#16 In conversation with Chris Davies

In this episode we have an illuminating conversation with Chris Davies, an explorer of human limits through the mediums of bouldering and ultra running.

As with so many of our guests, our connection with Chris stems from our time working together at World Challenge, an organisation dedicated to global human connection and exploration of people and place.

Chris tells us a out his life in Wales, growing up wild, and making it his family home with his life partner Ellie and their three children.

When Chris was a teenager he left home and pursued his love of punk music. After realising he was yearning for a different kind of wild he immersed himself in bouldering, becoming one of the leading lights in the "welsh gold rush" of the late 90s and 2000s.

20 years later, after falling out of love with the politics and media expectations of modern bouldering Chris sought another passion that enabled him to commune with himself, alone in the wild. And so a relationship with ultra marathons, mountain ones was born.

In our conversation Chris tells us how his experience of pushing himself to explore his own limits both within himself and in relation to the wild, has built a profound respect for the wild, and for his own capacity to persist in the face of adversity. A valuable lesson for us all.

We hope you enjoy it x

Chris is on Insta @chrisdavies159

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