Episode 247: Extreme Explorer - Ray Zahab
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ray Zahab is a Canadian Explorer, ultra distance runner and Founder of non-profit impossible2Possible. He specializes in exploration in extreme environments, including running across the Sahara Desert.
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| 1:45.8 | All right, folks. We're back for another episode of HBO. And for this one, I am following up |
| 1:51.4 | my interview with P. Kosselnik with another, what I would call legends of exploration is maybe a |
| 1:57.4 | good way to lay a bit of. I've got a raise, have on the, on the podcast. And |
| 2:01.9 | Ray, where do we even start with you? I mean, the big one is, obviously, you ran across the |
| 2:08.5 | Sahara Desert. And it's a fairly well-documented project that I believe the documentary was |
| 2:14.7 | released around 2006 or so, but it's still, you know, very, very well |
| 2:20.5 | received, I think, within the ultra marathon running community as like an example of how to, |
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