Novice Paddler's EPIC 3- Month SOLO JOURNEY to the Bering Sea
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
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Dermot Higgins set of on a huge adventure this July. He wanted to be the first Irish person and oldest to paddle the 3400km (2300 miles) from the start of the Yukon River to the Bering Sea in Alaska. He faced challenge after challenge and even woke up one night to a bear standing on top of him!
Will he make it to the end?
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Your a badass lady
I'm excited to find a channel by a woman! And thank you for sharing stories with positive outcomes. There are so many channels that just focus on tragedies.
Woop! Welcome!!!! I do try to mix it up with the tragic and those who beat the odds and survive.
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Awesome ❤
"Free as a buck naked baby bird" LOL 😂😂😂
That was an amazing story with so many twists and turns, good luck and bad luck, I'm glad he succeeded. You did a masterful job of telling Dermot's story, thanks.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the way you cover these amazing folks attempting these awesome adventure. Your focus on the person and who they are adds so much to the story. Keep up the great work!
I just absolutely love the vibe that this old boy gives off. I can You can We can... Just beautiful 🤗
And then a big ferocious, hearty, belly laugh to complete the moment!!
I judge his bicycle epic ride as the most challenging and impressive. Cycling around the world is just sensational
I like his little freudian slip at the end when he almost says “I feel immensely plowed”. I would too lol
😂😅
Go Dermot!!! What a tough old man! To do that solo and still get thru all the challenges is amazing. Inspiring to say the least. Great video my friend! Keep’em coming 😀
What a guy eh!? Thanks for watching!
Yay Dermot!!! What a spirit!!!
lol...Hinterland who's who...I remember that from when I was a kid...shows you how old I am!!
I love it - So, that's not good! Haha...I swear you've never had so many laughs than with this story, I know I haven't!! Hahaha!
I-kon Yukon We-Kon -
I really think this is my favourite episode of yours!
Thanks for sharing!!
I'm Irish and never heard of this man! He's got the full Irish mojo! Stubborn, funny and wild ❤
100%!!
This was a great adventure, and I am so glad that it turned out well. Thank you for all your research and the excellent visuals that helped to tell the story. I think we need to hear one of your own stories about the Yukon River and Adventures Gone Wrong!
Loved the integration of the actual footage. I’m all caught up, waiting for the next video release 👍🏼
Thanks for binging! Next video out tomorrow!
Well done, Dermot! There wasn't much that went extremely wrong in this adventure (compared to other cases we've seen here). Although, there were times when it could end really badly... Those "beep" bears! Just the thought of meeting them…🤪
He had a lot of good luck along the way!
@@adventuresgonewrong it’s the 4 leaf 🍃 ☘️ thing. I’ve literally seen it in action repeatedly when my Irish roots took me to Ireland 🇮🇪 Personally I’d prefer more of these than the ones that end in tragedy. Maybe 70/30. Just a suggestion.
Good to know, I prefer the less tragic ones as well.
I’m so glad he made it!
What a precious gentlemen, so glad he succeeded thoroughly enjoyed this story 💜
Love your videos! You should share more of your adventures with us 😁. I love Dermot's spirit and attitude 😊
Ha I could. I have had plenty of them "go wrong"!!
@@adventuresgonewrong I’d love to hear more about your adventures. Maybe for a special episode?
Like WOW@I am sooooo proud of this guy! Greatest story yet!!!! And he’s Irish to boot!
He's amazing!
❤❤❤what an amazing man. He deffo has the luck of the Irish.
Yay! Dermot, you did it. A wonderful tale so well told. An adventure that ended well.
What a great story! Thanks for making the video - Dermot is so inspiring.
Thanks for this video🌷
Well done, Dermot!! 🫡
I’m glad his adventure turned out well
Amazing journey! Great job Dermot! What an inspiration you are - tough as nails you ole Irishman!
Beautiful and amazing story! 🥹🫶🏻❤️🙌🏻👏🏻
Thanks for the video, I really enjoy your storytelling. And Dermot did great, happy to see him reach the Bering Sea in the end.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well this episode just warmed my Cold Alberta Heart. Fellow paddler here and my bucket list includes paddling the Yukon River. NOT ALONE! And NOT FAR. Great storytelling and wonderful to see my country in your stories.
What an adventurer! I thought the phrase held together with string and chewing gum was a joke !
Haha not for Dermot!
That’s a really uplifting story and I am so glad to hear it today. I will use his mantra “I can, you can, we can” for all those times I feel I cannot do it deep down I know I just have to keep trying it in different ways and eventually I will get there! Thank you for your stories I love all those hiking tips very helpful for an aspiring adventurer. ❤😊
Isn't it great!? So glad to hear he's inspiring others, that was one of his main goals!
What a beautiful and inspiring story! Way to go Dermot!! 🛶 💪 🙌
I saw "novice," "solo," & "Bering Sea" all in one headline...and I cannot believe he lived.
Exactly!
Always look forward to a new video from you and am glad this lovely man had a happy ending.
Your storytelling is wonderfully interesting and unpretentious.
Thank you for the honorable mentions in your video. I'm returning on June 26th to complete the last 100 miles/160km.
