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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to the Wild Tales Podcast, I'm Jason Fox and today I'm going to be speaking to cyclist adventurer and broadcaster Mark Beaumont.

Mark holds the record for cycling around the world, a feat which has turned into a book and a Baffnominated film, The Man Who Cycling the World.

Marks also completed feats including Cycling the Americas, taking on the Africa Solo Challenge,

and a hell of a lot more as you'll hear.

The podcast is presented by the Book of Man and supported by Taliska Single Malt

Whiskey. I'd everyone. I'd like to take this opportunity now to

welcome everyone back after the Christmas and New Year break and to our first

guest of the year which is Mark Beaumont who has done an incredible amount and I don't

know even know whether we're going to be able to fit it all in in this

podcast but we're going to have a go anyway. Mark welcome thanks for coming along.

Yeah good to meet you've come quite a long way you live in. Whereabouts do you live? I now live in the heart of

Edinburgh, which is a pretty good launch pad for adventure. But I grew up in the middle of Perthshire,

foothills of the highlands,

was closer to go to Glenshee skiing than it was to go to school.

So yeah, pretty good place to start.

I'm a big fan of Edinburgh, by the way, it's an amazing place.

But what was it like growing up?

Were you sort of into the outdoors from the off?

I mean the answer is yes, but not in a not in a sort of athletic competitive way. was home schooled I was on a farm you know so

until it was 12 I did an hour or two around the kitchen table and the rest of the

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