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An interview recorded in sea kayaks in the Milford Sound on New Zealand's extremely remote west coast... Courtney Quintrell is an international adventure guide specializing in sky diving, sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking, motorcycle touring, sailin

Interviewing Amir Izadi in a ricksha navigating the busy streets near Samudra Beach in Kerala, South India.

Interviewing Dr. Larry Stevens, an evolutionary ecologist, while he rows the "Science Boat" down the Colorado River in The Grand Canyon just below Lava Falls.

A stone's throw from the Arabian Sea, Mandela sits down with the famous Coconut Mama (Eshota). Eshota has been cutting coconuts on the beach for 30+ years.

Recording deep in the bush on the sacred ancestral meeting grounds of the Kabi Kabi People in Eastern Australia.

Interviewing cowboy, Clayton Alexander, while riding horses in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana.

Mandela interviewing fisherman, Possum, on the "Southern Legend" a crawfishing boat on the Tasman Sea off New Zealand's South Island's West Coast.

This episode was recorded on Sunrise Beach last week on the eastern coast of Australia and is part of a worldwide series I have been recording for a number of years regarding shark conservation. This episode features Dr. Leonardo Guida. In 2016 D

Mandela interviews her mentor, Gary Steele, after paddling out into the Sea of Cortez before sunrise.

Everyone has a story. India is a land full of color, passion, spirituality, smells, sounds, tastes & especially stories. In the winter of 2015, Mandela spent two months recording on location in Kovalam, Kerala, South India.

After a 5 minute helicopter flight from the Tasman Sea, this interview was recorded on a hanging glacier in the Southern Alps. Featuring glaciology of the planet with a focus on Franz Josef Glacier. Recorded on moving ice while trekking the Franz Jo

Recording on the land of the Ngarigoo People of the Eora Nation in Australia. One of 5,000 indigenous Aboriginal Australian groups & the longest continuous living culture on earth. Indigenous Aboriginal Australians have occupied Australia for hu

Mandela interviewing Callum Morrison as they peddle the "Sea-Cycle" around The Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park on New Zealand's South Island's West Coast. Callum is a kayaker who guides custom cultural & river tours in Nepal.

The rocks were perfectly hot from being baked by the Indian sun while Jason Shrader was interviewed during sunset in Kovalam, South India.

After taking five different buses into the jungles within the mountains outside Panama City, walking a few miles down a red muddy road & following directions carved into a tree... Mandela records the sound effects of egg laying vertebrates &

Interviewing a Kabi Kabi Indigenous Aboriginal Australian Elder in Eastern Australia.

For the past couple years Mandela has worked on a project to collect a database of interviews with Scientists, Naturalists, Boatmen, Native Americans, National Park Service & others who care deeply about The Grand Canyon. This database will soo

Frank Russell traveled to New Zealand 30 years ago on a surf trip & never came home. He teaches a surf coaching school in Gisborne, NZ.

Mandela recording on the edge of the Panama Canal. It can take up to two weeks for a ship to pass through the canal which gives us plenty of time to collect & share stories from open ocean voyages to what it's like for a ship/boat to pass

Recorded on the sailboat named "Tranquility" with Fabio & Kate. The two adventurers fell in love in the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, married & have been sailing around the world ever since!

One the edge of the Arabian Sea, Mandela interview Amir Izadi. Amir is a child of the revolution who was born right after the Islamic Republic of Iran took over. Amir is a refugee living in Washington D.C. who immigrated with his family from Iran 1

Interviewing Rosco Gaudin on Mount Prospect above Te Anau overlooking Fiordland National Park on New Zealand's South Island's West Coast. Rosco races his custom built 4x4 trucks in enduro races.

Recording during Missoula's "Tweed Ride". A series of interviews recorded with cyclists while cycling around Missoula.

Recorded in the "Science Boat" floating on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Featuring Cynthia Valle, the only hydrologist for GC Nat. Park who studies the springs inside the park.