Oh wow, that's amazing! Way to not give up. Even though you made it sooo far! What an epic adventure, I'm excited for you!! I'll definitely follow along. Good luck!
New subscriber here. I really enjoy the effort in your videos. 👍
I really love the way you told this incredible tale. Thank you for a great story.
Patching the canoe with gum is wild
One of the most beautiful adventure stories I have ever heard!
What an amazing story! For an older, out of shape person to do what he did, it's very inspiring! What an adventure!
The storytelling is amazing. What a treat I've discovered on UA-cam!
Glad to have you here!
Love the slogan. Wat a great man.
This made my eyes moist! ❤❤
Great story also fantastic narrator 🎉❤❤😊
Wow, unreal. Dermot was our travel guide today in Ireland. He mentioned a few of his other adventures and we were dumbfounded. Goes to show you never know who you're really talking to.
Wild!
Dudes a legend 😊
Did 170km out of what was originally supposed to be a 750km trip last year. I voluntarily cut it down to about 300km but then my planned supplies got messed up and i had to just get back asap.
Took me a year to build the boat and practice / train with it.
Trip was awesome otherwise. Physically quite difficult at times (13 portages, 2 rivers with 1 against the current) and i was bleeding from every finger by the end but no real accidents persay.
Lots of complications.... enough to keep it interesting anyways. Have my own odd shaped log story. (working on the videos for my channel.)
I feel like using a flute and shooting the inside of your tent with bearspray is darwin feeling you up for a proper shag.
Aquatic leaves and pine sap or pitch can be used to fix boats, even plastic ones.
Sounds like you have some great content for videos!
@@adventuresgonewrong Would be better i wore a gopro or something. All my stuff is shot off a phone. Worse yet, i hate editing. Lol
If i had to classify them, they would be more of a logistical / technical genre with summaries of the trips im doing. Some footage but more of a how-to so people get out and do their own.
I can picture a movie about this!
This man is phenomenal! Love your channel Stacy and you! Just awesome THANK YOU ❤️
Isn’t he amazing!? Thanks for watching, hope he inspires others like he hoped to.
@@adventuresgonewrong he definitely did me I love his quote “I can, you can, we can! 😍
Wow Dermot had some wild adventures made a very interesting story, thank you for sharing
When you start out as an amateur and by the end are an expert. Love this tales of bravery.
Very well said, seeing him at the beginning vs the end, what a huge transformation!
Dermot is awesome! That's cool AF. I remember pissing in the Yukon one morning at my camp beside it riding motorcycles up to Alaska with some Navy buddy's back in '90. I love canoe expeditions, though they be hard if any mistakes are made, say in navigation. I'd want to do this, but don't dig grizzlies, and I remember how mosquitoes and fly's can be up there. Besides, I wouldn't take my dog, so no way for me now. Something more tame for us. Enjoyed watching this. I been in bear areas alone and unarmed. I remember the fear. I've been called fearless before, but that ain't the entire truth. Yeah, Im only hanging out in the more mild places from now on. Grizzly free and Mild is the way. With a hand cannon I might go into such an area, but not like Id want to have to kill one, and then there's the damned bugs to deal with still. Yeah, that's a really impressive trip doing the entire river. I want to go do the entire upper Potomac and folding bicycle back up to my van on the C&O canal towpath. Alternatively, I could stash a bicycle on a big Island before setting out from upriver. Wanted to 30 years ago. Getting evicted by slumlord now, so I'm outfitting my van to live in. Got canoes for shade. That trip ain't good to start after the first week of October though. Don't know if Ill be ready. I got nothing else to do though. I dig how he broke out of 15 year depression. I must break out of mine, but I got my dog take care of so Im okay
I love how he shares his personal story and mental health issues, it’s so important for others who also struggle to see they’re not alone. And yup, the bugs can be brutal up here! Some years they’re worse than the bears imo.
What a delightful man Dermot is!
I am watching this right before I go to bed so this was a nice wholesome ending!
Canada has this natural wealth, beautiful forests, rivers, waterfalls.... it is amazing.....BUT..... the idea of peacefully trekking and being greeted face to face with a bear is pretty un-bear-able😁
Yeah, thats why we pretty much did away with bears in Europe... 🐻
Im up late listening to this amazing story and drifted off to sleep. I awoke at the end and thought I was watching an Anthony Hopkins movie for a moment. And replaying what I had missed thought what an amazing movie this would be. Incredible! Another fantastic tale well told. Love this channel!!!
I really appreciate how your videos try to use the person's pictures or other local adventurers pictures rather than NatGeo style professional ones, it does a great job showing more of the reality each person is dealing with :)
Im glad you made it safely off the lake by the way!
I just love these stories you tell so well. What a great adventure! Good for him! The luck of the Irish. I've always wanted to paddle the Porcupine. We met a Japanese guy who spoke no English, solo paddling the Porcupine. There's a lot of interesting adventurers in that part of the world.
There really is so many up here in Alaska and the Yukon!
Great episode. Loving your channel more each time. Really enjoying the survival stories.
They’re addicting aren’t they!
