Welcome to The First Mile

The First Mile is an immersive travel podcast, bringing you untold stories from the world of adventure.

It is presented by Ash Bhardwaj and Pip Stewart — two award-winning travel journalists, who are adventurers in their own right — and explores everything from the ethics of cultural tourism, to documenting your journeys and making a living from travel. Ash and Pip navigate this territory with some of the world’s greatest travellers, who reveal how they got their first break in travel writing, planned remote expeditions, or made the switch from a corporate career to a life of adventure. Alongside these in-depth interviews are travel-narrative dispatches: evocative field recordings from Ash and Pip’s adventures, which take the listener along for the ride.

New episodes are released weekly, in 10-episode seasons.

You can listen to all the episodes through the embedded player below. To learn more about each episode, and to see the show notes, click on the episode link in the embedded player.