Ep. 891: A 10-Year Journey Through Patagonia On Horseback - Revisited - Nancy Pfeiffer
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Horseback riding across Patagonia: Nancy's decade-long solo journey as a beginner horsewoman with limited Spanish, covering 3,000 kilometers of rugged trails, embraced by the wild landscape and hardy pioneers, forever changed by the experience, as told in her book Riding Into the Heart of Patagonia.
As a neophyte horsewoman with a minimal command of the Spanish language, Nancy rode off across Patagonia, alone, on horseback. Over the next decade and three thousand kilometers of rugged horse trail, Patagonia’s wild country and the hardy pioneers who settled there took her in and changed her.
She published a book about the experience, Riding Into the Heart of Patagonia. When she is not in Patagonia, she lives in a cabin outside Palmer, Alaska, where she enjoys the luxuries of hauling water, chopping wood, and high-speed Internet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:27.9 | Geez, it must be horse week or something here at ASP because on Monday we featured Ben Masters |
| 0:33.3 | who rode wild Mustangs from Mexico to Canada. |
| 0:36.8 | And today we're throwing it back to Nancy Pfeiffer, who did this amazing, not |
| 0:42.0 | is doing this amazing decades-long journey through Patagonia on horseback. |
| 0:47.9 | As you'll hear, she started out as a novice horsewoman, took off across Patagonia alone on horseback. Talk about an epic journey. |
| 0:58.2 | And over the next two decades and 3,000 plus kilometers of extremely rugged horse trail, |
| 1:05.1 | she learned so much about the culture, about the way of life, and about the place of Patagonia. And now she is even a guide |
| 1:14.5 | to that area. She published the book that we're talking about, writing into the heart of |
| 1:20.3 | Patagonia. It was released in May 2018. It's available on Amazon. There's a link in the show notes. |
| 1:25.9 | And when she's not in Patagonia, she lives in a |
| 1:28.4 | cabin outside Palmer, Alaska, where she enjoys the luxuries of hauling water, |
| 1:34.2 | chopping wood, and high-speed internet. And this is just an amazing story of someone living life |
| 1:40.6 | probably very differently than most of us. I'm sure a few listeners out there living similarly. |
| 1:48.0 | I know a lot of you are because you ride in and say that that's actually something I hear back a lot |
| 1:54.0 | is like, you know, it's nice when I listen to this show, people say this, by the way, to know I'm not the only crazy one out there, to know that other people |
| 2:01.7 | are just as crazy, have the same insecurities, the same crazy ideas, the same desire to break away |
| 2:07.9 | from the mold. And Nancy's story is going to make you feel that way if you at all have the same |
| 2:12.9 | feeling. So, you know, two horse shows in a row, what are the chances? |
| 2:18.4 | I'm going to tell you they're pretty slim. |
| 2:20.1 | And on the horizon, I don't see any other horse stories coming up. |
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