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“Know that you’re not alone.”
An interview with surfer and environmental activist Miles Masterson from Cape Town, South Africa
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July 2023
“Because I was born with a certain passport, I can enjoy the sea…”
An interview with surfer, activist, and founder of Reclaim the Sea, Tigs Louis-Puttick, who lives in NW France
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June 2023
“We don’t take care of the ocean like it takes care of us.”
An interview with Léa Brassy, surfer, freediver and environmental advocate from SW France
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May 2023
“The world has sort of already ended…”
An interview with mountain biker and academic Dr James Cherrington, who is based in Sheffield
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April 2023
“We can’t be well if the water isn’t well…”
An interview with surfer and marine social scientist Dr Easkey Britton from County Donegal in Ireland
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March 2023
“I used to go heliboarding, but I don’t anymore since it became apparent we have to change our ways.”
An interview with high mountain guide and backcountry snowboard specialist Neil McNab, who lived in Chamonix for 20 years
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“It was like surfing in a toilet with condoms, poop and panty liners wrapped around your ankles.”
An interview with surfer and pioneering environmental campaigner Chris Hines MBE
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“In the ski resorts that don’t have many snow days anymore, they took the lifts away and now people ski tour where the slopes used to be.”
An interview with snowboarder and environmental advocate Mitch Tölderer, who is based in the Austrian Tyrol
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February 2023
“We didn’t demand our ski lifts run using energy that will destroy civilisation.”
An interview with Auden Schendler, climate activist and SVP of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company
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“You don’t need to be a scientist to know if you dredge up toxic sediment and dump it in the sea it will have an impact.”
An interview with seal rescuer and coastal advocate Sally Bunce from the north-east of England
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January 2023
“There is a smugness that comes with surfing. But research shows surfers don’t do enough when it comes to the environment.”
An interview with surfer, swimmer, and academic Dr Rebecca Olive, who is from Byron Bay, Australia
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“Local ski instructors shovelling snow onto the beginners’ piste to make it skiable…”
An interview with snowboarder and environmental campaigner Cécile Burton, president of Montagne Verte Morzine
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