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🗓️ 19 September 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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“There are fishermen…that go out swimming, with nets, they don’t even have a boat. They’ll go out with nets in crocodile infested waters. And they’re like, ‘Well, we don’t have a choice, I can’t afford a boat, I need to eat, my family needs to eat,’” says Levison Wood, explorer who walked almost the entire Nile River in one go.
We’re continuing our Classics with some conversations that tell us about the uncharted places in the world that many of us haven’t even considered visiting. These explorers literally risked their lives to do what they’ve accomplished. In this episode you’ll learn…
If you want to watch the full episodes,
Episode 044 with Levison Wood: https://youtu.be/bwqM81DfC9g
Episode 104 with Shannon Galpin:
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0:00.0 | And I make people like that all the way, you know, fishermen that spend, you know, that go out swimming with nets. |
0:04.1 | They don't get from a boat. They'll go out with nets in crocodile infested waters. |
0:08.1 | And they're like, well, we don't have a choice. I can't afford a boat. I need to eat. My family needs to eat. |
0:12.4 | Welcome to the Spartan endurance series on the Spartan Up podcast. |
0:16.0 | Have you ever struggled to take on something new, to break new ground? |
0:20.0 | Today we dig into two classic Spartan-Up interviews to learn what two explorers who literally took their lives in their hands as they pushed into new territories. |
0:29.0 | We start with Levison Wood. This interview was recorded in 2014 days after he returned from walking the Nile. |
0:36.0 | Over 5,000 kilometers on foot through Python-infested swamps and through war zones. |
0:42.0 | He told our host, Dell, what drove him forward and what the |
0:46.2 | adventure taught him about human strength. And then after the break, we'll hear from the 2014 National |
0:51.7 | Geographic Explorer of the Year, Shannon Galpin, about her work |
0:55.6 | with young women and mountain biking in Afghanistan. |
0:58.8 | If you want to dip into more classic Spartan Up lessons, visit Spartan.com |
1:03.0 | slash Tough Bible, where we've compiled some of our favorites. |
1:07.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Duralane, |
1:10.0 | a single injection |
1:15.0 | site that may provide up to six months relief from osteoarthritis knee pain and pain at the injection site. |
1:18.0 | You can see full prescribing information at doorlane.com. |
1:22.0 | Well, for the past nine months, I have been walking along the world's longest river, |
1:27.5 | the River Nile, through six different countries, starting in the Highlands of of Rwanda through Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, |
1:35.9 | Sudan and finally Egypt which I returned from yesterday covered well over 5,000 |
1:41.0 | kilometers on foot. |
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