Redefining Adventure
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When we talk about adventure, we often think of extreme endeavors. But what actually is an adventure? And why do some of us seek them out?
On this episode, we talk with Alastair Humphreys, author of the book My Midsummer Morning.
After a lifetime of chasing traditional adventures, Alastair wanted a different sort of challenge. So he set off on a journey across Spain, with the intention of earning his keep through busking. The trip was simultaneously safer and scarier than anything he’d done before, and it changed his view on what adventure means.
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| 0:00.0 | I was really frustrated by the amount of toilet paper that I saw just sort of discarded on the ground in this really fragile alpine environment. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 0:19.4 | The person you just heard is Anastasia Allison. |
| 0:23.1 | She's the founder of Kula Cloth, which is one of our sponsors for this episode. |
| 0:28.2 | Kula Cloth got started because Anastasia wanted to find a better option than using all this |
| 0:32.9 | toilet paper when you're out in nature. |
| 0:35.1 | And so I went home and I did some research and I came across an article |
| 0:39.3 | where a woman was talking about using a bandana as a pea cloth. And I think my first reaction to that was, |
| 0:47.5 | oh my gosh, that's disgusting. But she tried it out anyway. And to her surprise, the bandana was great. |
| 0:56.6 | She still used normal toilet paper for number two, but for just peeing, this was a game changer. |
| 1:03.9 | So she decided to design a pea cloth that was a real piece of gear, something intentional, something people could get excited about. |
| 1:12.8 | And thus, Kula cloth was born. |
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| 1:27.8 | promo code out there. |
| 1:35.8 | When we talk about adventure, we often think of extreme endeavors, |
| 1:41.0 | summiting mountains, surviving in the wilderness, sailing around the world. |
| 1:46.2 | But what is it that makes those things adventures? |
| 1:49.8 | What actually is an adventure? |
| 1:52.6 | And why do some of us seek them out more than others? |
| 1:57.0 | Today we're going to talk with a person who, for most of his life, defined adventure in the |
| 2:02.1 | traditional sense. |
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