Tales of Adventure, by Haus of Hiatus
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago -A podcast from digital brand growth studio, Haus of Hiatus, to share first-hand accounts of real people balancing challenge, adversity, and purpose, with life, career, and family responsibilities.
Find out more at www.thetalesofadventure.com and www.hausofhiatus.com
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Episode 20 ~ Cat Burford, aka 'The Molar Explorer', a dentist skiing 700+ miles to the South Pole in 2024
June 30, 2024 14:45 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBIn episode 20, we talk to to Cat Burford, aka ‘The Molar Explorer’, a Dentist aiming to ski 700 miles solo and unsupported to the South Pole, to fundraise for charity and increase the depth of women’s health data in Polar exploration, later this year. We discuss the role models that inspired her to take up this epic challenge, the difficulties in getting it funded, the scientific studies it’ll be adding to, the expeditions she’s used to prepare herself for it, and the many lessons she’s ...
Episode 19 ~ Harry Amos, Pacific Ocean rower
June 21, 2024 08:46 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBIn episode 18, we talk to Harry Amos, a former Army officer and one quarter of the ‘Brothers N Oars’ ocean rowing team that successfully rowed 4,500km from California to Hawaii in 39 days. We discuss how he had to speak to over four hundred leads to get the expedition funded, how ‘it will pass’ became the team mantra, the unique weather challenges of rowing the Pacific Ocean, breaking the rudder, deploying the para-anchor 3 times and being hit by Storm Calvin! Find out more about the i...
Episode 18 ~ Hugh Keir, the power of group expeditions
February 16, 2024 13:22 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBIn episode 18, I talk to Hugh Keir, a former Parachute regiment sniper, host of the H-Hour podcast and organiser of cool group expeditions that bring people together. We discuss the importance of community and how group expeditions can widen our personal and professional networks, making the stresses of life more manageable, what ‘Zillennials’ are, and how these things keep us sane when we pass 40. Around a ton of laughs, there is genuine ideas on how to get out of a rut if you’ve found you...
Episode 15 ~ Jo Bradshaw, Everest summiteer, and mountain guide
July 22, 2023 05:22 - 1 hour - 106 MBIn episode 15, I interview Jo Bradshaw, a mountain guide and Everest summiteer who’s one mountain away from completing the Seven Summits challenge to fundraise for ‘Place2Be’, a children’s mental health charity. In the episode, she tells me how she started her adventurous on a bike ride in Peru in 2004, when she cycled over 500km from Lake Titicaca to Machu Picchu in Peru, to having just one climb left to join the Messner group of those that’ve stood atop the seven summits (the highest p...
Episode 17 ~ Sam Sidiqi, the first Afghan to summit Mount Everest
June 13, 2023 17:58 - 1 hour - 119 MBIn this episode, I talk to Sam Sidiqi, now the first Afghan mountaineer to summit Everest! After interviewing him on Episode 11 of the Tales of Adventure podcast (which you can listen to here), his remarkable determination and achievement serves as an inspiring message to the youth of Afghanistan, encouraging them to believe in their own capabilities and strive for greatness. Motivated by his passion to foster mountain sports in Afghanistan, Sam embarked on his Everest expedition wit...
Episode 16 ~ Hari Budha Magar and Justin Oliver Davies, a pair of adaptive athletes aiming to summit Everest
June 07, 2023 14:24 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MBIn episode 16, I interview Hari Budha Magar and Justin Oliver Davies, a pair of adaptive athletes aiming to summit Mount Everest! In the episode recorded in 2021, they tell me about their experience climbing Kilimanjaro, the narrow bosses ridgeline on the way to the Mont Blanc summit, the difficulties of finding prosthetics for mountaineering, and how they plan to tackle the challenge of summiting Mount Everest! Special thanks to Alec Seaman and Darren Coventry at BFBS Creative for h...
Episode 15 ~ Jo Bradshaw, Everest summiteer, and mountain guide with just one mountain left to complete the seven summits!