An interview recorded in sea kayaks in the Milford Sound on New Zealand's extremely remote west coast... Courtney Quintrell is an international adventure guide specializing in sky diving, sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking, motorcycle touring, sailin

Mandela interviews Dr. Naveeda a the Arya Ayurvedic Panchakarma Centre in Kovalam, South India.

Mandela interviewing the crew aboard the OCEARCH, a Great White Shark research vessel which tracks sharks all over the world.

Interviewing Karl Karlstrom, a geologist and professional rock climber who has been studying & working on the Grand Canyon for over three decades.

Mandela interviews Tofique Ahmed about the process of making pashmina in Kashmir.

After a 5 minute helicopter flight from the Tasman Sea, this interview was recorded on a hanging glacier in the Southern Alps. Featuring glaciology of the planet with a focus on Franz Josef Glacier. Recorded on moving ice while trekking the Franz Jo

Interviewing with Dr. Larry Stevens about Biodiversity in The Grand Canyon pre & post Glen Canyon Dam. History of the proposed & implemented Dam sites in The Grand Canyon...plus an inside look at the anatomy of Glen Canyon Dan in cluding i

Mandela interviews Dutch explorer, Martien Weber, in the gardens of the Maharaju Palace a stone's grow from the Arabian Sea. He shares with us the story of adopting a child in India 36 years ago & building a hotel & lavish gardens from the

Mandela interviewing fellow whitewater guide & kayaker, Chris Ewart, in The Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park on New Zealand's South Island's West Coast.

Recorded in the bottom of The Grand Canyon with Dr. Laurie Crossey. Laurie is a professor of geochemistry at the University of New Mexico. Her recent research in the Grand Canyon and Rio Grande  rift has involved the geochemistry of the

Interviewing Doctor Tyler Nordgren below President Harding Rapid. Dr. Nordgren is an Astronomer at the University of Redlands in Southern California

Recording on location next to the Arabian Sea. Featuring Eshowta, a powerful Indian woman who has been cutting coconuts and making coconut fiber ropes in Kerala, Southern India for the past twenty years.

Recorded 28 feet below the surface in the Discovery Center's Underwater Observatory. Featuring an interview with nature guides: Daniel Crook & Andrea Ferris. The Discovery Center is a floating building which gives visitors the chance to view ext

Mandela interviewing Robyn Rauna, a indigenous Maori woman, on location at her tribe's ancestral meeting place on New Zealand's North Island.

After paddling out into the Sea of Cortez before sunrise, Mandela interviews her mentor, Gary Steele.

Interviewing Karen, a dedicated Ashtangi, in Kerala, South India.

On the edge of the Arabian Sea, Mandela interviews Saleem Ahmed. Saleem is a third generation fisherman who specializes in hand carved coconut artwork.

Interviewing Joseph Vattapili, a third generation farmer who grows cardamom, cumin, turmeric, nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper, anise, cocoa & other spices in Southwestern India.

Frank Russell traveled to New Zealand 30 years ago on a surf trip & never came home. He teaches a surf coaching school in Gisborne, NZ.

Interviewing Lakshmi, a hard working Indian woman who works as a farmer in the summer & business women in her shop during the tourist season. Recorded in "Tina's Shop" in Kovalam, South India.

Interviewing Geoff Carpenter,  AKA "Carp". Carp is a second generation herpetologist and boatman who specializes in lizards. Liam O'Neil rows his dory down the Colorado creating an amazing atmosphere for the interview

During the winter of 2013, Mandela recorded interviews in Australia. Here she sits with Jemia, a Didjeridu artist and member of the Ngarigoo Nation.

On the eastern coast of Australia, Dr. Guida talks about baited drum lines which currently draw sharks to be killed in the name of protecting humans as well as shark finning and the effects of commercial fishing on shark and ray populations. The anc

Recorded in a dory floating down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon! Mandela's interviews Liam O'Neil. Liam grew up in the boathouse of his father's raft company & now works as a talented doryman, raft guide & kayak guide in the Gr

Interviewing a Kabi Kabi Indigenous Aboriginal Australian Elder at a sacred location where smoke signals were used to communicate with nearby tribes in order to ask & gain permission to cross into their land.

Recording on an isolated island 20 miles off the Pacific Coast of Panama.

