Ray Zahab (impossible2Possible) & Co-Host Mercedes Nicoll | Brenton On Tour Travel Cast 8

Ray joins the Brenton On Tour Travel Cast to wrap up the series with stories of his journey across The Sahara, Arctic, and his adventures around the world! Ray also breaks down his amazing charity impossible2Possible and taking people on adventures all over the world. It's a great way to wrap up the series and Mercedes gives us an update on her world and podcast Dropping In. We do a quick review together of our chats throughout the series and so much more!

This episode originally aired September 11, 2020. All contests and/or giveaways are closed.

Ray Zahab is a Canadian explorer, ultra-distance runner, public speaker, and author. He has run over 17,000km across the world’s deserts in long-distance running adventures and unsupported expeditions in some of the world’s most harsh environments including the South Pole, Siberia, and the Atacama Desert in Chile. In 2009, Ray and two fellow Canadians Kevin Vallely and Richard Weber broke the world speed record for an unsupported expedition by a team to the Geographic South Pole. In 2007, Ray starred in the documentary film Running the Sahara narrated and produced by Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winner James Moll, which follows three men as they run across the Sahara Desert in an effort to raise awareness for the drinking water crisis in North Africa. In 2015, Canadian Geographic recognized Ray as one of Canada’s Top Explorers and was also awarded the Meritorious Service Cross that is one of the two Meritorious Service Decorations gifted by the Canadian monarch, his or her Governor-in-Council, which recognizes both Canadian and foreign individuals who have carried out meritorious acts bringing benefit and honour in either military or civilian categories.

Mercedes Nicoll had a standout performance in her second Olympic Games at Vancouver 2010 where she posted the second-best Olympic result ever by a Canadian halfpipe snowboarder (male or female) when she finished sixth. During a training run at Sochi 2014, she fell more than 22 feet onto her hip and face. With the adrenaline flowing, she got up and competed. But she had sustained a concussion that forced her out of competitive snowboarding for two years. With a lot of patience and rehab, she returned to her board and won her fifth national halfpipe title in March 2016. She was Canada’s top-ranked female halfpipe snowboarder at the PyeongChang 2018 test event and then competed at her seventh world championships. Nicoll has been representing Canada in World Cup competition since December 1999, just a couple of years after she first made the switch to snowboard from skiing. She has eight World Cup podiums to her credit and twice finished fourth in the overall World Cup standings for halfpipe (2004-05 and 2009-10). Another career highlight was her fourth-place finish at the 2010 Winter X Games Europe. Nicoll has always had a drive to make it to the next competition. That was especially important after she fell during the opening round of competition at Turin 2006. She finished 27th and knew that she needed to return to the Olympic Games. She made her fourth Olympic appearance at PyeongChang 2018.

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