I've been travelling about two and a half months by this stage, already been through China and Tibet, interrogated,

near-miss with an avalanche, stuck in this jungle, got collared by some undercover police in China, like all kinds of crazy things,

ended up in a car with a drug runner in Kyrgyzstan. I could go on and on.

It was just addictive right from the start.

Across the street from me, I remember watching a sniper on a rooftop. Petrol station was blown up. His own

dad chopped his arm off with a machete. Seven part rangers were killed in that village by the militia group.

Just around the time ISIS was still going, you've got minefields, which were left by Saddam Hussein

in the 80s. And we're talking East Africa here, aren't me? East Africa, yeah. Most famous of recent years

for his piracy.

Turned out he was from FI-5.

Probably not told on a podcast before.

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Olli France is an adrenaline junkie that has travelled to the most hostile and remote regions

on the planet.

From the Congo to North Korea, his travels saw him come across ex-KGB, ISIS and even Somali

pirates. He also reveals how he was arrested

for narcotics and interrogated by the military dictatorship. This is the eventful life of Mr.

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