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The Wild Podcast is a show about the outdoors. In each episode, we talk with world class adventurers, athletes, scientists, and creatives to unpack the untold stories of high performers, modern explorers, and our wild places.

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#51 Eleanor Arnst&Katie Wright - Ultra Running New Zealand's Wildest Trails from 2021-05-19T14:00

Eleanor Arnst and Katie Wright are two New Zealand based ultra running legends. Having recently completed the first known non-stop traverse of the Ruahine Range they speak to Andy about all thin...

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Special Episode - Leaked Options Development Group Draft Recommendations from 2021-05-08T08:00

In this breaking news episode we speak to an anonymous Conversation Board member about the Department of Conservation's Options Development Group. We talk about the group's controvers...

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#50 Alistair Matthew - Pioneering Adventure Tourism in South America from 2021-04-07T09:00

In 1998 Alistair Matthew found himself with a bike high up in the Bolivian Andes. He explored the mountains surrounding La Paz and found a ride he knew people would love - The World’s Most Dang...

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#49 Ray Salisbury - The History Behind Mt Arthur from 2021-02-15T15:00

Ray is a tramper, photographer and graphic designer based in Nelson, New Zealand. His relatives were the first europeans to find and explore the Tableland area behind Mt Arthur in what is now Ka...

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#48 Nathan Dahlberg - Hiking, Biking and Mountaineering in Remote Places. from 2021-01-13T16:00

Nathan Dahlberg is a mountaineer, explorer and former professional mountain biker. In this episode Nathan talks about what it's like to ride in the Tour De France and his latest adventures ...

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#47 Robert Mads Anderson - Nine Lives on Mt Everest from 2020-12-28T15:00

Robert Mads Andreson is a mountaineer, author and former managing director in the advertising industry. In this episode we talk to Robert about his latest book Nine Lives which details his adven...

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#46 Dick Vietch - Offshore Islands and Conservation Stories from 2020-12-02T00:00

Dick Vietch is one of New Zealand’s conservation icons. In this episode Andy and Dick chat about everything from saving the South Island Saddleback from extinction on Big South Cape Island in 19...

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#45 Dave Shaw - Hunting Tales from the New Zealand Backcountry from 2020-11-18T10:00

Dave Shaw is the founder, creator and cameraman behind The Hunters Club TV show and he's just released a new book called 'Off...

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#44 David Cary - Reimagining the Tramping Pack from 2020-11-04T10:00

David Cary is the founder of Empty Packs, a new brand of ultra-light tramping packs custom-made in a shed in Te Anau, New Zealand.

David's story is similar to many of the great out...

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#43 Alec Milne - Protecting the Cobb Valley&Searching for Ghosts from 2020-10-21T20:00

Alec Milne is a conservationist and amateur ornithologist (a person who studies birds).

He's is a member of Friends of Cobb, a conservation group that does pest control and trappin...

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Election 2020 Special: Q&A on Conservation and the Environment from 2020-10-07T21:00

In this special Election 2020 episode of The Wild Podcast, we asked the five political parties that are currently sitting in parliament - Labour, National, The Green Party, ACT, and NZ First - t...

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#42 Jonathan Carson - The River that Became a Legal Person from 2020-09-30T20:00

The Whanganui River in New Zealand is the first river in the world to be granted the status of a legal person. But what does that really mean?

In this episode, Andy talks with Jonny abo...

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#41 Levi Harrison - Living As A Modern Day Hunter-Gatherer from 2020-09-16T10:00

Levi Harrison is a modern day hunter-gatherer who lives in a tipi in the forest somewhere at the Top of the South Island of New Zealand.

After living most of his life in a big city, Le...

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#40 Gavin Lang - Mastering the Mountains of the Mind from 2020-09-02T18:00

Gavin Lang is a New Zealand mountain guide and photographer who combines self-development with nature and adventure to help people overcome the mountains within themselves.

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#39 Dylan Van Winkel - Unearthing the World of Reptiles in New Zealand from 2020-08-19T10:00

Dylan van Winkel is a renowned Kiwi wildlife ecologist and herpetologist, which means he studies reptiles and amphibians like lizards and frogs. He literally wr...

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#38 Crystal Brindle - Bridging the Gap Between People and Nature from 2020-08-05T06:00

Crystal Brindle is a nature photographer, a community ranger at the Department of Conservation in New Zealand, and a keen adventurer.

She grew up in the United States where she worked for ...

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#37 Kate Uwins - A Skinny Dipper's Guide to New Zealand from 2020-07-22T08:00

Kate Uwins aka Naked Kate is a skinny dipping enthusiast and a body positivity advocate who's working on New Zealand's first guidebook for skinny dipping, called Newd Zealand.
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#36 Billy Stairmand - Surfing the Wild Waves of Life from 2020-07-08T10:00

Billy Stairmind is a record-holding 7x New Zealand surfing champion, future Olympian, and a competitor on the World Qualifying Series.

