4th Annual Media Review Show on Great Wide Open

The annual tradition continues! If you are looking for your next television series, book, documentary or film about outdoor recreation and adventure, Great Wide Open host Lisa Hathaway has quite a few epic and inspiring recommendations! Some recs are from listeners, and others from the intrepid host herself. As the season cools, tune in for a jam-packed episode highlighting diverse outdoors-related media.

Photo: (from the top) A photo still from Resistance Climbing (2023), a photo still from America Outdoors (2023) and a photo still from Breaking Away (1979)

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Reviews & Mentions

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~ Films ~

Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton

https://lairdhamilton.com/articles/2017/take-every-wave-the-life-of-laird-hamilton/

Into the Well: 100 Miles. 32 Hours. 200 Racers.

Resistance Climbing

https://watch.reelrocktour.com/videos/rr17-resistanceclimbing

Breaking Away

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/breaking-away-1979

United States of Joe’s

https://www.redbull.com/us-en/episodes/reel-rock-s6-e3

The Weight of Water – Erik Weihenmayer

Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia

https://www.jefflowesmetanoia.com/

~ Television ~

America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston

https://www.pbs.org/show/america-outdoors-baratunde-thurston/

~ Books ~

The Longest Race by Kara Goucher

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature ed. Shaz Zamore and Ambler Wendler

~ Nature Rx ~

Prescription Nature