Chris Thrall

Chris Thrall was born in South-East London and is the host of the popular 'Bought the T-Shirt Podcast'. A former Royal Marines Commando, he served in the Northern Ireland Conflict and trained in parachuting and Arctic warfare and survival. In 2011, Chris wrote the bestselling memoir Eating Smoke, detailing his descent into crystal meth psychosis while working as a nightclub doorman for the Hong Kong triads. A qualified pilot, skydiver and keen snowboarder, Chris has explored over eighty countries across seven continents, including backpacking through all of North, South and Central America. In 2018, he ran the length of Britain, an ultramarathon a day for #999miles, unsupported and carrying a 14kg backpack, to highlight the issue of veterans suicide. In 2019, for his 50th birthday, Chris completed a quadruple ironman-distance triathlon. Chris has firewalked over red-hot coals to raise money to work with street children in Mozambique. He has driven aid workers to India and back by coach and scuba-dived in the Antarctic Polar Circle. In 2001, the Finnish Nation awarded Chris their Second Level Commendation on the grounds of human generosity. He has a degree in youth work and is a life coach and addiction specialist. Chris lives with his partner and son in the UK and plans to continue adventuring and charity work.