Inside the Epic World of Bertie Gregory

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In a collaboration with National Geographic television, we follow 29-year-old adventurer and filmmaker Bertie Gregory on a nail-biting journey to some of the harshest, most spectacular corners of the world. Join guest host Drew Jones as he sits down with Gregory to discuss coming face-to-face with buffalo-hunting lions in Zambia, searching for the largest gathering of whales ever filmed in Antarctica, diving in dangerous Costa Rican waters to film hammerhead sharks, and spreading the message of conservation in the face of nature’s greatest challenges. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Watch Epic Adventures with Bertie Gregory on Disney+, and check out some of the amazing photos Bertie and his crew have captured from his adventures, including his tree nest in Kasanka National Park, and swimming alongside whales with the help of an underwater scooter. Learn more about Bertie’s career as an explorer and photographer, which started with a childhood obsession with nature, and his extensive use of drones and other filming methods to capture spectacular landscapes and peculiar animal behaviors. Also explore: The annual migration of fruit bats to Zambia’s Kasanka National Park is a critical to Africa’s environment. This article in The Guardian shows how wildlife protectors and conservationists are working against threats from poachers and deforestation, even in the face of violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've got something new this week. Our colleague and National Geographic Channel's executive
0:07.3	producer Drew Jones is going to take us behind the scenes of epic adventures with
0:11.8	Bertie Gregory. I'll let him and Bertie take it from here.
0:15.3	You ready? I'm Bertie. Filming animals is my job. I just need a chase you see every day.
0:22.6	I take it really seriously. I'm trying to film penguins. I want to tell wildlife stories
0:32.0	in a rapidly changing world. That sounded like a big crack.
0:39.4	Bertie travels from Antarctica in search of fin whales, Zambia for crowned eagles targeting
0:46.9	bats to Coco's Island to get up close and personal with hammerheads.
0:55.0	Whoa! That has really fired up the sharks. Now you're just blasting your eyes.
1:03.3	Fire trucking is just popping.
1:07.0	To deepen the Pacific, searching for a megapod of spinner dolphins and back to Africa for
1:13.0	an epic pun intended. View of lions on the hunt. Those lion tracks have caught my
1:20.1	pulse racing. We're looking for a pride big enough to take on buffalo and after six days
1:26.7	of searching we have hit the jackpot.
1:32.3	Today we're taking you behind the scenes of National Geographic's epic adventures with
1:36.4	Bertie Gregory. We'll take you to three of the five locations we visit in this first
1:41.3	season so you can hear for yourself. In each location Bertie looks to capture a unique
1:46.9	animal interaction. But being in the right spot with the right equipment at the right time
1:52.9	is far from easy. If it was easy to do, if it was easy to say in film, it wouldn't be
2:00.1	nearly as exciting when it all kicks off. 29-year-old adventurer and filmmaker Bertie Gregory
2:15.6	is changing the way we view natural history programs. These missions are meant to highlight
2:21.6	rarely seen and sometimes underappreciated moments in the wild. All in the hopes our
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