Growing up in Raglan, the surfing capital of New Z...
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#35 Geoff Reid - A Guardian of the Natural World from 2020-06-24T18:00

Geoff Reid is a passionate environmentalist, talented photographer and reluctant social media influencer from New Zealand.

He uses activism and storytelling to campaign for fresh water,...
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#34 The Wild Twins (Amber&Serena Shine) - Making Every Moment Count from 2020-06-10T10:00

Amber and Serena Shine are The Wild Twins and they well and truly live up to their name. They hunt, fish, dive, hike, climb, snowboard, skydive... They've climbed Mount Cook, attempted Dena...
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#33 Chloe Phillips-Harris - Embracing Fear in Extreme Environments from 2020-05-27T10:00

Chloe Phillips-Harris is a New Zealand explorer and expedition leader. The unique thing about Chloe is that her adventures around the world almost always involve animals. She completed the world...
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#32 Philip Temple - The Last True Explorer from 2020-05-13T10:00

Philip Temple is a living legend and one of New Zealand's great explorers. He made the first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramide in West New Guinea (now known as Papua) back in 1962, which has...
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#31 Guy Cotter - Life&Death on Mount Everest from 2020-04-29T10:00

Guy Cotter is one of New Zealand's most accomplished mountaineers, having summited Mount Everest five times and led many other expeditions on the world's highest mountain. He has compl...
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#30 Sam Smoothy - Risk&Reward Skiing the World's Gnarliest Mountains from 2020-04-15T10:00

Sam Smoothy is a New Zealand professional freeride skier and filmmaker who pushes the limits of what's possible on some of the world's most threatening mountains. Sam competed on the F...
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#29 Josh James - Becoming The Kiwi Bushman from 2020-03-30T10:00

Josh James the Kiwi Bushman has forged a career hunting, trapping and fishing all over the world. From humble beginnings as a raft guide and possum trapper Josh has built an audience that eagerl...
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#28 Marco de Kretser - Creating Music From the Sounds of Antarctica from 2020-03-18T10:00

Marco de Kretser is a 19-year-old music producer, photographer, environmental science student and adventurer. In March 2019, he went on an expedition to Antarctica as an from 2020-03-04T10:00
Elina Osborne is a New Zealand filmmaker who hiked 4270 kilometres from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail over 4.5 incredible months. The PCT was her first thru-hike. She did it to pro...
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#26 Dan Clearwater - Exploring Between the Cracks: Canyoning in New Zealand from 2020-01-22T10:00

Canyoning is one of the world's fastest growing adventure sports, and Dan Clearwater is one of New Zealand's true canyoning pioneers. Dan literally wrote the book on canyoning in New Z...
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#25 Lisa Tamati - Ultra-Running&The Art of Overcoming Adversity from 2020-01-08T15:00

Lisa Tamati is arguably New Zealand's most well known ultra runner, clocking up over 70,000km, racing everywhere from the Himalayas to the Outback of Australia. In addition to ultra running...
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#24 Mat Goodman - Capturing the Intimate Lives of Wild Animals from 2019-12-25T10:00

Mat Goodman is pretty much the David Attenborough of New Zealand (our words, not his), except he's behind the camera not in front of it. He's been all over the world making wildlife do...
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#23 Isobel Ewing - Escaping the 9-5&Surviving The Silk Road from 2019-12-11T11:00

Isobel Ewing is a New Zealand journalist and all-round adventurer, who recently cycled part of The Silk Road with her brother, Jack. It was a 2500-kilometre, 49-day journey along the ancient tra...
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#22 Will Trubridge - Diving Into the Depths of Body&Mind from 2019-11-27T11:00

Will Trubridge is a 7x world champion freediver from New Zealand who has 18 world records to his name, including the record for the deepest unassisted free dive (102 metres). He's an incred...
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#21 Ben Paris - New Zealand's Very Own Batman from 2019-11-13T20:00

Ben Paris aka New Zealand Batman is a real life conservation superhero. By day he works at Auckland Zoo, but come night he is New Zealand's greatest champion for our only native land mammal...
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#20 Shaun Barnett - Choosing the Best 100 Day Walks in New Zealand from 2019-10-30T21:00

Shaun Barnett is an outdoors author, editor and photographer. Based in Wellington, he has written over 900 articles for major magazines and newspapers, along with eight books, including his most...
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#19 Lydia Bradey - The First Woman to Summit Everest Without Oxygen from 2019-10-16T12:00

Lydia is one of New Zealand's great mountaineers and climbers. She's the first woman to summit Mount Everest without oxygen, back in the 1988. She's since gone on to climb Everest...
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#18 Richard Johnson - Chasing Adventure in the Most Unforgiving Places from 2019-09-28T12:00

Richard Johnson epitomises what it means to be an adventurer. He sets his sights on epic feats all around the world and goes to extraordinary lengths to achieve them. In this episode, Andy talks...
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#17 Ben Brown - The Life of New Zealand's First Red Bull Athlete from 2019-09-18T12:00

Ben Brown is considered a New Zealand whitewater legend. He's completed at least nine first descents of rivers or rapids in nine different countries. He became the first Kiwi to be given a ...
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#16 Andy McDonald&Jonny Carson - Behind the Scenes of The Wild Podcast from 2019-09-04T11:00

This episode is a bit different in that we (Andy and Jonny) decided to chat to one another about why we started the podcast, some of our own adventure stories, and a bit about our personal lives...
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#15 Kieran Mckay - Death in the Outdoors&Learning from Tragedy from 2019-08-21T12:00

What happens when tragedy strikes in the outdoors? It's a possibility we all have to reckon with when we head out on an adventure. But few of us ever experience it.

