In this episode, I chat to author Maria Coffey.

Maria has written 10 different books, including Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure and Explorers of the Infinite: The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes-and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond.

We chat about why it is the brushes with death that make us feel most alive, the experience of transcendence and the wild stuff that comes with it.

Links mentioned in the conversation:

• Maria's website
• Touching the Void Movie
• Stephen Venables survival story on Everest
• Hans Lindermann's 1956 kayak crossing of the Atlantic
• Robert Anton Wilson Explaining Reality Tunnels

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