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Whiskey and a Map: True Stories of Adventure.

Michael J Reinhart

These are the true stories of adventure as told by those who lived them.This adventure story podcast brings you an up close and personal conversation with people who travel the world and live extraordinary livesTravel with us to the faraway jungles of the Amazon, the Himalayan mountains, deep water ship wrecks, and people and places lost in time. Many an adventure has started with a map and a glass of whiskey. May this podcast inspire you to seek you own.Hosted by Michael J.

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70:21

James Clash: To the Edge of Space, Into the eye of a...

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2025/10/23

Send us a text Jim Clash covers extreme adventure and classic rock. Over three decades of writing for Forbes, Clash, who holds an MBA from Columbia University, has penned four books, most recently Amazon bestseller “Amplified,” about ‘60s music. His first-person stories include supersonic flights in eight separate aircraft pulling up to 9 Gs and flying to 84,000 ft; driving a Bugatti at 253 mph and Indy cars at 200 mph; expeditions to the North and South Poles; summiting the Matterhorn and 23...

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Mario Rigby: Trekking Across Africa and Expedition...

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2025/09/29

Send us a text In 2015, Rigby embarked on his epic “Crossing Africa” expedition, traveling from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt entirely by foot and kayak. Over two years, he covered more than 12,000 kilometers across 8 African countries. Along the way, he learns of its people, languages and customs coming away with a deep understanding of the reach cultural diversity of continent. He then went on to kayak the length of Lake Ontario, bicycle from coast to coast across Cana...

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59:26

Driving across the African continent in an old Land...

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2024/12/18

Send us a textDriving across the African continent in an old Land Rover. Safari guide in the remote Zambezi valley. Join us for part two as we hear more tales of classic African adventure from Rob Fynn.Rob Fynn's family goes back in Africa six generations. He was brought up in Rhodesia and then at age 18 he left to join the Royal Navy. He was asked to leave when UDI was declared and all Rhodesians in the British armed forces were now regarded as potential rebels.After pursui...

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Driving across the African continent in an old Land...

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2024/11/16

Send us a textDriving across the African continent in an old Land Rover. Safari guide in the remote Zambezi valley. Join us as we hear tales of classic African adventure from Rob Fynn.Rob Fynn's family goes back in Africa six generations. He was brought up in Rhodesia and then at age 18 he left to join the Royal Navy. He was asked to leave when UDI was declared and all Rhodesians in the British armed forces were now regarded as potential rebels.After pursuing his engineering...

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Behind Enemy Lines: War correspondent Jacques...

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2024/09/12

Send us a textIn this episode of Whiskey and a Map, award winning journalist and author Jacques Leslie recounts his years as a war correspondent covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and the Indira Gandhi crises in India. At the age of 24, Jacques Leslie became a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent, and covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia for two years. For that work he won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for foreign correspondence and an Overseas Press Club c...

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Afghan warlords, Somali pirates, crossing the world's...

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2024/08/24

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we are joined by Danish adventurer, documentarian and speaker Rasmus Krath. Rasmus ventures solo into some of the most dangerous places on the planet armed only with camera and the ability to connect with and gain the trust of the people who live there. His adventures have taken him into active war zones of Afghanistan to meet local warlords and across lawless Somalia to interview pirates. His latest expedition takes him across the most dan...

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70:26

Facing down grizzly bears, charging mountain...

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2024/07/25

Send us a Text Message.Facing down grizzly bears, charging mountain gorillas and a solo cross country ski crossing of Yellowstone in winter, are just some of the adventures award winning wildlife photographer Tom Murphy shares with us in this episode of Whiskey and a Map.Tom uses his photography to illustrate his passion for the remaining wild places on our earth. Yellowstone National Park’s wildlife and landscapes are the special focus of Tom’s work. A talented naturalist and gifted lecturer...

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Solo Journey across Russia and the Former States of...

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2024/06/18

In this episode, Katie Aune takes on a adventure far off the typical tourist track, from riding the Trans-Siberian Railway across Russia and taking a cargo ferry from Ukraine to Georgia, to volunteering in Tajikistan and camping in the desert of Turkmenistan. Katie is a recovering tax attorney who has worked in nonprofit and higher ed fundraising for more than a decade while also dabbling in travel blogging and writing. Born and raised in Minnesota, Katie is currently based in Washingto...

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53:14

Into the world’s most dangerous jungle on a counter...

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2024/05/21

Described by some as a never ending green hell and by others as the most beautiful bio diverse place on the planet, the jungles of Panama attract the best and the worst of mankind. In this episode, conservation photographer Joshua Asel recounts his adventure into the jungles of Panama’s Darian gap to embed with the indigenous tribal rangers and support their efforts to counter large scale poaching of wildlife and timber on their lands. Joshua is an award-winning wildlife conservat...

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46:31

Deep, Dark and Deadly: Stories of Extreme Cave...

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2024/04/15

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Ancient rituals and first ascents: Travels in the...

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2024/04/04

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Witchcraft and Demon Possession on Africa's Zambezi...

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2024/03/16

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George Kourounis: Exploring the Most Extreme Places...

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2024/03/14

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Brandon Wilson: Tibet, the Templars' Trail, a ghostly...

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2024/02/28

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Cyril Derreumaux: Solo kayaking across the Pacific...

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2024/02/13

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Cyril Derreumaux: Solo kayaking across the Pacific...

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2024/01/31

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Yossi Ghinsberg: Surviving Alone in the Amazon,...

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2024/01/11

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Yossi Ghinsberg: Surviving Alone in the Amazon,...

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2023/12/14

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Leif Whittaker: Big wall diving in the Pacific,...

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2023/10/10

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83:02

West Hansen: The Amazon from Source to Sea Part Two

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2023/09/15

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