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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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#208 A Love Affair with Flying- Phil Hystek
“Flat out Phil” Hystek has been instructing free flight in Australia longer than anyone. It began with a fascination of hang gliding in the 70’s, becoming a hang gliding instructor in the late 80’s in California, being “forced” into paragliding in the early 90’s and his energizer batteries are going stronger than ever today. Phil has racked up 171,000 meters of vertical ascent in his back yard to date this year (at age 65!), just returned from a 4 weeks of vol-biv flying in Bir, India and is a story teller for the ages. We travel the world, meet the legends, pull off the absurd in Telluride, pack it hard in Bali, and find out who thrives in this sport and who should maybe take up a different activity.
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#207- Behind the Scenes of the Red Bull X-Alps with Tarquin Cooper
Tarquin Cooper has been the voice of the Red Bull X-Alps the last few editions and this year was joined by your host and four-time X-Alps competitor Gavin McClurg to add some commentating and live footage from the air. In this episode the two of us sit down to share our own unique perspective of the race as we chased the athletes and teams around the Alps and had our own adventures (and misadventures!) in our mostly frantic attempts to keep up.
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Bonus Episode! Decoding the Invisible with Calef Letorney
The bonus episode on leaving the nest with Calef was such a big hit we decided to do another show, call it the “201” version, or the next step. At this stage pilots are a couple hundred hours in. They are chasing cross country, getting more comfortable with bumpy air, they’ve hopefully done an SIV and are actively trying to decode the invisible. We take a deep dive into finding the special sauce of flying XC.
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