Campfire stories & conversations told by host Warren Green and featuring guests from the international sustainable travel scene: philanthropists, conservationists, lodge managers and safari guides. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/support
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Reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro .. on her hands
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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 losi…
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Kilimanjaro with Mandy Horvath, part one: Getting there
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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…
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Reduce your Stress .... mm try tracking a buffalo!
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"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 ho…
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This is a gentle monologue about the wilderness and what it means for us as a species. I hope thought provoking... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/support
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Conversations across the African Continent`
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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'…
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78 Degrees beyond my wildest dreams
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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 …
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Karen "Lofty" Loftus talking Women's Adventure Travel
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Standup comedian, feminist playwright, journalist and adventurer "Lofty" talks about life leading up to her latest venture WAT. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/support…
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Ep 14. Looking for Gavin Johnson Part 2. Final.
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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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-gree…
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When I missed my flight I found myself on the step of Livingston International airport contemplating my next move. It was something of a misadventure along the course of the mighty Zambezi River. I was supposed to be chasing giant tiger fish from the banks of the rapidly flowing Zambezi... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com…
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Getting up when you're down.. A fascinating conversation with Mandy Horvath
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I found this conversation and podcast extremely challenging. Covid-19 has separated me from my guests, the internet strength has meant we talk over Skype with the camera off, which keeps a distance between us. This conversation was different; it was beyond me, it was difficult to digest, I was stunned for words, I had a good internet connection so …
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Mandy Horvath.. coming to you next week. June 23
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This is a quick insight into my conversation with Mandy Horvath, which will be published next week. An amazing woman, whose story will inspire you and this is a time when we all need to see a light at the end of the tunnel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcas…
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Gorongosa Restoration, part four of four... I hope there are more
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Mat Jordan went to Mozambique and swore he wouldn't be back again....Today he's an executive on the Gorongosa project working alongside Tesst Malunga, Larissa Sousa and many others hand picked and nurtured by the soft spoken, visionary Greg Carr. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this …
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Gorongosa story continued with Tesst Malunga
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This is the third in the four part series covering Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. I was joined by the Activities Manager Tesst Malunga for a campfire conversation, which started out with a little dive into his youthful exploits in Zimbabwe, to his current affairs plotting planning the guests safari experience at Gorongosa and touched on a f…
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Gorongosa Story continues with Larissa Sousa
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When I first learnt about the restoration of Gorongosa following nearly thirty years of bloody war I naively assumed it was simply about bringing recently extinct animals to the park. These conversations uncover the many layers restoration that is taking place to rebuild Mozambique's jewel. Today I talk to Larissa who is addressing some fundamental…
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Gorongosa is a remarkable National Park in Mozambique. It was almost entirely destroyed by war, much of its game wiped out and flora destroyed. This series of four conversations look deeper into the park and the effects its restoration is having on the greater community of 200 000 people that surround the park. The first in the series is a lively c…
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Victoria Falls.. not just a magnificent display of thousands of gallons of water cascading over a precipice down into a dramatic gorge, but also home to the White family who have not only pioneered wild water and safari activities in Zimbabwe, but also rearing and "re-wilding" elephants...Warren Green chats with COO Craig White. --- Send in a voice…
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Talking about "Braai" with restauratuer Richard Key
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Africa is so well suited to diets like The Atkins and Keto as its carnivorous population simply can't resist the opportunity of grilling half the farm yard in an afternoon... Join me for a little banter around the Braai.. or as you'll find out the not-so-unique BBQ.. African style.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show…
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A light conversation with Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve's Jacques Smit
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Coming from the rich fertile soils of South Africa's premier wine and fruit growing region, now the Marketing Director of arguably the most renowned and successful Private Game Reserve in the world, Jacques Smit shares a little of his life with Warren on this episode of The Green Piece. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po…
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Talking Photography with Andy Biggs
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Award winning & world class photographer, photographic safari guide, Andy Biggs talks travel and photography with Warren Green --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/support
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Two veterans of the travel and safari industry swop tales around the campfire.
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Michel Girardin has influenced and mentored many in the travel industry. He’s a figure known and recognized from Tokyo to Timbuktu joins old friend and protégé Warren Green for a conversation...--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warr…
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A campfire conversation with the director of Rhino Conservation Botswana. Map Ives shares experiences with Warren--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/warren-green3/support
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Across Kenya in Search of superlatives
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I traveled across Kenya early in 2000 with my colleague Rajiv Chada, then the GM of Across Africa Safaris, scouting for ideas and inclusions to feature in a rethought Kenyan Safari. This is an excerpt of our adventure that features being isolated in the Sand River while looking for a sublime experience.... --- Send in a voice message: https://podca…
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