• James Clash: To the Edge of Space, Into the eye of a Cat 5 hurricane and Atop the World's Biggest Waves.
    Oct 23 2025

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    Jim Clash covers extreme adventure and classic rock. Over three decades of writing for Forbes, Clash, who holds an MBA from Columbia University, has penned four books, most recently Amazon bestseller “Amplified,” about ‘60s music. His first-person stories include supersonic flights in eight separate aircraft pulling up to 9 Gs and flying to 84,000 ft; driving a Bugatti at 253 mph and Indy cars at 200 mph; expeditions to the North and South Poles; summiting the Matterhorn and 23,000-ft. Aconcagua; a C-130 flight through Category V Hurricane Dorian; chasing tornadoes; riding jet skis on 60-ft waves in Portugal; a U-2 flight to the edge of space; bullfighting; being shot point-blank in a ballistics jacket, and more. Interviews include Neil Armstrong, Mario Andretti, John Glenn, Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, Grace Slick, Joe Frazier, Chuck Yeager and Edward Teller. For fun, Jim gives 170-mph rides at Daytona speedway. He’s a former director at The Explorers Club.

    See more of Jim's work at Forbes and on his FaceBook page

    Get Jim's books here on Amazon

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    #space #JamesClash #biggestwaves #supersonicflight

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Mario Rigby: Trekking Across Africa and Expedition Impossible
    Sep 29 2025

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    In 2015, Rigby embarked on his epic “Crossing Africa” expedition, traveling from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt entirely by foot and kayak. Over two years, he covered more than 12,000 kilometers across 8 African countries. Along the way, he learns of its people, languages and customs coming away with a deep understanding of the reach cultural diversity of continent. He then went on to kayak the length of Lake Ontario, bicycle from coast to coast across Canada. Mario recently returned from a month long stay in Algeria’s Sahara Desert with the nomadic Tuareg. His next adventure, Expedition Impossible will be to circumnavigate the planet solely through human powered transport and to climb the 7 summits along the way.

    Rigby is an explorer, athlete, and advocate for sustainable adventure. His mission is to inspire the world to explore responsibly while pushing human potential to new limits. He has been awarded Explorer in Residence by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.

    Follow Mario at his website www.mariorigby.com and on his FaceBook Page

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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.
    #Africa #MarioRigby #trekking

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    52 mins
  • Driving across the African continent in an old Land Rover. Safari guide in the remote Zambezi valley. Classic African adventure stories with Rob Fynn. Part Two
    Dec 18 2024

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    Driving across the African continent in an old Land Rover. Safari guide in the remote Zambezi valley. Join us for part two as we hear more tales of classic African adventure from Rob Fynn.

    Rob Fynn's family goes back in Africa six generations. He was brought up in Rhodesia and then at age 18 he left to join the Royal Navy. He was asked to leave when UDI was declared and all Rhodesians in the British armed forces were now regarded as potential rebels.

    After pursuing his engineering degree at Bristol University, he returned home driving across the African continent in a Land Rover, which led him into starting up a safari operation in the remote Zambezi valley of Zimbabwe.

    Rob Fynn is a professional guide and author. His book, Angels in a Thorn Bush is good reading. Available at Amazon and good book stores.

    Follow Rob at https://www.facebook.com/rob.fynn.

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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.
    #safari #landrover #Safariguide #Africa #RobFynn

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    59 mins
  • Driving across the African continent in an old Land Rover. Safari guide in the remote Zambezi valley. Classic African adventure stories with Rob Fynn.
    Nov 16 2024

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    Driving across the African continent in an old Land Rover. Safari guide in the remote Zambezi valley. Join us as we hear tales of classic African adventure from Rob Fynn.

    Rob Fynn's family goes back in Africa six generations. He was brought up in Rhodesia and then at age 18 he left to join the Royal Navy. He was asked to leave when UDI was declared and all Rhodesians in the British armed forces were now regarded as potential rebels.

    After pursuing his engineering degree at Bristol University, he returned home driving across the African continent in a Land Rover, which led him into starting up a safari operation in the remote Zambezi valley of Zimbabwe.

    Rob Fynn is a professional guide and author. His book, Angels in a Thorn Bush is good reading. Available at Amazon and good book stores.

    Follow Rob at https://www.facebook.com/rob.fynn.

