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We all know, nothing quite matches the feeling of hearing untold stories from unknown places for the very first time.There are countless moments, conversations, and experiences in the mountains that many trekkers have never heard of, but simply listening to them can take you straight into their soul. Where every word feels raw, real, and deeply inspiring.Now imagine gaining all of this insight directly from someone who has lived these experiences. Through this podcast, you’ll not only hear numerous untold stories, but you will also learn a lot of things about trekking from the expertise of ...

Ranger Theo Wilder reveals why the world's vast steppes are thriving ecosystems packed with resilient wildlife, hidden complexity, and critical carbon storage. Journey across continents to discover the beauty and urgent importance of Earth's most underestimated wilderness. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Twinnies Moving Abroad 🎙️🌍 Hey, wir sind Shari & Valeria – Freundinnen, die ständig für Zwillinge gehalten werden und denselben großen Plan haben: In einem Jahr mit unseren Familien nicht mehr in Deutschland zu sein. Eine von uns ans andere Ende der Welt & eine von uns ums Eck. Nicht, weil wir einfach nur weg wollen – sondern um unser Leben in Spanien und Australien noch mal neu zu leben. Für uns & unsere Kinder! Wir reden sowieso ständig über unsere Auswanderungspläne .. also dachten wir, warum nicht einfach ein Mikro anmachen & euch dran teil haben lassen ! In diesem ...

Join Felix Mercer as he explores abandoned ghost towns, crumbling institutions, and forgotten industrial sites to uncover what these decaying spaces reveal about boom-and-bust economics, human ambition, and our relationship with ruins. Each episode examines why these places captivate us and what we risk losing. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Ranger Theo Wilder guides you through Olympic National Park's Hoh Rainforest, where moss-draped giants and entire ecosystems thrive in silence. Each episode explores different trail dimensions—from microscopic symbioses to glacier-capped peaks—revealing why this remains one of Earth's most intact wilderness experiences. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Join Ranger Theo Wilder to discover the craft, culture, and ceremony of bonfires. Learn to build fires with purpose, explore humanity's ancient relationship with flame, and uncover fire rituals from around the world that transform gathering into something sacred. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the world’s most dangerous big-game animals. After consulting African game experts and recalling his own experiences and those of his colleagues, Capstick has written chilling, authoritative accounts of hunting the five most dangerous killers on the African continent—lion, leopard, elephant, Cape buffalo and rhinoceros.

If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would really be like, they might have hesitated. They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them...no idea they'll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain...no idea they'll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a mule. Will they stay, or will they return to the relative sanity of England?

Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert. There's no easy way across, as he and his team discover on their most challenging expedition yet.

Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises. An idiosyncratic, splendid autobiography of a well known...

Dom Joly was born in Beirut and lived there until he was 18. He lived through the civil war, went to school with Osama Bin Laden, and learned to ski. At the age of seven he was sent to an English boarding school. It was a schizophrenic existence. Dom's parents divorced when he was 18, and he moved permanently to the UK, becoming a diplomat, a political journalist and then famous as a man who dressed as a giant squirrel. He has been back to Lebanon only twice since. Then he read about an attempt to encourage tourism in this long-suffering country: The Lebanon Mountain Trail.

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich – the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Month: a stunningly evocative portrait of Hitler’s Germany through the people of a single village. Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place...

From First Footing to Samhain, Fringe Festival follies to whisky lore, Sam and Graham guide listeners through a year of Scottish legends, traditions, historical and contemporary events, sharing personal stories and tips as only these two chalk-and-cheese friends can. As entertaining as it is practical, The Clanlands Almanac is a light-hearted education in Scottish history and culture, told through the eyes of two passionate Scotsmen. The perfect escapist guide, The Clanlands Almanac is intended as a starting point for your own Scottish discoveries.

David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the extraordinary techniques used, the detailed research, and mid-ocean stamina and courage required to find a wreck thousands of feet beneath the sea, plus the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the adventuring derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a scientist, The Shipwreck Hunter opens an illuminating porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean.

Brought to you by Penguin. Lucy Shepherd’s story of her journey to become an explorer, her world-first expedition across the Amazon’s Kanuku Mountains and her mission to share the wild places of our world. What does it really take to become an explorer? To travel beyond maps and certainty...

In the fall of 1978, Ray Ordorica packed everything he thought he would need into his Toyota LandCruiser and drove north to Alaska. He came to a land he had never seen, to find something he wasn't even sure existed: a wilderness cabin he could use for a year or more to live, think, relax, read, and write. Ordorica found his cabin, fixed it up, and, although it was just an un-insulated 12- by 16-foot one-room log structure, he spent three winters in it in relative comfort.

Written by an airline pilot and a clinical psychologist, this combination of practical explanation and self-help techniques is the definitive guide to help nervous passengers overcome their fear of flying. Lighthearted, unpatronising and informative.

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. She meets...

As a development platform for desperately needed advanced technology, the experimental starship Foresight is the greatest hope humankind has to flee the alien hordes. For test pilot Captain Nicholas Shepherd, the success of the program is even more personal. Successful completion means delivering his wife and son safely off-world and leaving the war behind for good. But when Foresight suffers a critical malfunction during her final scheduled flight, what should have been a minor setback becomes a major fight for survival.

Brought to you by Penguin. From YouTube adventurer and National Geographic TV host, an inspiring travel memoir of one woman’s solo adventures around the world and her pursuit of freedom. Eva had it all: a high-flying job, a picture-perfect marriage, a lifestyle that many would aspire to. Yet...