• Dangerous Minds with Ed Stafford

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Dangerous Minds with Ed Stafford

By: OffScript
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  • Is adventure travel an addictive escape or a vessel for self development? What makes people leave those that they love to take huge risks? Does showing vulnerability make you weak? In these very uncertain times - how do we become strong individuals who can contribute to society? Adventurer and Guinness World record holder Ed Stafford will explore this very concept with a different guest each week. Guests include the remarkable Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Ness Knight and Dwayne Fields.

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Episodes
  • Dangerous Minds - Episode 8: Leo Houlding
    Sep 13 2020
    Leo Houlding is a world-class climber and adventurer, veteran of a score of epic ascents including Everest. But he specialises in free climbing – i.e. without ropes – and helped pioneer para-alpinism – climbing up and flying down. In the last episode of the current series, Ed talks to Leo about what fostered the desire for risk and how difficult it is to rationalise.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Dangerous Minds - Episode 7: Geoff Holt
    Sep 6 2020
    Geoff Holt MBE had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean 3 times and sailed over 30,000 nautical miles, before breaking his neck in 1984. Geoff has been a quadriplegic ever since and became the first disabled yachtsman to single-handedly sail around Great Britain in 2007. He talks to Ed Stafford about his remarkable story, overcoming physical and mental obstacles along the way.

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    51 mins
  • Dangerous Minds - Episode 6: Ella Al-Shamahi
    Aug 30 2020
    Ella Al-Shamahi is a National Geographic explorer, paleoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist and stand-up comic. Ella also hosted Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors and Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick? on BBC Two and in this episode of Dangerous Minds, she discusses nature, evolution and her own battles with depression.

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    1 hr and 4 mins

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