Almost every kid with a few dollars to scrape together has owned a skateboard of some kind, and pretty soon after has ridden it down a hill near their house. But a few take it to the next level, using gravity to pull them down the steepest roads at speeds that defy belief. Just inches…

At the age of 16, I wasn’t thinking about achieving something incredible. My thoughts were firmly on the pursuit of the opposite sex, of SCUBA diving and the freedom of a driver’s licence! Lucky for the human race some youngsters have a loftier agenda. Jessica Watson was one such girl, who with the influence of…

Bill is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland. He is widely published in the literature and has authored a book called The Social Leap, an insight into how evolution has influenced our current thinking and behaviour. “Life on the sprawling grasslands precipitated a shift from individualistic ways of living to more cooperative…

Yep you read that right, James Cameron himself joins me to wrap up twelve great episodes with gripping tales of exploring what lies in the deepest parts of the ocean. From filming historic shipwrecks like the German battleship Bismarck (16,000 feet deep) and Titanic (12,500 feet deep), to the very bottom of the world at…

There is no way short of paying for a seat on Elon Musk’s Space X rocket of hitting 5 Gs, unless you get behind the wheel of a top fuel drag racer. With engines that develop over 10,000 horse power, you’ll be doing well over 300 mph in less than 4 seconds and then it’s…

Peter Helliar is a much loved son of Australian television and comedy. He acts, performs, writes, directs and more. He doesn’t really come across as your outdoors adventure type, in fact in his own words he’s “a bit risk averse”. So when I was looking for someone a little different to talk with about risk…

When you experience the worst day of your life, it is hard to look beyond it and see the positives. That’s unless you are someone remarkable like Heath Jamieson, a former Australian commando sniper who was shot through the neck in 2011, in Afghanistan. Following years of rehab for a high spinal and traumatic brain…

When I fly in a plane across a vast expanse of ocean, I often wonder what it would feel like to be out there alone, just you, a boat, and the elements. How would I fare facing massive storm pushed waves in the dark of night, alone and frightened as the ocean tried to consume…

There’s an easy way, and there’s a hard way of doing things and Tim Jarvis seems to prefer the latter. Tim’s exploits in the polar regions have become almost as legendary as the explorers of the heroic period, who’s fascinating but often deadly journeys he has recreated right down to the hobnail boots and reindeer…

Growing up in an army family in Australia, Dan Pronk moved around a lot and never seemed to make close friends. But he found his tribe in sports, excelling in triathlon and for a while it promised a career. But when that fell through, and having studied exercise science, Dan decided to become a doctor….