April 17, 2023 18:18 - 1 hour - 110 MBIn episode 15, I interview Jo Bradshaw, a mountain guide and Everest summiteer who’s one mountain away from completing the Seven Summits challenge to fundraise for ‘Place2Be’, a children’s mental health charity. In the episode, she tells me how she started her adventurous on a bike ride in Peru in 2004, when she cycled over 500km from Lake Titicaca to Machu Picchu in Peru, to having just one climb left to join the Messner group of those that’ve stood atop the seven summits (the highest p...
Episode 14 ~ Wendy Searle, polar expedition leader, speechwriter, and the 7th woman in history to ski solo to the South Pole
March 08, 2023 11:37 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBIn episode 14, I talk to Wendy Searle, who in January 2020, became the 7th Woman in history to ski solo to the South Pole. Now, she’s a polar expedition leader, speechwriter, an inspirational speaker on adventure and mental resilience, and also a mother of four. In the episode, Wendy highlights she had a relatively ordinary existence until 2015, when she met a team going to Antarctica. Afterwards, she began to wonder if someone with no experience, time, or money, could successfully complete...
Episode 13 ~ Nick Spicer FRGS, a business founder, father, and disaster response volunteer aiming to complete the infamous Yukon 1000, a self-supported pairs canoe race through the US wilderness
February 09, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBIn episode 13, I talk to Nick Spicer FRGS, a father, disaster response volunteer, and founder of renewable energy company, YourEco, about his personal goal of completing the Yukon 1000, a race held in the remote backcountries of the US and Canada that ends inside the Arctic circle, and is completed in pairs using either sea kayaks, canoes, or stand-up paddleboard, in under 10 days. We discuss his experiences on other big endurance events (such as the Marathon des Sables, Brutal iron-distanc...
Episode 12 ~ Sam Cox, a Royal Marines Major training to complete a world record ski expedition in Antarctica (via the South Pole) in winter 2023
January 30, 2023 18:21 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MBIn episode 12, I talk to Sam Cox, a Royal Marines Major who will embark on a unique solo and unsupported crossing across Antarctica to set a world record in November 2023. Starting at the coast of Berkner Island and finishing at the base of the Reedy glacier, via the South Pole, this expedition will see him ski a total distance of 1,950km, in one of the last wildernesses - a pure test of physical and mental endurance. Joining the Royal Marines in 2010, he has tested himself throughout the ...
Episode 11 ~ Sam Sidiqi, mountaineer aiming to be the first Afghan to summit Everest
January 25, 2023 08:20 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBIn episode 11, I talk to mountaineering charity Founder, Sam Sidiqi, who’s embarking on a hugely inspiring world-first mountaineering endeavour in 2023. After unofficially becoming the first Afghan to summit the highest mountain in the US, Mount Denali (subject to official confirmation) in 2021, Sam will try to become the first Afghan to summit Everest in the spring 2023. The focus of his climb will be to raise awareness and funds for the Afghan Peaks charity to help in its mission of prom...
Episode 10 ~ Alice Morrison, author, remote adventurer, and desert explorer.
January 11, 2023 13:37 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBIn episode 10, I talk to Alice Morrison, an international author, explorer, and adventurer, known for her writing about her travels to and experiences in remote, challenging, and sandy locations in the Middle East and North Africa (‘MENA’). Often highlighted as the ‘Indiana Jones for girls’, she is the author of "Walking with Nomads", and "Dodging Elephants," which detail her journey through the Sahara Desert (where she stumbled upon dinosaur footprints and discovering a lost city whilst tr...
Episode 9 ~ Wim Stevenson, marketing manager at Montane
December 21, 2022 07:16 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBStarting his professional career in architecture; Wim shares his story of how he came to end up in marketing for a prestigious British outdoor clothing company, what the future might hold for the outdoor industry, and also practical tips for those aiming to get expeditions funded or supported with equipment or clothing.
Episode 8 ~ Dr Stephen Fabes, 6 years spent cycling 53,000 miles through 75 countries.
