Episode 16 - Sal Montgomery on her passion for kayaking, adventuring in the most untouched wilderness

As a former member of Team GB Kayak, Sal Montgomery shares with Mike about how she got into the world of kayaking. Sal talks about her numerous expeditions, often with an all-male team and occasionally taking on the role of safety kayaker on TV series. She has saved people from drowning on more than one occasion. 

Expedition kayaker and adventure author, Sal can usually be found in deep, committing canyons, exploring unknown whitewater and dropping off tall waterfalls. Sal’s led multiple first-descents all over the world, often in some pretty weird and wonderful places!

Sal trained as a physiotherapist and worked with the NHS during the Pandemic while travels could no longer happen.

When she's not working at Nottinghamshire's Kings Mill Hospital, she's out conquering uncharted territory in her one-woman kayak. Sal’ passion for exploring has led her to visit some of the world's most dangerous and beautiful locations. 

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Hope - That is the Astungkara Way

• What are the Differences Between Permaculture, Organic Farming and Regenerative Agriculture?

• WHY REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE?

• Regenerative Agriculture: Definition

• What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes

• From the Ground Up: Regenerating Bali’s Agriculture the Astungkara Way

• DEVI SRI- The Rice Goddesses

• ASTUNGKARA WAY: ON A MISSION TO REGENERATE BALI’S SOILS AND ECOSYSTEMS

• Regenerative farming in Bali 

• Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy

• Explaining Bali’s Subak System (and Why Rice Fields are Cultural Landscapes)

• Resiliency and the Balinese Subak

• The Impacts of Tourism on Subak, Sawah, and the Environment

• Is the so called ‘Green Revolution’ turning brown?

• Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Modifications

• Bali Green Economic Initiative – Tim Fijal & Maria Agustin – INKURI 

• Connecting through Rice

• Subak, an Agriculture Essential

• Exploring Black Soldier Fly Frass as Novel Fertilizer for Improved Growth, Yield, and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Maize Under Field Conditions

• POTENTIAL OF LOSS OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER IN LOWLAND RICE FARMING IN KLUNGKUNG DISTRICT, BALI

• A study on rice field farmer implementation of rice straw composting

• Tourists gone, Bali’s young entrepreneurs eye sustainable future

• The year Bali tourism stopped 

• 'Bali is not only about tourism': Covid-19 prompts rethink for island's residents

• Zach Bush on why all health issues come back to how we treat the soil 

• Farming - Zach Bush MD

• Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Modifications

• Recognizing farmers’ practices and constraints for intensifying rice production at Riparian Wetlands in Indonesia

• Plastic Pollution: Bali’s Iconic Beaches Are Buried In Plastic With 60 Tonnes Garbage Collected Each Day

• Buried in rubbish: Bali’s beaches blighted by sea-borne waste

• In Bali young people lead the fight as plastic plage threatens paradise

• Solving Bali’s Rivers of Trash

• Tinggly Trash Traps 

• Research into Bali’s plastic polluted rivers and designs of suitable collection structures for rivers to mitigate the plastic discharge into the ocean

• Bali - Hidden Truth - The Bridge 

• 100 Trash Barriers To Be Installed in Bali Rivers To Reduce Plastic Pollution

• WASTE CRISIS! AN OVERVIEW INTO BALI’S NIGHTMARE

• Bali’s youth take action to stem the tide of plastic pollution

• Bali fights for its beautiful beaches by rethinking waste

• Traditional Views and Attitude Toward Waste and Rivers in Indonesia: Challenges of 

• Cleaning Up the Indonesia Polluted Environment