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The Art of Adventure is a weekly podcast from Arthur Beale hosted by Hugh Taylor. Each episode dives into one extraordinary journey, from history’s most famous names to overlooked pioneers and modern trailblazers.
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The Big Hop: The Forgotten Race to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1919, just weeks after the end of the First World War, a handful of airmen who had survived the skies over the Western Front signed up for what many believed was impossible: the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The challenge came with a £10,000 prize from Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail and one of aviation's earliest and most relentless champions. Four teams of pilots, navigators, and aircraft manufacturers raced to Newfoundland to attempt the 2,000-mil
The Race for Timbuktu: The Hunt for Africa's City of Gold (opens the original)
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For centuries, Timbuktu was Europe's idea of the unreachable place - an African El Dorado where the roofs were said to be made of gold. The myth had roots in something real: in 1325 the Malian emperor Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with so much gold that his spending in Cairo devalued the Egyptian currency for years afterwards. By the time European explorers went looking, the city had been in decline for two centuries. Nobody in Europe knew that, because nobody had been there and come back. In th
Denali 1967: The Worst Climbing Disaster in North American History (Part 2) (opens the original)
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Seven men were somewhere on the upper slopes of Denali and nobody had heard from them since a single radio call from the summit. Five survivors were pinned in their tents three thousand feet below, so battered by the wind that four hours of climbing gained them only a few hundred yards. In 1967 there was no rescue service on the mountain, no aircraft that could fly in those conditions, and no way for anyone to go up and look. Which is how a group of climbers with no connection to the expedition
Denali 1967: The Worst Climbing Disaster in North American History (Part 1) (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1967, twelve men set out to climb Denali - then officially Mount McKinley - the highest mountain in North America. Nine of them had been recruited by a 24-year-old graduate student named Joe Wilcox, and most had never met before they arrived in Alaska. The other three were a Colorado team who had lost their fourth man in a car accident weeks earlier, and who were forced to merge with Wilcox's group days before the climb because park rules required a minimum of four. Twelve stran
The Last Tourist in Russia (opens the original)
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In February 2022, Charlie Walker flew to Russia to travel 600 miles alone across Arctic Siberia. Five days later, Russia invaded Ukraine. He had a narrow window to get out - and chose to stay and finish the trip, becoming very possibly the last Western tourist in Russia. Walker set off on foot from the coldest inhabited place on earth, hiking frozen rivers and ice roads in temperatures down to minus 50. The expedition itself mostly went to plan. The problem was everything around it. With indepen
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