Rob Saunders: Brisbane based climber, paddler and adventurer on the Tasmanian climbing and expedition based documentary “In the Footsteps of John Stuart”

We’re excited to bring you Episode 14 of the Into the Wee Hours Podcast and this really interesting chat with Rob Saunders.

In this episode we talk to Brisbane based, Rob Saunders - the man behind the heartfelt documentary - In the Footsteps of John Stuart. This short film is currently touring in Australia with the Wild film festival.  It covers Rob’s incredible, personal and historical journey to find his great uncle John’s grave in an unrecorded location on a Tasmanian mountainside, following a tragic climbing and exploration expedition in 1956 which ended in John’s death. 

We would certainly encourage you to check out the film - you can view a trailer of In the Footsteps of John Stuart here.

We mainly focus on the development and making of the film, which involved a challenging expedition into the wilds of Tasmania for Rob and a select team of friends. We chat to Rob about many aspects of what a remote bushwalking and climbing adventure like this entails; not to mention the comparison between wilderness adventures for his Great Uncle in the 1950s, compared to now. 

We also chat about the logistics behind filming your own adventure, and touch briefly on Rob’s recent trip to k’Gari (previously known as Fraser Island) and his aspirations to create another adventure based film. As is becoming the case with many of the awesome everyday adventurers we chat to, we barely scratched the surface of Rob’s adventure knowledge and experience! 

We also have some big news! We’ve launched an Into the Wee Hours Podcast Patreon account. As much as we’re doing this for fun, podcasting certainly doesn’t come without its own financial costs - and we would be sooooo grateful if any of you listening would be inclined to throw a few dollars our way. There’s absolutely no pressure, but if you’re curious you can check us out on patreon - https://www.patreon.com/intotheweehourspodcast

We would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and seas where this podcast is being recorded. The land of the Gubbi Gubbi people on the sunshine coast. We pay respect to their elders past, present and those emerging.