Walking Post podcast 20: Women walking pioneers and water purifier bottles

This week, we’re talking about a new book, Het Wilde Vrouwenpad. Avontuurlijke wandel (The Wild Women’s Trail. Adventure Walks) by Brigitte Ars, and water purifier bottles, with US company Grayl.

Interview times:

05:29 Grayl

23:26 Brigitte Ars

Brigitte Ars

There are countless hiking trails based on the paths of conquerors, philosophers and male saints. However, few hiking trails are dedicated to women, discovered researcher and lecturer Ars, who works at the Academy for Tourism at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

This prompted Ars to explore women’s trails in more depth. In her book Het Wilde Vrouwenpad. Avontuurlijke wandel [The Wild Women’s Trail. Adventure Walks], the journalist and adventurer takes the reader along trails that are connected to free-spirited women from history.

She walked the Dorothy Wordsworth Walking Trail (England), Brigid’s Way (Ireland), the Astrid Lindgren Trail (Sweden) and the Via Matildica (Italy), among others. She also discovered the influence of adventure hiking on the resilience of women.

Grayl water purifier bottles

Grayl, a US company, makes water purifier bottles that are available globally.

The company set out to revolutionise portable purification and designed a versatile, fast, and easy to use purifier so walkers could safely drink water drawn from spigots, hotel sinks, murky rivers, wells, or lakes.

Designed for use anywhere on earth, Grayl purifiers provide global protection from all waterborne pathogens plus a range of chemicals, heavy metals, and even microplastics.

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