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TV and Film
I have been involved both as talent (ie the athlete) or on the production side of TV and Filmmaking for over 20 film projects. From commercials for Ford to full length features for Red Bull Media House, chasing absurd dreams and creating content often go hand-in-hand.
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Speaking
I've been fortunate to live a ridiculously adventure-filled life. Through my expeditions and all the years of captaining a sailboat around the world I've built up a proper Irish-style arsenal of stories and love to share them with small to large audiences.
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Expeditions
If I'm not planning something rad that has never been done I start getting pretty antsy. It's actually my job to come up with absurd ideas and pull them off. From racing across the Alps by paraglider and foot to flying across the Canadian Rockies, to sailing short handed around Cape Horn, if it sounds wild, I'm in!
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Podcasts and Writing
I host a podcast (The Cloudbase Mayhem podcast) dedicated to free flight where I interview the best pilots in the world to glean out what makes them great and contribute regularly to magazines like Cross Country and Parapente and many others.
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The Latest Mayhem
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Episode 176- Hell Hath No Fury
In 2009 your host was about half way through a second circumnavigation when he was suddenly confronted with a rather daunting task- sailing from Bali to Langkawi, Malaysia (1500 nautical miles) across the two busiest shipping lanes on Earth (the Java Sea and the Malacca Straits) solo. This is an area of the world that is not only like a freeway on the ocean with enormous ships and fishing vessels moving at high speed it’s also famous for the worst electrical storms on the planet.
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Episode 175- Behind the scenes of the 22′ X-Pyr
The 2022 X-Pyr was substantially longer than any of the previous races with a big tweak to the route, and the weather this year was downright brutal. You had to be an animal on the ground, but it was in the air, and often in really scary air that we saw the true aviators make their moves. Manu was Pierre’s weather and route-strategy ace and not only did their team hold in up at the front for the entire race, Pierre was the only bird in the sky late on day 6 (when the forecast called for winds in excess of 70 km/hr) when he took a commanding lead. But once again Chrigel pulled his magic and nipped both Pierre and Maxime, who looked like he had the win in the bag right at the last moment.
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Episode 174- Dreaming Big, Going Bigger in Pakistan with Aaron Durogati
Aaron Durogati is no stranger to thinking and doing big, but this time he pulled off what can only be described as outrageous. He and a few friends spent 40 days in the Himalaya in Pakistan to pursue mountaineering “combos”. They used their paragliders to take off from lower elevations, put their touring gear (ie skis) on in the air, stuff it in somewhere high, often above 5,000 meters and then ski and fly down. They spent many nights at altitude acclimatizing; they got stuck with heinous walks out on dangerous glaciers; Aaron had a frightening crash; he got so sick he thought he was going to die…and then he somehow managed to fly at 285 km FAI triangle across the biggest terrain in the world…
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