Here & There: A Canadian Geographic Travel Podcast

The owner of Wild Women Expeditions talks about the power of nature and the company of other women

Come along deep into the viking hearts of New Icelanders — from Gimli, Manitoba to Mountain, North Dakota. Two towns divided by a border, but inextricably linked by their surprising and storied Icelandic roots.

Come along through the streets of Toronto as the star of MasterChef Canada and co-founder of Oliver & Bonacini walks us through our country’s vibrant food scene

Think Canada’s western adventure culture is pretty macho? Well, yes, but that’s just part of the story. Here & There host and producer Liz Beatty tests her own mettle on backcountry peaks with Canadian Mountain Holidays. And along the way, she introduces us to some amazing women who’ve helped make mountaineering what it is today. Waiting at Canadian Mountain Holidays’ helipad, Liz has second thoughts about being whisked off to a backcountry lodge for a few days of heli-hiking. We're talking remote, fly-in, mountain backcountry west of Banff and Lake Louise, with towering peaks and glaciers everywhere. But what’s really got her fretting is these via ferratas, involving zip lines, tight roping across cavernous river gorges, scaling rock faces at 8,000 feet. She asks herself: “Is this really something I should be doing at, let's say, not 25 and with a fear of heights?” It all seemed like a better idea months before from her living room in very flat southern Ontario. Come along as Liz pushes way beyond her comfort zone, and learns firsthand what makes these mountain women tick.

Here & There host Liz Beatty takes us on journey of revelations that uncovers the other half of the story of one family’s part in the birth of Canada’s New Scotland. It’s a road trip deep into a sea-change moment happening across Nova Scotia, and to the precise intersection point of two cultures and two families that no one saw coming.