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On the verge of climbing her second of the famed seven summits, Eva Zu Beck evolves from a full-time travel filmmaker on Youtube to an extreme athlete and overland explorer in her fitted-out Defender.

Eva travels to places that most Western tourists have never even considered as vacation destinations, like Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, with the mission to uncover cultural beauty that is otherwise shrouded by negative narratives manufactured by Western media. Eva documents her adventures on her Youtube channel, which has over 1.3 million subscribers.

The ethos of Eva´s channel is best exemplified by her motto ¨the world belongs to the brave,¨ and she follows a life trajectory that goes way off course from modern expectations.

But After three years of constant travel, Eva shifted gears to developing her relatively dormant athleticism by dreaming up and executing daunting physical challenges in the outdoors which continue to edge on more and more extremes. She has become an ultra-runner, completing a 250-kilometer trek across the Accursed Mountains, and an overlander in her modified Land Rover Defender, and she’s currently tackling her second climb of the seven summits, her goal to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents.

In this episode of The Outdoor Journal Podcast, Eva discusses the meaning of Type 2 fun, how she overcomes fear as a solo female traveler, why she thinks Pakistan is on the verge of becoming the world’s number one tourism destination, and how to find comfort within discomfort.

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