National Geographic Weekend
Summary: National Geographic Weekend, hosted by Boyd Matson, is a weekly talk show featuring interviews with some of the most fascinating explorers and scientists on the planet.
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Podcasts:
This week, we bring our family to a Buddhist monastery in India in search for enlightenment, then we reflect on the limitations of life at 50 above 8,000 meters, build a mammoth with the help of DNA and an Asian elephant and learn back country skiing safety tips.
This week, we turn around near the summit of a mountain in Myanmar in the name of survival, then we learn the secrets of delicious Southern cookin', chase water down the Colorado River into the dry delta, chat with the hero of "Unbroken," and visit the legacy of communism and a decade of war in Sarajevo.
This week, we lead an ascent of el Capitan in Yosemite with a 13-year old, a blind climber and a paraplegic climber; we fight to stop the stealing of 38 million animals each year from Brazil's forests; we learn the secrets of Stonehenge and ponder how the 35-ton stones were arranged; we fight to protect the last remaining populations of the world's 3,000 wild tigers; and we bottle feed a baby cheetah.
This week, we fly under human power in the name of "living beautifully"; cross the world's 20 biggest glaciers; learn to appreciate stinky cheese; paddle the longest river on every continent; and scuba dive deep inside Iceland's fissures.
This week on Nat Geo Weekend Radio, we take the adventure of a lifetime, riding a trio of horses from Canada to Brazil; we learn to pick the perfect wine for all occasions; peer behind the divide that separates the living from the dead, scientifically; protect the last 800 mountain gorillas with our lives; and learn the secret to comfortable bike riding year-round.
This week, we set a speed record on El Capitan's nose route; make wildlife poachers famous by treating them like Al Capone & Pablo Escobar; swim in an ancient sewer to learn about tsunami risk; hold our breath after a big wave surf crash; and create a map of New York City by studying the differences in its rodents.
This week we rescue climbers trapped in a blizzard on the top of Mount Everest, then we snap an orangutan family photo, test an elephant's memory and get caught in the middle of a chimpanzee war.
This week, we cycle 11,000 miles through 22 countries in 365 days, ski down pretty steep mountain faces for an all-woman ski film, dive 300 feet below sea level into an underwater cave in the Bahamas to learn about our island past, sing along with a storytelling musician who is fixated on the past but is hopeful for the future, and finally, we try to preserve Islamic monuments before ISIS can destroy them.
This week, we summit K2 on our 7th tent (but not without cramming four people into a two person tent to outlast a snowstorm), then we talk the Best American Travel Writing with icon Paul Theroux, give a turtle CPR, learn about "Valley Uprising" and the birth of Yosemite National Park's climbing culture, and learn how National Geographic makes their maps.
This week, we visit the prehistoric "deadliest place on the planet," turn last night's dinner scraps into tomorrow's cell phone battery power, visit the radioactive ruins that surround Chernobyl's nuclear disaster site, learn about how empathetic elephants can be, and arrest poachers.
This week, we try to ski to the South Pole but end up in our backyard with a saw in our hands, then we draw blood from an elephant at Washington DC's Smithsonian National Zoo, and finally, we speed down the track at the British Bobsled Championships.
This week, we climb into a volcano in our fire-proof suit, invent robotic bees that can do everything from pollenate to spy, and swim the world's seven seas.
This week on National Geographic Weekend Radio, we climb with mountaineer Reinhold Messner, the first man to climb all of the world's tallest peaks without supplemental oxygen, then we diet with some help from our ancient ancestors, ski first descents in Greenland, and track very intellingent African hogs.
This week, we set sail for 1,152 days without setting foot on land, save 300,000 miles of ocean, protect power grids and water supply companies from international hacker attacks, reconstruct the world's meanest carnivore, and find out what is going on in your pet cat's head.
This week, we solve a 5,000 year old murder mystery in the Italian Alps, create a country devoted to garbage, survive cancer in a novel way, meet elephants and hippos for breakfast, and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act.