Ep. 975: When Adventure Becomes a Nightmare - Revisited - Davey Du Plessis
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Kayaking the Amazon: Davey Du Plessis' solo 4,000-mile journey from Andes source in Peru to Atlantic in Brazil – epic adventure turning to survival in the jungle, as told in his book Choosing To Live.
Davey Du Plessis, an avid cyclist and paddler, wanted to solo navigate the full length of the Amazon river by kayak from its source in the Andes of Peru to the Atlantic ocean in Brazil. After about 2 months and 4,000 miles, his amazing adventure took a dark turn...\
His book: Choosing To Live: A remarkable true story of adventure and survival in the Amazon Jungle
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:24.8 | Today is a throwback Thursday episode. |
| 0:27.1 | We are talking to Davy Duplessi. |
| 0:30.3 | This episode is originally from 2015, episode 121. |
| 0:35.4 | And we're talking, Travis was hosting this episode and we're talking about an adventure |
| 0:40.9 | going dark or going bad and what I mean by that is you know we one of the themes of this show is |
| 0:48.2 | that the world is in a better place than a lot of us think it is I know on the news especially right now |
| 0:53.6 | there's a lot of conflict it feels like. I know on the news, especially right now, there's a lot of conflict. It feels like the world's, you know, at war. But remember, the news is the exception to the rule. That's why it's news. 99% of the world, I don't know the exact, you know, percentage, but it's at peace. People are trying to get along. People are trying to just get on with their day, |
| 1:12.4 | make some money, feed their families, have fun, enjoy their lives. The vast majority of people |
| 1:18.2 | doing that. And adventure teaches you that better than anything, anything I've ever done. But sometimes |
| 1:23.4 | things do happen. We've definitely had a lot of stories on the show of when things go awry, |
| 1:28.4 | things don't go to plan, or when we see the darker side of humanity. This is one of those |
| 1:32.9 | stories. It's not meant to scare you or dissuade you, but to show you, you know, some of the |
| 1:37.6 | reality that can't happen. It's not always rainbows and sunshine. And those stories are really |
| 1:42.0 | fascinating. There's a lot of lessons we can learn in them. |
| 1:45.1 | And also, you know, it helps being prepared. It helps to know what you're getting into. |
| 1:49.9 | It helps to be ready for certain circumstances. But to not walk around with a sense of fear, |
| 1:55.9 | but a sense of, you know, just knowing, being aware of your surroundings and sometimes things happen. |
| 2:02.1 | And this is Davy's story. |
| 2:03.9 | It's a powerful story. |
| 2:05.2 | And we haven't shared it in a long time. |
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