Interviewing Martha Hahn, Chief of Science & Resource Management for Grand Canyon National Park. Recorded during Grand Canyon River Guides Guide Training Seminar two week river expedition.

Recorded this weekend on horseback in the heart of the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana. Clayton is a cowboy and wrangler for the K bar L Ranch (established in 1927) located where the North and South Fork of the Sun River meet. Clayton holds the

Sharing with story of the Indigenous Aboriginal Australian culture, ethnomusicology & didjeridu with pre-school students.

Interviewing Martha Hahn, Chief of Science & Resource Management for Grand Canyon National Park. Recorded during Grand Canyon River Guides Guide Training Seminar two week river expedition.

Mandela interview with two members of the Hualapai Nation, Clayborn & Brave. Recorded on The Colorado River a few miles upstream of Lava Falls, these two talented musicians will play drums & sing traditional Bird Songs while they tell the s

Mandela interviewing fellow sea kayak guide, Olive Butcher, on location in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand.

During the winter of 2014, Mandela recorded the early morning & eventide sound effects of egg laying vertebrate & invertebrates on an isolated island 20 miles off the Pacific Coast of Panama.

Recording during Missoula's "Tweed Ride". A series of interviews recorded with cyclists while cycling around Missoula.

Over a period of two months Mandela was able to present to over 10,000 children in Southwestern India in regards to the Didjeridu, fore, music is an international language.

Mandela interviewing Callum Morrison as they peddle the "Sea-Cycle" around The Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park on New Zealand's South Island's West Coast. Callum is a kayaker who guides custom cultural & river tours in Nepal.

Mandela interviewing sea kayak guide, skipper & home brewer, Adam Collier. Adam is the forefather of The Milford Sound's Annual Wild Foods & Brews Festival.

Mandela interviewing Zandria Taare, a descendent of the Maori Battalion. Gisborne, New Zealand.

An interview recorded in sea kayaks in the Milford Sound on New Zealand's extremely remote west coast... Courtney Quintrell is an international adventure guide specializing in sky diving, sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking, motorcycle touring, sailin

Recorded 28 feet below the surface in the Discovery Center's Underwater Observatory. Featuring an interview with nature guides: Daniel Crook & Andrea Ferris. The Discovery Center is a floating building which gives visitors the chance to view ext

Interviewing Rosco Gaudin in his heavily modified Land Cruiser traveling down a 4x4 track on Mount Prospect above Te Anau overlooking Fiordland National Park on New Zealand's South Island's West Coast. Rosco races his custom built 4x4 trucks in endu

an interview with Maori bush doctor, Tipene. Tipene works as a security guard at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand. Tipene is a Maori Irish man from the north western region of New Zealand’s North Island called, Wai kari mona. His Maori

Mandela interviews her mentor, Glenn Goodrich, while they guide their paddle rafts down the Colorado River in The Grand Canyon.

Sitting in the bush home of my friend, Tangi, a Māori elder & Kaitiaki Pounamu (Guardian of Greenstone). I first met Tangi in May & we spent the day looking for Greenstone at the mouth of the Arahura River. Tangi lives under tarps in an open

Recorded in the exact spot where almost 250 years ago Europeans made first contact with the Maori peoples of New Zealand. Mandela records this interview under a fig tree where the Turanganui River enters the Pacific Ocean featuring award winning jou

After two years of research & planning, I was finally able to join Smoke Elser for an interview inside Smoke's historic barn. I invite you to listen to stories from our local living cowboy legend, Smoke Elser. Smoke has spent the past 56 years l

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I made a long journey into the bush to meet & interview an Indigenous Aboriginal Australian Elder of the Kabi Kabi Nation who took me to two sacred sites for recording song lines & knowledge. We went deep into the valley to sit on the edge o

Jandamarra Cadd is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Warung descendent, is an inspirational man with many stories to tell. With his vibrant and expressive portraitures, Jandamarra’s artwork is emotive and insightful – and is a powerful medium to bridge th

Liam O’Neil is a whitewater professional who works full time on the Grand Canyon.

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