The Green Piece Podcast By Warren Green

Warren Green
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Campfire stories & conversations told by host Warren Green and featuring guests from the international sustainable travel scene: philanthropists, conservationists, lodge managers and safari guides.

  1. 09/10/2021

    Reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro .. on her hands

    Mandy Horvath shares the challenges of summiting Africa's tallest mountain, Kilimanjaro at 19 341 feet. Many alpinists have beaten the thin air to reach the summit of this iconic mountain, but Mandy is the first woman to do it on her hands; she's a double amputee following a near death accident in her 21st year where she was smashed by a train losing her legs to save her life...

    54 min

  2. 09/10/2021

    Kilimanjaro with Mandy Horvath, part one: Getting there

    Double amputee, recovering alcoholic, outdoors woman, adventurer and quite simply one strong willed youngster, Mandy Horvath, tells the tale of climbing Kilimanjaro Africa's tallest mountain at 19 341 feet. She's earned the right to have the landscape tattooed on her flesh, she's already got its grit grain and dust imbedded in her hands and fingers. Oh and by the way, she scaled the mountain unaided and on her hands achieving an Guinness records first.. This is a two part podcast so look out for the second that follows.

    37 min

  3. 01/23/2021

    Reduce your Stress .... mm try tracking a buffalo!

    "Reduce your stress - track a buffalo" was the heading used by Business Day's Investment Editor, Mervyn Harris, who used it to headline the article the wrote following his experience with me on The Ranger Training Course for Executives. It's a cool story,  which I recount on this podcast. Mervyn published his article on Tuesday October 6th 1992! I hope you enjoy it too.. dont forget to subscribe, give me the thumbs up, etc.

    44 min

  4. 12/02/2020

    What about the wilderness?

    This is a gentle monologue about the wilderness and what it means for us as a species. I hope thought provoking...

    43 min

  5. 09/30/2020

    Conversations across the African Continent`

    Sometimes you get lucky when you engage a group of guides, specialists in their fields, in a conversation. This is a conversation with guides from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia, but not just from exotic countries rather from the most iconic areas of those destinations.. the Serengeti, Victoria Falls and the mighty Zambezi River, Botswana's Okavango Delta and the remote and seclude South Luangwa Valley of Zambia.

    1h 31m

  6. 08/20/2020

    78 Degrees beyond my wildest dreams

    August 21 2017 most of America saw the total solar eclipse race across the country from the Pacific coast over the Atlantic shore.. That was three years ago, which today triggers memories of another epic eclipse that I witnessed in March 2015. This is an account of the drama that I experienced North of latitude 78, where it's cold, damned cold and wild, wild beyond my wildest dreams...!

    25 min

  7. 07/28/2020

    Karen "Lofty" Loftus talking Women's Adventure Travel

    Standup comedian, feminist playwright, journalist and adventurer "Lofty" talks about life leading up to her latest venture WAT.

    1h 31m

  8. 07/14/2020

    Ep 14. Looking for Gavin Johnson Part 2. Final.

    After missing my flight to an airstrip up near Sioma in Zambia I had to make a plan to get there by road.. a short story of an adventure across western Zambia in search of Gavin Johnson.

    58 min
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Campfire stories & conversations told by host Warren Green and featuring guests from the international sustainable travel scene: philanthropists, conservationists, lodge managers and safari guides.

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