{"id":199236,"date":"2025-02-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=199236"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:01:51","slug":"kayaking-the-northwest-passage-with-west-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/kayaking-the-northwest-passage-with-west-hansen","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking the Northwest Passage with West Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/62e9badf-8d24-44f3-925c-94b96216087e?dark=false\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wild-ideas-worth-living.simplecast.com\/episodes\/kayaking-the-northwest-passage-with-west-hansen\/transcript\">Transcript <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2023, West Hansen led a team of kayakers, known as The Arctic Cowboys, through the Northwest Passage, making history as the first people to cross it by human power. 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