After winning three paralympic medals, hand-bike racer Karen Darke is tackling a long ride on every continent.  It's part of her Quest 79, an ambitious project bringing together sporting and bikepacking, hoping to recruit others to tackle their own Quest 79 projects.

We spoke over Skype with Karen in Majorca where  the Spanish authorities have locked down hard.

Karen's website, including Quest 79 and Pole of Possibility is KarenDarke.com
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Jenny Tough is running the world's mountains solo and unsupported.  Everything she needs she carries and yet somehow manages to make films of these great adventures. 

In between she’s managing to squeeze in little jaunts like cycling the Silk Road Mountain Race. 

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A UK Adventure of the Year, Will Copestake shares three great adventures in this podcast. 

Will sea kayaked around Scotland then climbed all the mountain over 3000ft, traveling between them by bike.  He became a sea kayak guide in Patagonia Chile, before organising his own expeditions.  He also runs a sea kayak guiding business in Scotland.

Most recently, he just made it home to Scotland before Coronavirus closed everything down and Will speaks to us from self-isolation.

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One rider, many different types of adventure.  Lee Craigie has been an elite mountain bike racer who represented Great Britain in the World and European Championships, and Scotland at the Commonwealth games. 

She started social enterprise type projects such as Cycle Therapy and more recently The Adventure Syndicate.  She's the Active Nation Commissioner for Scotland 

But her first love is as a wilderness trail rider tackling the Silk Road Race and setting a female record on the Highland Trail 550.  Many different types of adventure, and Lee takes us through them all.  She was self-isolating when we recorded this but is fine now.

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An extra podcast because this can't wait.  Specific advice for outdoors people who’re staying active during our partial lock-down comes from a cyclist who is also a medical expert and will soon be working with the Scottish Government.

Professor Chris Oliver is known as The Cycling Surgeon.  What’s less well known is he kayaked for Great Britain, tackling gnarly expeditions in wild parts of the world.  We talk about that and cycling across the United States of America from Los Angeles to Boston.

We start with the current state of the crisis as seen from inside the NHS in Scotland.

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What’s it like to film in minus 50degress at the south pole?  In a jungle looking for venomous creatures?  In a slot cave barely twelve inches high?  On the summit of Everest?  Keith Partridge knows because he has done it, including the climbing sequences on Touching the Void.  He shares stories from all these adventures in this podcast.

Keith is now one of the world's most sought after adventure camera operators.  He has won an Emmy plus a host of other awards, including the International Alliance for Mountain Film's Grand Prize.

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One of Scotland's most outstanding athletes with numerous world-first swims to her credit including the Pentland Firth, from Orkney to Mainland Scotland, and The Minch from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides back to the Mainland.

Colleen talks in detail about those swims, growing up in a family where swimming the English Channel was a normal, almost required, thing to do.  Plus she gives swimming tips for dealing with jellyfish.

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Colin and his paddling partner Davis were the first people to circumnavigate Great Britain in an open canoe.  Quite a trip for someone who spent most of his life as a climber, graduating to the big walls of Yosemite valley.

Colin has just written a very good book about their journey, Only Fools and White Horses available through his website Soure-2-Sea.co.uk

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Donnie has won the British trail running championships, a Skyrunning world series race, represented Great Britain, has made speed ascents of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and now coaches runners.

Here he share stories of those adventures and in particular his record breaking winter Ramsay Round of 24 Munros in 24 hours in hash, dark, winter conditions.  He’ll also share some ideas of staying fit during a lock-down. 

Donnie's website is GetActiveRunning.com
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