In this specia...
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#14 Naomi Arnold - Missing Trampers&Journalism in the Outdoors from 2019-08-07T16:00

What happens when trampers disappear without a trace? Naomi Arnold is a journalist and writer based in Nelson, New Zealand, who has covered several high profile missing tramper cases. We talk ab...
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#13 Brando'Wildboy'Yelavich - Expedition Dust: Crossing the Red Centre on Bike from 2019-07-24T12:00

Brando 'Wildboy' Yelavich is back, this time from "the middle of nowhere" at the half-way point of Expedition Dust, his epic 5000km bicycle adventure through outback Australi...
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#12 Warren Bates - What Doesn't Kill You: The Story of GODZone from 2019-07-10T12:00

Warren Bates is a former world champion adventurer racer and the co-founder and event director of GODZone, the world's largest expedition adventure race held in New Zealand every year. In t...
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#11 Dr Mike Joy - Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis from 2019-06-26T12:00

Dr Mike Joy is an award-winning freshwater ecologist. He's one of the few scientists in New Zealand who is outspoken on environmental issues, particularly the impact of agriculture on fresh...
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#10 Robert Bruce - Finding Yourself&Creating Community in the Outdoors from 2019-06-12T16:00

Robert Bruce is the founder of Got To Get Out, a social enterprise adventure group that aims to get more people into the outdoors, and a 2019 New Zealander of the Year semi-finalist. Over the pa...
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#9 Miriam Lancewood - Living in the Wilderness for Nine Years from 2019-05-29T12:00

Miriam Lancewood is a true wild woman. She and her partner Peter left civilisation behind in 2010 and went to live in the wilderness in New Zealand. She learned to hunt for their feed and experi...
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#8 Craig Potton - Can Wildlife Photography Save the World? from 2019-05-14T13:00

Craig Potton is New Zealand's best known landscape photographer and an ardent conservationist. In 2013, he received the Insignia of a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his servic...
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#7 Brando Yelavich - Becoming'Wildboy'&The Pursuit of Happiness from 2019-05-01T12:00

Brando 'Wildboy' Yelavich is an explorer and the first person to circumnavigate the coastline of New Zealand on foot. He's also spent 35 days alone on Stewart Island, traversed th...
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#6 Kieran Mckay - Exploring New Zealand's Uncharted Underworld from 2019-04-15T22:00

Kieran Mckay is one of New Zealand's greatest living explorers. He's at the forefront of caving in New Zealand and has been involved in many of the country's most important underg...
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#5 Dulkara Martig - Finding Mental Wellbeing in the Wildest Places from 2019-04-03T17:00

In this episode we chat with explorer, adventurer and outdoors educator Dulkara Martig. We talk about travelling the world as a nomad, her epic traverse of the Southern Alps in New Zealand, gour...
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#4 Ben Logan - Survival, Resilience&Becoming the Best Version of Yourself from 2019-03-20T17:00

Ben Logan a survivalist, bushcraft expert and outdoors specialist. We covered a lot of ground from survival tactics, to cold shock therapy and bathing in glacier lakes, to what it means to a goo...
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#3 Kyle"Barekiwi"Mulinder - Keeping it Real in the Wild World of Social Media from 2019-03-04T18:00

Kyle Mulinder aka Barekiwi is a New Zealand-based photographer, social media influencer (although he'd cringe to hear us say that), and sea kayak guide in Abel Tasman National Park. We talk...
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#2 Neil Silverwood - Documenting Our Changing World from 2019-02-18T18:00

Neil Silverwood is a New Zealand caver, adventurer and award-winning photographer whose assignments have taken him to the ends of the earth. In this episode we cover his uncanny introduction to ...
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#1 Hollie Woodhouse - Breaking Through the Comfort Zone from 2019-02-03T18:00

Hollie Woodhouse is an adventurer, athlete, creative who has completed a 560 kilometre traverse of the Greenland icecap, ultra-marathons in the Amazon Jungle and Sahara Desert and is currently i...
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#1 Hollie Woodhouse - Breaking Through the Comfort Zone from 2019-02-03T18:00

Hollie Woodhouse is an adventurer, athlete, creative who has completed a 560 kilometre traverse of the Greenland icecap, ultra-marathons in the Amazon Jungle and Sahara Desert and is currently i...
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