Ep 44 - Imogen Furlong - Caving Expedition Leader

Imogen Furlong, Imo, has an impressive track record as a cave expedition leader. Imo broke ground leading the first expeditions to the Shan plateau in Myanmar. She's also explored the deepest cave in China, was the first to complete the deepest cave traverse in Mexico, and was part of the team who connected and surveyed the longest cave in India. Her recent cave projects have been to integrate families with young children into expeditions and develop a family expedition methodology.

I sit down to ask her what caving has taught her about resilience, how the death of her mother when she was 18 years old affected her life, and why she is working on 'food resilience' from her Scottish home.

“Caving and exploration has been a big part of my life, but it was the bereavement, through losing my mum at 18,  that opened that pathway up to cave exploration in the first place. It shaped my life considerably, and accepting death is inevitable is key to everything thereafter.”

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