Mind, Body, Tundra
Jon learns he is a lousy traveler in the spirit world but a great one in this world. He discusses the native Siberian attitude toward the relationship...
Exploring Deep Wilderness
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Famed explorer and author Jon Turk takes listeners to the most extreme placed on Earth. Travels by kayaks and dogsled, encounters with crocodiles and polar bears.
Special Moments
Seeing blue whales mating. A wolf welcomes you to the polar regions. A hawk or a deer in your back yard. Sometimes exploring deep wilderness comes dow...
In Defense of Cold
As winter comes in, Jon defends the much-maligned cold. It's important to human health, important to ecology. There is no bad weather, he insists, onl...
Hiking the Bitterroot Ridge
Jon and his son-in-law decide to traverse the endless Bitterroot ridge that separates Montana from Idaho. It's like hiking the Appalachian Trail--only...
Luck, Skill, and Death
Jon tells two stories in which adventurers did not die because of some combination of luck and skill and analyzes which played what role.
Loss in Emptiness
Jon pays tribute to an expedition partner who died skiing in Kyrgyzstan and tells about the walkabout Jon took on the frozen Kamchatka tundra. On this...
After Misha's Death: A Return to Vyvenka
After Misha's death (see Episode #9), Jon returns to the Village of Vyvenka on the frozen tundra of the Kamchatka Peninsula, having decided to go on a...
The Death of My Friend Misha
Jon and Misha head off to Kamchatka. Only one of them makes it back. Misha wasn't killed on an expedition. He died, rather, in a hospital in the Russi...
An Interview on Hemispheres
While Jon is away in Kamchatka, we bring you this interview he did earlier this year with Jim Banks's Hemispheres show on KGNU public radio in Boulder...
A Bitterroot Mystery
Jon and his wife, Nina, hiking in the Bitterroot forest near their home in Montana, find some strange tracks in the snow: some human, and some canine....