season five episode ten

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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.

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 Follow Tom Murphy at his website tmurphywild.com

 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.

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Follow Katie at her website katieaune.com

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 Described by some as a never ending green hell and by others as the  most beautiful bio diverse place on the planet, the jungles of Panama  attract the best and the worst of mankind.  In this episode,  conservation photographer Joshua Asel recounts his adventure into the  jungles of Panama’s Darian gap to embed with the indigenous tribal  rangers and support their efforts to counter large scale poaching of  wildlife and timber on their lands.  

Joshua is an award-winning  wildlife conservation photographer and certified Marine Ecology  Naturalist, with a photographic emphasis on coastal and marine habitats,  birds of prey, and threatened/endangered species and national parks. He  is an Emerging Member of the International League of Conservation  Photographers, a Board Member of the Bird Rescue Center of Sonoma  County, the Global Editor and Manager of the Global Parks Network at  Global Conservation, a member of the Ethics Committee for the North  American Nature Photography Association, and is sponsored by Think Tank  Photo.
 

 While in Panama, Joshua became an Honorary Tribe Member  of the Naso Indigenous People for his work helping them document their  culture and patrolling with their rangers. His current main project  revolves around critically endangered California condor conservation,  with focused efforts to establish a new home base in Sonoma County for  the Condor Recovery Program. He's also appeared on multiple judging  panels, advised on mountain lion safety for land trusts, and acted as a  consultant and principal photographer to help establish a new redwood  forest preserve in Healdsburg, California.
 

 Joshua’s stories and  images have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic,  Defenders of Wildlife, Whalebone Magazine, The New York Times, Hakai  Magazine, Alaska Airlines Magazine, The Press Democrat, NANPA  Expressions, and several scholarly articles, among others.

 The most dangerous exploration is cave diving.  Dive deep into the  earth’s underwater caves, see creatures no one has seen before, stories  of Mayan sacrifices and explore the oracle that set Alexander the Great  on his world conquests with our guest Jill Heinerth.

Jill Heinerth  is a cave diver, photographer, writer and filmmaker. Jill has explored  unmapped, underwater caves deep in the earth, as well as the submerged  crevices of the world’s largest iceberg. She has seen hidden creatures  and life forms that have never been before.  More people have been on  the moon than to places where Jill has explored. 

Jill has made TV  programs for the CBC, BBC, National Geographic, consulted on movies for  directors including James Cameron and produced independent films. Over  2.5 million people have learned about climate change, water advocacy,  and exploration by viewing Jill’s TED Talks. 

Jill was awarded  Fellowships from numerous institutions including the International Scuba  Diving Hall of Fame, Underwater Academy of Arts and Sciences, Women  Diver’s Hall of Fame, National Speleological Society, WINGS WorldQuest,  and Explorers Club, which honored her with the William Beebe Award. The  Wall Street Journal, Oprah, and New York Times lauded Jill’s  best-selling books Into the Planet and The Aquanaut. In 2024, Running Cloud Productions of Australia is releasing a feature documentary, Diving Into The Darkness, about Jill's remarkable adventures. 

Jill  serves as a tireless advocate for conservation, climate change, and  water resource protection. She works toward creating awareness and  inspiring action through her writing, photography, films, social media,  podcasts, and speaking engagements.

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Follow Jill at  IntoThePlanet.com

Luke Smithwick shares stories of his travels and adventures in the  Himalayan mountains.  The dangers of climbing remote and unclimbed  peaks, witness to ancient mask dances and blood sacrifice, and an  encounter with the rare snow leopard.

Luke Smithwick is an  American professional skier, alpinist and mountain guide in the Himalaya  with 98 Himalayan expeditions in the past 13 years. He is focused on  the unclimbed and unskied in the Himalaya and hasn't repeated an  expedition since he started climbing and skiing full time there in 2010.  Formerly he worked as an environmental biologist and archaeologist in  Alaska so his approach on expeditions isn't just about climbing summits  and first ski descents, focusing on the cultures and natural history in  each specific expedition. He lives at home in Teton valley, Idaho with  his dog Wolfie when he isn't on expedition. Having done eight to nine  Himalayan expeditions every year since 2010, that is not very often.

