Walking the Length of Africa with Mario Rigby

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Mario Rigby is a serial adventurer who pushes himself to his limit out in nature. He's kayaked across Lake Ontario, biked across the entire country of Canada and walked the length of Africa. No matter what kind of expedition he's on, the motivation remains the same, to witness the good in humanity and challenge others to see it as well.

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0:25.0	You know I started reflecting on my life and that's when I started to realize that you know it's the life of discovery of exploration of adventure that I really gravitate towards and that's where I always feel good, you know, like being a child back in Turks and Caicos, I used being outdoors as a way to have therapy in a sense. So why can't I recreate that in Toronto as an adult. Mario Rigby is a serial adventurer who pushes himself to his limit out in nature.
0:40.0	He's kayaked across Lake Ontario, biked across the entire country of Canada, and walked the length of Africa.
0:47.0	For Mario, one idea has led to another and another, which has turned into a full-time career as an explorer.
0:55.0	He's been featured on CBC, CNN, and countless other news publications.
1:00.0	No matter what kind of expedition he's on, the motivation remains the same.
1:05.2	To witness the good and humanity and challenge others to see it as well.
1:09.8	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living an REI co-op studios production brought to
1:16.4	you by Capital One.
1:21.0	Mario Rigby has made a life going on what he calls human-powered adventures,
1:25.8	traveling extraordinary distances by foot, boat, or bike.
1:30.3	His trips have taken days, months, even years to complete.
1:34.0	The expedition that started it all was his longest and hardest,
1:38.0	a 7,500 mile walk from the southern tip of South Africa,
1:42.0	all the way up to Egypt.
1:45.2	He did that trek when he was 30 years old, but Mario has always been an adventurer at heart.
1:51.3	When he was young, he spent a lot of time exploring the beaches and islands of his home in Turks and Caicos.
2:00.0	Mario Rigby, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
2:03.5	You've probably done at least the top 10 Wildest things
2:07.1	we've ever heard of.
2:08.5	Yeah, it's been Wild.
2:09.5	Thanks for having me on the podcast.
2:11.2	Really love to share my story.
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