Filmmaker and adventurer Beau Miles (@beauisms ) will be in the house at Patagonia Brisbane next Friday, having a chat and signing his book, 'The Backyard Adventurer'.
'The Backyard Adventurer' is a great read — filled with meaningful and pointless expeditions, new ideas on experimental learning, and making meaning out of tins of beans, bits of rubbish and elbow grease.
11AM - 1PM, Friday 22 May
Patagonia Brisbane
7 Wandoo Street, Fortitude Valley
Photo: Mitch Drummond (@mitchdrummond )
Bugger, they accepted our offer! I can honestly say this is the worst house I’ve ever stepped into. At least, worst in that it represented a huge amount of work based on rot, white-ants, termites, mould, and a million things I knew we couldn’t see. I tried to forget about it. But two years later, still on the market, we went for it. So, here goes, another bloody Youtube renovation series. Think of this as being the best renovation show you’ve ever seen, then add in strange side adventures, my hilarious wife, a wild population of dingoes, and the use of ‘new’ second hand materials just to make my life frustratingly satisfying. This is a junk house and it's now on YouTube!
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BAD RIVER Ep 4 is now on YouTube... The Murray River is the longest, biggest and most damaged watercourse in Australia. It seemed fitting I end my Bad River series on the most contested flow of water in the continent. In a renovated canoe, keeping company with friend and river expert ‘Ponch’, we paddled west into what’s called the breadbowl of Australia where the river supports over a million square kilometers of farming. Our aim was to get our heads around the immense challenge the river faces; massive under allocation of environmental flows, deforested watershed, rising salinity, drying wetlands and frontier style tourism. The hardest part about the whole trip was that we had a bloody great time, punting down the river at the speed of a good walk. This film is about the difficulty of storytelling when a bad, horribly degraded and poorly managed entity like a giant river can still provide such a good experience. That, in itself, is the most troubling of insights.
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he sets the scene, they raise the bar ☝️🔥
discover the untold stories behind some of the most daring expeditions in Adventures Unpacked with Beau Miles 🌋🪂
as YouTuber and Backyard Adventurer @beauisms teams up with Red Bull athletes for wild, mini adventures
now streaming on Red Bull TV - Link in bio 🔗 👀
I’ve decided to live in a dystopian future where you strap on new body parts. With a new set of knees, hauling 36 tins of beans in futuristic (1980’s) briefcases, I hauled the beans and myself down-then-up one of the longest spurs in Australia. It was hard, insightful, and worth it for an impromptu summit-date with my wife.
I recently ran across Timor Leste, almost sea to sea. With a rag-gag bunch of 10 others from all over the world, I was SunSmart, sweaty, a bit spewy, and in absolute trail running Zen. Booming vert, brilliant track, drinking coffee right off the tree (kinda), a helluva story unfolded as we made our way across the country- the story of La Rende, No Surrender! which maps the Aussie and Timorese defence of the country in world war 2. This is another running film that turned out to be about a lot of things other than running.
I recently ran most of the way across Timor Leste. Almost, as we could see the coast on day one, and saw the opposite coast five days later. Ten of us, bootleg runners from all over the world, signed up to swim, sweat, spew and laugh our way across the country. As days went on we learned about the sobering history of the dirt we were running on, The Larende! the trail of No Surrender. Helluva story, helluva run.
🌋 NEW SHOW ALERT: ADVENTURES UNPACKED WITH BEAU MILES 🪂
YouTuber and Backyard Adventurer @beauisms teams up with Red Bull athletes for wild mini adventures and digs deep into the untold, life-changing stories behind their most daring expeditions.
Featuring @nourianewman , @tomdedorlodot , @acroracio and @jeremieheitz
Now streaming on Red Bull TV. Link in bio 🔗👀
I decided to offset my return flights from Australia to the Azores (in the middle of the Atlantic). And not by paying someone else to offset them, by simply planting trees in the Azores. So, from the airport, with an airport trolley and 300 trees, I set off to plant my little arse off. This is part of my hosting of a Red Bull TV show, and with all the travel I’ve been doing for it.
I recently shot a TV series for Red Bull where I interviewed world class athletes in their backyards. While shooting some introductory shots from a friendly white-water river in France, I end up getting rescued by the athlete (@nourianewman ) I was there to interview. Long story short, it all went swimmingly until I missed my roll and took a swim in a very cold river. Nouria does a brilliant job of mopping up. It’s a series of bad decisions followed by a series of good ones.
Melbourne! I’m showing brand new films this Saturday, the 29th of November. I’ll teach golden Australian’s how to roll a kayak, then ride a rented town bike through the French Alps, and then take the same blokes I taught to roll kayaks, on a sea kayak tour. Join me as I tell a bunch of mediocre stories (some related to the films, some not at all), before finishing with an audience led Q&A.
Hopefully see you there, tickets in my bio, goodonyas!
