Afghanistan’s outdoor connections, gender disparity in mountain sports, and uptake in outdoors use

Text us your views -- we'll share some on the next episode. All texts are anonymous so be sure to include your name if you would like to be mentioned! Francesca Turauskis is joined by Outside: Our Way creator Ani Patas, Founder of Our Shared Outdoors Kirsty Pallas and endurance cyclist and creator of The Adventure Shed Vedangi Kulkarni. Topics covered include Afghanistan’s outdoors connections and how we can support as a community; gender disparity in mountain sports and initiatives to help; reactions to big numbers of people enjoying the outdoors, and path erosion. READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE CTA: NEWS: Outdoor Organisations in Afghanistan - How You Can Help AdventureSmartUK | Be Adventure Smart: make your good day better Untamed Borders Fund JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up to the newsletter Email us your thoughts and stories ontheoutsidepod@gmail.com CREDITS: The panel today was Ani Patas, Kirsty Pallas, and Vedangi Kulkarni Produced by Francesca Turauskis Editing and Transcript by Jack O’Driscoll Artwork by Sophie Nolan Music is Bassbeat by Alex Norton Social Media by Frankie Dewar Special thanks to our Patreon Support Crew - Wild For Scotland and Charlie’s Supply Shop. You can On The Outside is part of the Tremula Network, sharing unheard stories of adventure, nature and the outdoors. Find out more and listen to our other shows at tremula.network.