Track Your Life with Boyd Varty

Pride

October 31st, 2024  |  Season 4  |  12 mins 19 secs

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At sunrise, we cut the tracks of a male lion.

This episode follows our pursuit of this majestic animal through wild and dangerous terrain. Deep down, I feel my own hunter - a desire to compete and survive. I feel a million-year-old drive to find what I'm tracking. I feel how in the wild, there is no margin for error. A mistake out here can mean instant death. And this proximity to real death is paradoxically full of life.

Power of the pack

October 24th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  14 mins 55 secs

africa, boyd varty, lion tracking, londolozi, safari, story hunter, storytelling, track your life, wilderness

Our first morning of tracking in the Delta starts early - following the tracks of a lonely hyena track with lacklustre enthusiasm. Suddenly, our morning takes an exhilarating turn and the energy of the group shifts, as we find ourselves on the trail of a pack of Wild Dogs - also known as African Wolves, or Painted Wolves.

Nothing bad ever happened to a Story Hunter

August 22nd, 2024  |  Season 4  |  16 mins 22 secs

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Being lost is part of being found.
In this episode, I share an experience of being lost while tracking lions in the wild African bushveld.

Day 32 - Being Elephant

May 3rd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  11 mins 57 secs

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In late January I tracked a small elephant bull with a group of close friends. We tracked the bull for a few hours, seeing his huge tracks and into the dry riverbed. At different times a different person tracked. Each of them acquainted themselves with the elephant. As each member of the group trailed that elephant we became harmonized in perfect unfolding. We feel into intimacy with the elephant and each other. Where he had rested in the shade so did we. As we followed we started to know each other. Whatever happened after that day, there was an elephant we knew. We found him at sunset and not a word was said.