Paddling in the rain and wind has got to be the worse and to do it willing for 3 months is insane. Great job and a awesome story to be told.
I came face to face with a bear at night in Germany. About 2 am. 10 feet away. It stood up and growled, im running backwards, scared to death, bear took off in the opposite direction. I literally thought i was going to die.
One of the most inspiring adventures i ever came across, and very entertaining too. Thank you! 🌟👍
You don't really have to be an adventurer to have injuries. This afternoon my hubby went down the stairs a whole lot faster than he intended, gash above his eye that needed stitched, and a fractured nose. Maybe he just likes homegrown adventures. Its not his first but I sure hope that almost 70 it will be his last.
Wow. What great courage and fortitude,commitment
And determination
Congratulations Dermot so happy for you to reach that amazing goal. And So exciting to watch Thank you for sharing ❤🎉
What an epic adventure. Loved how you told it.
Inspiring! 👏
Amazing story amazing individual….fair play to him ….now that was an adventure!
heartwarming, inspring video... Thank you.
You are a wonderful storyteller!
Love it Thank you. Listening to you is like an adult bedtime stories ", I can you can we can"!❤️💖
You look great in this video. Your camera make-up is even and looks very natural. Hope I'm not commenting out of turn. Great tale. Good for him! How brave (or ignorant) he was to tackle this adventure on his own. Good to hear a bit about your personal adventures.
I love her videos!
Fantastic story,great content as usual
Go Dermo Go!!
What a guy eh!?
Amazing old man ❤
Loved this! Thank you:)
Thanks for watching!
What a great story. Bravo Dermot!❤
Amazing! Inspiring.....they talk of the luck of the Irish - it's a joke.....(what luck?) Im Irish and find a bit of gallows humor along with a touch of humility to recognize that some of our best moments will be had from insane choices that somehow seem to work out....maybe there is some luck after all.....G
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Naked with mosquitoes on the Yukon no thank you. I think he did several things that put himself in exstream unneeded danger & probably had the search & rescue network on high alert along the river. He should of really done more research before trying something like this glad he made it he is very lucky.
When he capsized I thought of Jack London's story, "To Build a Fire."
I remember you’re living in the Yukon, how are you doing with all of the wildfires?? Hopefully you’re doing well 🤞🏻💕💐🤗 I’m from Rocky Mountain House AB so I feel your frustration and hurt ❤️🩹💔. Stay safe my friend 🤞🏻🙏🏻
No wildfires here! We had one close by (about 30km away) early in the summer but now it's the residents of Yellowknife in NWT who evacuated. It looks like they may be able to go back soon. The upside to the summer season ending at this time, is less fires. It's cooling off and fall is coming! Thanks for asking. Hope all is well down there.
@@adventuresgonewrong I’m praying for everyone going through this horrible time 🙏🏻🤞🏻. It was very close here a while back. Have a wonderful day love your channel & thank you 💕💐
I'm Irish but I had never heard of this guy, to my shame. I recognise the charity logos though 😊
These videos are great, keep it up please!
Thanks, will do!
Go Dermot go!!
Readers: If you’ve had a head/brain trauma, (or assault, such as chemical toxicity), you are statistically more vulnerable to anxiety and depression. There is help. Look for non invasive and non toxic methods of recovery even if the trauma occurred years ago. I’ll make mention of what can be done about joints in another post. Stay safe adventurers. PS I love and miss loons.
Please tell me more.
Thanks!
@@thehubrisoftheunivris2432 Sorry your comment did not make it to me. I’m on here due to a “like” that just came into my notifications. LOL Anyhow look for supplements like pycnogenols, amino acids, and grape seed extract to start, everything for supporting the reduction in debris that happens with head and brain trauma. Near infrared is good for mitochondria which gets depleted. Look online for information and also get some guidance and start your journey. Each person is very individual in terms of recovery. Did you or a loved one have a head trauma?
@@CricketGirrl welcome!
What happened to loons?
Great story, thank you.
Hinterland! Takes me back. Thanks for another entertaining and illuminating yarn,
Hinterland people unite! 👊🏼
Fantastic! Congratulations Dermot!!
Great Storyteller!
Thanks for another great video! This one was really inspiring. Makes me want to go out into nature. Lol. Not as far as he did though!
I felt the same, in fact my friend and I who paddled the river a few years ago were talking about doing the same trip to the Bering Sea one day!
Thank you. I enjoyed that.
Outstanding job Sir, 😁
Great story and thank you both for sharing.
How great was this!!
Great vid -wel.done Dermot!
You should make a whole separate video about your experiences on this lake. I'm sure people would love to hear more about those adventures!
It really wasn’t that exciting, we encountered wild winds and got stuck for 2 days then a boat rescued us haha. The paddling race though, that was something that was wild with the nonstop paddling, hallucinations, exhaustion and hands so sore I couldn’t open a can of pop the next day!
Awesome!! Thank God he made it!
Hinterland Who’s Who. Lol. I just had a childhood flashback. Thank you.
Haha the best!
Great story Stacy 👍
Thanks for watching!
Another great story🎉
Inspiring!!! 🤘Thanks for posting. ☮
Epic!!!
Great story well told. Thank you.