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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 412: How to Do More With the Life You Have | Alastair Humphreys, Grand Adventures

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, host Ginny Yurich sits down with National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Alastair Humphreys to explore how to break free from the constraints of everyday life and embrace adventure in meaningful ways. Alastair shares his insights into the barriers that often stand in our way—like money and time—and dismantles the myths that adventures have to be expensive or extravagant. From setting up a simple adventure fund to savoring the benefits of traveling cheap, Alastair highlights how small, intentional steps can lead to extraordinary experiences. Whether it’s camping close to home or embarking on a low-budget global trek, he emphasizes that adventure is more about mindset than resources. The conversation is packed with wisdom, humor, and practical advice for anyone looking to enrich their life. Alastair reflects on how cheap adventures offer a unique perspective on gratitude, the fleeting nature of time, and the richness of life’s experiences. With anecdotes of walking, biking, and even wild camping, he invites listeners to think differently about what’s possible with what they already have. This episode is a powerful reminder that life is ticking by, and the best adventures are often within reach when we choose to do more with the life we’ve been given. ** Get your copy of Grand Adventures here Get your copy of MicroAdventures here Learn more about Alastair here ** Download your free 1000 Hours Outside tracker here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/trackers Find everything you need to kick off your 1000 Hours Outside Journey here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/allthethings Order of copy of Ginny's newest book, Until the Streetlights Come On here >> https://amzn.to/3RXjBlN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thanks for doing this. My pleasure. I finally read Grand Adventures and I love it.

0:35.9

Thank you. It's been interesting for me to think about our chat because this is, you know, I've been

0:40.7

doing much more small stuff for a long, long time.

0:43.7

So this was a trip down memory lane for me.

0:45.7

Yeah.

0:46.2

And it was actually really nice to look at this book because normally when I look at stuff

0:50.0

from my youth, I'm embarrassed and think, oh, that's terrible.

0:52.7

But I thought this book was great.

0:54.6

He says modestly. Oh, it is a great book. Yeah, I was really pleased. Well, we're in it. Let's keep

1:00.8

going. I was thinking, I looked back because I was like, this guy's probably sick of me.

1:07.5

No, I really genuinely enjoy our chat. I feel like you're my friend in

1:11.5

North America who I've never met. You come and we chat together in my shed. I enjoy it. It's nice.

1:17.4

I mean, we've done a lot of them. What's been interesting to me, Alistair, is that you've opened my

1:21.8

world to a bunch of different types of books that are out there and just different concepts.

1:26.6

And we originally talked about

1:28.2

microadventures, which completely changed my life. I mean, I was really grasping onto these

1:34.3

longer adventures that we were having and weren't able to anymore as our kids got older.

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