Ep. 872: Carrying Canoes to Everest Base Camp - Kyle Roberts & Tom Schellenberg
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Canoeing, Cycling, Mountain Biking: Tom and Kyle Brothers Portage Canoes to Everest Base Camp Himalayas – Winter 300km MTB Rides, Raising $150K+ for Women's Mental Health Center in Kathmandu via The Weight We Carry. Tom and Kyle are two charismatic and adventurous Canadian brothers who have undertaken wildly outlandish pursuits such as portaging canoes through the Himalayas to Mount Everest base camp, riding mountain bikes in the middle of winter for over 300km, and traveling much of the world together. Kyle is an ultra-endurance cyclist and professional rope access technician by trade while Tom is a competitive rower and became a General Manager and COO before the age of 25. Together Tom and Kyle operate a successful not-for-profit organization called The Weight We Carry in which they have used their ambitious adventures for good by raising over $150,000 to build a women’s mental health center in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Today we’re hearing from the two brothers about their Everest Base Camp adventure. You can watch a film of the experience below.
Film link: One Step At A Time - The Weight We Carry
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Yes, today's episode is as crazy as the title sounds. Kyle and Tom are brothers from Canada. |
| 0:23.6 | Love to travel. Love to help the world. We're going to talk about that a little bit. |
| 0:27.7 | They've done a lot of humanitarian work. And they decided to put their experience of portaging canoes |
| 0:33.4 | growing up, canoeing all over Canada, and their love of travel and their love for humanitarian |
| 0:37.9 | work together to do something no one's ever done. Literally carry canoes on their head, two different |
| 0:44.0 | canoes, by the way, not just one canoe. They shared two different canoes up to Everest Base Camp. |
| 0:48.6 | And you might say, what in the world are you talking about? But that's what they did. And they did it |
| 0:53.0 | to raise money for a |
| 0:54.4 | poly women's mental health transit center and they raised 150,000 dollars it was a 30-day |
| 1:01.2 | expedition back in 2019 and no they did not get to ride the canoes I'm going to ask that in the |
| 1:07.2 | interview so I'm going to spoil that for you they did not get to there's not like rideable water up or down Everest Base Camp route. But the next adventure they're doing is |
| 1:15.5 | going to be in the Canadian Rockies. They're going to walk across the Canadian Rockies, where they're |
| 1:19.1 | from, carrying canoes on their head. So, you know, they're raising health, awareness for mental health. |
| 1:26.8 | If you ask me, they're doing a great job because |
| 1:28.8 | anybody I see carrying a canoe up to the top of Mount Everest is, there's something going on |
| 1:33.9 | in the mental health department, if you ask me. But they're such good sports about it. |
| 1:39.1 | They love, you know, they know how absurd it looks. They know it's crazy. And I absolutely love these kinds of adventures. |
| 1:45.4 | So cool. By the way, we are doing a listener survey. We're going to be making some changes to this |
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| 1:56.7 | click on the link. It's just like five or six questions. It doesn't take that long. You do get a |
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| 2:06.0 | we'll send a few more little perks and some thank yous for submitting the survey. But if your app |
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