Today’s guest is an adventurer, filmmaker, writer and one of the most extraordinary travel storytellers of her generation.

Eva zu Beck's life reads like something from a film. She was Oxford-educated, working in travel media, married, successful, and living the kind of polished, high-achieving life so many people are told to want. But behind the scenes, she knew something wasn’t right. So she walked away from it all. The marriage, the career, the security, the neatly mapped-out future, and bought a one-way ticket to Nepal.

Over the past nine years, Eva has travelled almost constantly, often to some of the wildest, most remote and most misunderstood places on earth. She has crossed the Mongolian wilderness on horseback, travelled through the mountains of Pakistan living alongside local families, spent months on the otherworldly island of Socotra in Yemen during lockdown, and driven her old Land Rover Defender, Odyssey, from Mexico through Central America and the United States, all the way to the northernmost point of Alaska.

You’re going to love this one guys.

Destination recap:

• Holly - Forestis, Dolomites, Italy
• Carpathian Mountains, Poland
• Marrakech, Morocco
• Nepal
• Mongolia
• Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Gobi Desert, Mongolia
• Pakistan
• Northern Pakistan, Pakistan
• Himalayas, Pakistan
• Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan
• Arabian Sea, Pakistan
• United States
• Montana, United States
• Alaska, United States
• Mexico
• Dalton Highway, United States
• Deadhorse, United States
• Romania
• Carpathian Mountains, Romania
• Transylvania, Romania
• Transalpina, Romania
• Maramureș, Romania
• Socotra, Yemen
• Central Asia
• Russia
• Central Africa
• Sahara
• Northern Canada, Canada
• Patagonia, Argentina and Chile

Eva’s new book, The Wilder Way, is out now, and if you loved this conversation, I think you’ll absolutely love the book too.

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