Follow Luke at his website lukesmithwick.com and at his Facebook page.facebook.com/himalayaslukesmithwick

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  Walking the length of Africa's Zambezi river, explorer Chaz Powell  entered a small village and saw something that he will never forget.  Witchcraft, the exorcism of a demonic spirit and the heavy presence of  evil. A strange but true story as told by one who lived it.

Chaz  Powell is an Explorer, Expedition Leader and Survival Guide. Recognized  as Explorer of the Year 2021 by the Scientific Exploration Society His  ongoing project ‘The Wildest Journey’ is all about his explorations by  foot along Africa's wildest rivers with an aim to raise awareness for  wildlife conservation and anti poaching.

In his full episode on  the podcast Whiskey and a Map, Chaz shares his experiences exploring  wild Africa. Charged by elephants, imprisoned by villagers, suffering  extreme dehydration and encounters with witchcraft, Chaz has ventured to  places where few outsiders have ever been.
Follow Chaz on his website TheWildestJourney.com

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 George Kourounis is an explorer, storm chaser & TV presenter who  has spent 25 years documenting extreme forces of nature and natural  phenomena worldwide including tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, floods,  and the effects of climate change.

He holds the title of  National Geographic Explorer, Explorer In Residence for the Royal  Canadian Geographical Society, and served the maximum term as the  Canadian Chapter Chair of the Explorers Club.

Best known for  having hosted the TV series “Angry Planet” he also co-hosted “Storm  Hunters” for The Weather Network and is a regular on-camera contributor  for “Strange Evidence” & “What On Earth?” on Science Channel. He’s  appeared in programs for National Geographic, Discovery, Smithsonian  Channel, Netflix, most of the major TV networks, and is frequently  invited to comment about global weather & natural disasters by CNN,  BBC, CBC, and other news outlets.

George earned a Guinness World  Record for being the first person to ever set foot at the bottom of the  Darvaza “Doorway To Hell” flaming gas crater in remote Turkmenistan,  the project was funded by a National Geographic science grant and was  also filmed for Nat Geo television.

He has documented changes to  melting permafrost in Siberia, sea level rise in Tuvalu, shifting  tornado & hurricane patterns in North America, wildfires in  Australia, and melting polar ice.

In 2014 he was awarded the  Stefansson Medal from the Explorers Club Canadian Chapter "For  outstanding contribution to science and to public education by  documenting extreme environments through filmmaking.” In 2020 was  awarded the Leif Erikson Exploration Award from the Exploration Museum  in Iceland.

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www.furiousearth.com
george@stormchaser.ca

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An Adventure and Exploration Podcast  

 Brandon Wilson is  Award winning travel writer, long distance trekker and peace pilgrim. 

 “Travel  is like a mirror held up against the world. It gives us a different  perspective on life. And if we hold it just right, we might catch a  glimmer of our own soul.” Brandon Wilson Brandon Wilson is an  award-winning author, explorer and peace pilgrim.

Brandon was  awarded the prestigious Lowell Thomas Gold Award for best travel book  and is an International Fellow of the Explorers Club.

He has trekked more than 12,000 kilometers in his search for meaning and enlightenment.

Get Brandon's books here:  https://brandonwilsonauthor.com/pt-wp/all-my-books/.

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An Adventure and Exploration Podcast  

Our podcast is dedicated to discussing and analyzing the latest political events and news from around the world. We cover a wide range of topics, from international relations to domestic policy, and invite experts and political commentators to join us in the conversation. Our goal is to provide a balanced and informative perspective on politics and its impact on our daily lives.

Are you prepared?  How far would you go and what risks would you accept to accomplish your goal?

In  this episode, we are joined by Cyril Derreumaux.  Cyril is French born,  American world traveler and adventurer. His exploits include  backpacking around the world, setting a Guinness record for crossing the  Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii as part of a four-man rowing  team, and then repeating that crossing over open ocean solo in a kayak.

Cyril shares with us his experience and philosophy in what it takes to accomplish seemingly impossible goals.

Please like, comment and share this episode so that your friends can enjoy Cyril’s stories.

Follow Cyril at his website cyrilderreumaux.com

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