to Nepal and let the idea of the journey grow from there.
A few months earlier he had intended to do a paddleboard trip down the River Thames but life had gotten in the way, however, the remnants of a paddleboard trip were still lingering in his mind. He started reading guidebooks and looking at maps for a river that would be suitable. He also began looking for someone to go with him. After several pints of beer with a good friend (with no experience) he convinced him to join. The adventure was on!
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| 0:00.0 | I have recently fallen in love with paddleboarding and I can blame all of that on my bluefin stand-up |
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| 1:36.3 | sup boards.com. So we had to go left because that was where the line for the rapid was, but then we met this sort of like, oh, and if we don't go left, there's all these boulders fallen into the river. So of all the things we predicted and read and the guidebooks, we never probably noticed we didn't post any episode on Monday. And frankly, I just needed |
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