December 13, 2022 12:46 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB‘They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: shut up, listen, know something, care. The same could be said for life on the road, too.’ In episode 8, we talk to Dr Stephen Fabes - a medical doctor who finally found his way home in 2016 after cycling the length of six continents - a six-year adventure across 75 countries and 53,000 miles. When Stephen left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind. O...
Episode 7 ~ Sally Orange, multiple world record holder, Mountaineer, Marathon des Sables finisher, and mental health advocate.
December 13, 2022 12:33 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBIn episode 7, we talk to Sally Orange, a holder of multiple Guinness World Records and world firsts! Sally has run over 50 marathons, completed 7 full Ironman triathlons and has completed 22 years’ exemplary service in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Physiotherapy Officer. This included an operational tour of duty in Afghanistan. Sally captained the first British female team to complete the relentless Race Across America, the world’s toughest cycle race and has also ran the toughest footr...
Episode 6 ~ Lucy Shepherd, remote explorer, mountaineer, arctic pathfinder, and jungle survivor
December 13, 2022 12:12 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBIn episode 6, we talk to remote explorer, mountaineer, arctic pathfinder, and jungle survivor, Lucy Shepherd. Lucy explains the personal importance of her term 'don't lose your botheredness’ using epic tales from past expeditions as the vehicle. She shares her perspective on what she thinks are the fundamentals needed to accomplish seemingly impossible goals and dreams. Made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society at just 23, Lucy is an adventurer in every sense of the word: She has tra...
Episode 5 ~ Krish Thapa, ex-SAS mountain leader, and founder of HST Adventures
May 14, 2020 16:02 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBIn episode 5, I talk to ex-SAS mountain leader, charity founder, and former Gurkha soldier, Krish Thapa about the philosophy of adventure . Born in a village near AnnaPurna, Nepal and joining the British Army at a young age, Krish has led and summited expeditions to some of the highest and most challenging peaks in the world, notably: Everest, Dhaulagiri; Makalu; Manaslu and K2! Founding his own guiding company, HST adventures, and the Sustainable Himalayan Foundation, a not-for-profit tha...
'Intrepid' [vol v] ~ Chrish Thapa: elite mountaineer and founder of the Sustainable Himalayan Foundation & HST Adventures
May 14, 2020 16:02 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBIn [episode v] of the intrepid podcasts, we talk to elite mountain guide, charity founder and former Gurkha soldier Chrish Thapa. Born in a village near AnnaPurna, Nepal and joining the British Army at a young age, Chrish has led and summited expeditions to some of the highest and most challenging peaks in the world, notably: Everest, Dhaulagiri; Makalu; Manaslu and K2! Founding his own guiding company (HST adventures) and the ‘Sustainable Himalayan Foundation’ (a not-for-profit that suppo...
Episode 5 ~ Krishna Thapa, ex-SAS mountain leader, and founder of HST Adventures
May 14, 2020 16:02 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBIn episode 5, I talk to ex-SAS mountain leader, charity founder, and former Gurkha soldier, Krishna 'Krish' Thapa about the philosophy of adventure . Born in a village near AnnaPurna, Nepal and joining the British Army at a young age, Krish has led and summited expeditions to some of the highest and most challenging peaks in the world, notably: Everest, Dhaulagiri; Makalu; Manaslu and K2! Founding his own guiding company, HST adventures, and the Sustainable Himalayan Foundation, a not-for-...
'Intrepid' [vol iv] ~ Justin Oliver Davis, Inspiration through adversity
May 06, 2020 06:48 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MB“I now accept that I have been set on a completely different pathway - one of learning, adapting, discovering, enlightening, sharing and challenging. I now aim to continually push my personal and physical limits to summit the highest peaks in the World, and in doing so, raise awareness for the disabled and less fortunate in the World.“ In [episode iv] of the intrepid podcasts, we talk to retired soldier, double amputee, mountaineer, adventurer and keynote speaker: Justin Oliver Davis (aka i...
