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Armchair anthropologist Matthew McConaughey paddles down the Amazon River on the trail of a bizarre, reoccurring dream. What he finds there circles back decades later and transforms his entire life.

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Joe Sills
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They disappeared in February of 1959, a well-equipped group of seasoned hikers on one of the most remote mountains in the world. What transpired in the cold of the Siberian winter was classified by Soviet authorities for decades. It remains an unsolved mystery today, and the location of those events now bears one of the hikers names— Dyatlov Pass.

On this episode of The Get Lost Podcast, cinematographer Brian Weed joins us to talk about his journey to Dyatlov Pass as a crew member for Discovery's Channel's Expedition Unknown. Along the way, he details his own unusual experiences in the Ural Mountains and posits a theory for the group's disappearance.

Guest: Brian C. Weed
Host: Joe Sills

Learn more: DyatlovPass.com, Expedition Unknown, Astonishing Legends

The straining of knots, the clattering of a ship’s bell and the flutter of footsteps bounding their way towards the boats—the sounds here started 3,000 years ago. Here in Oman, the sand and surf collide over a Bronze Age harbor that played host to archaeologist and conservator Raven Todd da Silva. This week, Raven takes us on site to experience what it's like to bring the past back to life after three thousand years.

Guest: Dig it With Raven
Host: Joe Sills
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Alannah's dreams are pitted against Hurricane Dorian when the catastrophic storm traps her in the Bahamas, stopping her plans to meet Congressman John Lewis in their tracks. Along the way, we talk diving on lost shipwrecks of the transatlantic slave trade, adapting coral reefs for climate change, and the challenges faced in the immediate aftermath of Dorian.

Background: Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas on September of 2019, taking with it at least 74 lives in the island nation that sits just 300 miles off the coast of Florida. The Category 5 storm was the most powerful recorded hurricane to every make landfall in the Bahamas, leaving a trail of destruction that will last for generations.

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Alannah Vellacott
Coral Vita
Joe Sills
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Mark journeys to the North Pole, where he encounters a bizarre spectacle in one of the most isolated places on Earth. Along the way, he talks about helping the Top Gear team on their own Arctic journey and teaches us how climate change is making expeditions much more challenging as sea ice disappears in front of his eyes.

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Mark Wood
SOLO 100 Expedition
Joe Sills
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You've heard what it sounds like to travel the Arctic, now see what it looks like thanks to these amazing books from our guest, Mark Wood.

Rollie quits his job on Wall Street to pursue a life of cage fighting, hitch hiking and storytelling around the globe. Along the way, he bumps elbows with a South American fighting legend and scales Machu Picchu.

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Rollie Peterkin
Joe Sills
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Catarina travels to Turkey during the coronavirus pandemic. En route, she gets a glimpse of what international travel looks like amidst a worldwide health crisis, discusses the responsibility that travelers have to global health, and makes her way from Istanbul to the far reaches of one of the world's most culturally rich countries.

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Catarina Mello
Joe Sills
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Doug takes us to the Sky Islands of Arizona, a unique natural habitat being ripped apart by Donald Trump's border wall. There, 30-foot-tall pylons of steel—enough to build 10 Empire State Buildings—are being driven into the ground as contractors dynamite through mountain ranges and disrupt critical habitat for species like jaguar, javelina and endangered fish and reptiles.

Along the way, he helps make a scientific discovery and faces a late night encounter with a vigilante.

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Guest: Doug Main
Host: Joe Sills
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Read More: "The U.S. border wall is tearing through wilderness, right under our noses" - National Geographic

J.J. finds himself stranded on an isolated research station in Antarctica. With an assignment from National Geographic and no camera crew, it's up to him to carve out an award-worthy story from the ice and the team of stoic Kiwis he's destined to cover.

Guest: J. J. Kelley
Host: Joe Sills
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Meredith packs her bags for an all-inclusive wedding retreat but ends up at a surf hostel on the Nicaraguan coast.

Guest: Meredith [for real]
Host: Joe Sills
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