    Support Michael's work by visiting MichaelReinhartPhotography.com

    Hosted by Michael J. Reinhart
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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.
    #safari #landrover #Safariguide #Africa #RobFynn


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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Behind Enemy Lines: War correspondent Jacques Leslie's eyewitness accounts of the conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia and India
    Sep 12 2024

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    In this episode of Whiskey and a Map, award winning journalist and author Jacques Leslie recounts his years as a war correspondent covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and the Indira Gandhi crises in India.

    At the age of 24, Jacques Leslie became a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent, and covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia for two years. For that work he won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for foreign correspondence and an Overseas Press Club citation. He began writing about environmental issues two decades ago, and won numerous awards including the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for the “elegant, beautiful prose” of his 2005 book on dams, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment. Now a Los Angeles Times contributing opinion writer, he is working on a book about the Klamath River basin on the California-Oregon border.

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    Follow Jacques at jacquesleslie.com

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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.
    #Vietnamwar #vietnam #warcorrespondent #Cambodia #JacquesLeslie


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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Afghan warlords, Somali pirates, crossing the world's most dangerous jungle and other stories of adventure with Rasmus Krath
    Aug 24 2024

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    In this episode, we are joined by Danish adventurer, documentarian and speaker Rasmus Krath. Rasmus ventures solo into some of the most dangerous places on the planet armed only with camera and the ability to connect with and gain the trust of the people who live there. His adventures have taken him into active war zones of Afghanistan to meet local warlords and across lawless Somalia to interview pirates. His latest expedition takes him across the most dangerous jungle in the world- The Darien Gap of Central America- where he traveled with human smugglers and migrants to document their journey as they suffered the dangers of the jungle and the criminal gangs praying upon them.

    Support Michael's work at MichaelReinhartPhotography.com

    Follow Rasmus at https://www.rasmuskrath.dk/

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    https://www.facebook.com/rasmus.krath.3/

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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.

    #Afghanwarlords #Afghanistan #somaliapirates #Adventure #AdventureStories #migrants #wildlife #wildlifephotography #DarienGap #trueadventurestories #immigration

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    54 mins
  • Facing down grizzly bears, charging mountain gorillas, a solo ski crossing of Yellowstone in winter and other adventures with award winning wildlife photographer Tom Murphy.
    Jul 25 2024

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    Facing down grizzly bears, charging mountain gorillas and a solo cross country ski crossing of Yellowstone in winter, are just some of the adventures award winning wildlife photographer Tom Murphy shares with us in this episode of Whiskey and a Map.

    Tom uses his photography to illustrate his passion for the remaining wild places on our earth. Yellowstone National Park’s wildlife and landscapes are the special focus of Tom’s work. A talented naturalist and gifted lecturer, Tom has traveled the United States presenting the wonders of nature captured in his photographic slide shows.

    Tom Murphy is featured in a PBS Nature film, “Christmas in Yellowstone” which is shown every Christmas worldwide. His photography is in private, public, and museum collections around the world. He has produced seven books including the Seasons of Yellowstone, a four volume set.

    Tom serves on the board of the Yellowstone Park Foundation and the Park County Environmental Council.

    Tom donates his work to conservation organizations to help in preserving wildlife and wild land. Much of the photography in the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center in Yellowstone Park was donated by Tom for educational use by the National Park Service.

    Please support this podcast and Michael's work at MichaelReinhartPhotography.com

    Follow Tom Murphy at his website tmurphywild.com

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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.

    #Yellowstone #Adventure #AdventureStories #grizzlybears #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Solo Journey across Russia and the Former States of the Soviet Union with Adventurer and writer Katie Aune.
    Jun 18 2024

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    In this episode, Katie Aune takes on a adventure far off the typical tourist track, from riding the Trans-Siberian Railway across Russia and taking a cargo ferry from Ukraine to Georgia, to volunteering in Tajikistan and camping in the desert of Turkmenistan.

    Katie is a recovering tax attorney who has worked in nonprofit and higher ed fundraising for more than a decade while also dabbling in travel blogging and writing. Born and raised in Minnesota, Katie is currently based in Washington, D.C. Despite not traveling overseas for the first time until she was 25, she has been to 70 countries and all seven continents. She is the author of Finding Katya: How I Quit Everything to Backpack the Former Soviet States, a travel memoir that chronicles her 13-month adventure through the former Soviet Union.

    Please support this podcast and Michael's work at Michaelreinhartphotography.com

    Follow Katie at her website katieaune.com

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    Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration.

    #Russia #Adventure #AdventureStories

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    52 mins