Episode 4 ~ Justin Oliver Davis, adaptive mountain athlete
May 06, 2020 06:48 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MB“I now accept that I have been set on a completely different pathway - one of learning, adapting, discovering, enlightening, sharing and challenging. I now aim to continually push my personal and physical limits to summit the highest peaks in the World, and in doing so, raise awareness for the disabled and less fortunate in the World.“ In [episode iv] of the intrepid podcasts, we talk to retired soldier, double amputee, mountaineer, adventurer and keynote speaker: Justin Oliver Davis (aka i...
Episode 3 ~ Laura Try, indomitable ocean rower
May 03, 2020 09:09 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBIn [episode iii] of the Intrepid podcasts, we talk to the indomitable ocean rower Laura Try (otherwise known as ‘LT’ to her friends!). In her talk at August’s Tales of Adventure, Laura shared her story of how she went from a shopaholic-salon owner to minimalist Atlantic Ocean rower and adventurer in the space of just 4 years. In this update, Laura uses anecdotes from her time on the Atlantic Ocean with team Row for the ocean, and how endeavour has helped make lasting and monumental life ch...
'Intrepid' [vol iii] ~ Laura Try: indomitable ocean rower
May 03, 2020 09:09 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBIn [episode iii] of the Intrepid podcasts, we talk to the indomitable ocean rower Laura Try (otherwise known as ‘LT’ to her friends!). In her talk at August’s Tales of Adventure, Laura shared her story of how she went from a shopaholic-salon owner to minimalist Atlantic Ocean rower and adventurer in the space of just 4 years. In this update, Laura uses anecdotes from her time on the Atlantic Ocean with team Row for the ocean, and how endeavour has helped make lasting and monumental life ch...
Episode 2 ~ Bags Simmons, founder of Bare Arms
March 05, 2020 11:24 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBBenjamin 'Bags' Simmons: co-founder of Bare Arms Hear how Bags' experiences in the British Army's Royal Tank Regiment - and deployments to Afghanistan - helped shape and inspire him to start his own business; 'Bare Arms' - an innovative and forward-thinking organisation teaching extras to use firearms on film and TV sets, safely and authentically.
'Intrepid' [vol ii] ~ Bags Simmons Bare Arms
March 05, 2020 11:24 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBBenjamin 'Bags' Simmons: co-founder of Bare Arms Hear how Bags' experiences in the British Army's Royal Tank Regiment - and deployments to Afghanistan - helped shape and inspire him to start his own business; 'Bare Arms' - an innovative and forward-thinking organisation teaching extras to use firearms on film and TV sets, safely and authentically.
Tales of Adventure-Toby Cronshaw Mantis Tools
February 15, 2020 13:12 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBToby Cronshaw: owner and designer of Mantis Tools; mountaineer; snowboarder; graphic designer; climber and speed-wing enthusiast. Hear how Toby’s experiences as a youngster helped shape him, his love of graphic design, 80’s adventure sport branding and the influences that inspired him to create an indoor ice climbing tool and how the demand has kept him on his toes (and in the laboratory!)
'Intrepid' [vol i] ~ Toby Cronshaw Mantis Tools
February 15, 2020 13:12 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBToby Cronshaw: owner and designer of Mantis Tools; mountaineer; snowboarder; graphic designer; climber and speed-wing enthusiast. Hear how Toby’s experiences as a youngster helped shape him, his love of graphic design, 80’s adventure sport branding and the influences that inspired him to create an indoor ice climbing tool and how the demand has kept him on his toes (and in the laboratory!)
Episode 1 ~ Toby Cronshaw, founder of Mantis Tools
February 15, 2020 13:12 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBToby Cronshaw: owner and designer of Mantis Tools; mountaineer; snowboarder; graphic designer; climber and speed-wing enthusiast. Hear how Toby’s experiences as a youngster helped shape him, his love of graphic design, 80’s adventure sport branding and the influences that inspired him to create an indoor ice climbing tool and how the demand has kept him on his toes (and in the laboratory!)