Classes from a lifetime of journey
There may be a lot extra to Mike Atkinson (aka Outback Mike) than what we noticed of his 64 days, toughing it out within the wilds of Tassie’s west coast, on the primary season of SBS’ Alone Australia.
He’s been having epic expedition-style adventures since his first lengthy hike at 11 years outdated together with his household and constructing in the direction of his first solo journey, snowboarding from Mt Kosciusko to Canberra, aged 17.
Watching him on ALONE, I used to be drawn in by his problem-solving and seemingly countless tinkering to construct a greater existence on the market. As you’ll hear on this episode (and may learn way more about in his ebook Fashionable Day Castaway), that canoe wasn’t his first.
On this ep we get to know a bit extra about what drives this sort of life and what it takes within the type of meticulous planning and testing, earlier than committing to one thing which may price him all the things and the way he as soon as made the choice to name for assist.
BTS: When you hear rigorously, you would possibly hear plane within the background. Yep… when you’re going to be an Air Power pilot, you reside close to an airbase!
Key episode takeaways:
- Why life is best with journey
- How Mike approaches problem-solving and mitigating threat
- The worth of calling for assist early
- What a pilot sees from the air (ideas for being seen)
- Choice-making in a disaster – how to not be ‘flappy’
- The significance of satellite tv for pc communication and worth of 2-way units eg. ZOLEO, InReach, and many others
- Selecting who might be your emergency contact
- When feelings can shock you and the way they might have an effect on choice making
- Preparation and planning
- What adventurers can be taught from pilots – planning for each attainable situation, psychological checklists and rehearsing them
- Mitigating rescue sources by good planning
- The problem of sharing places to ‘particular spots’ on social media
- The down and UP sides of threat
- Why hardship is sweet for us
Hyperlinks from this episode:
Mike’s ebook – Fashionable Day Castaway
Timelapse video of Mike constructing his dugout canoe
Mike and his children do the Snowies 10 Peaks Video
Because of sponsor Paddy Pallin
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Episode transcript
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Sponsor // Paddy Pallin
Rescued Podcast foremost picture // Ben Cirulis and fotografija.com.au
