News, commentary, and insights on adventures, and adventurers, from around the globe.
Just two days after Colin O’Brady became the first person to ski solo and unassisted across Antarctica, the American has been joined in that exclusive club by British polar explorer Lou Rudd. Today, Rudd completed his own traverse of the frozen continent, wrapping up his journey just a few hours ago. The details of Rudd’s…
While the rest of us have been enjoying some down time with the holidays the Antarctic skiers have continued to toil away, often in poor weather conditions. That’s been the norm of the frozen continent this year, which has seen a number of the people attempting to ski to the South Pole abandon those attempts…
With Christmas arriving next week and the New Year just around the corner, I wanted to take this opportunity to with readers happy holidays for 2018 and the best of luck in all your adventures in 2019. We’ll be taking most of next week off, in part to enjoy time with friends and family, but…
If you want to get an idea of why bikepacking has become one of the fastest and most popular new forms of outdoor adventure, look no further than the video below. It takes us to the mountains of Peru where we join four riders who set out to traverse the Peru Divide, encountering some of…
As we head into the holidays, its time to look back on the year that is passed. In this case, we can do it using footage captured from GoPro cameras, some by professionals others by just GoPro enthusiasts taking the device along on their adventures. There are a lot of great short clips in this…
I don’t normally write a lot about brands and athletes partnering with one another, but when two of my favorites come together its hard to resist. In this case, I’m talking about Alex Honnold becoming a new brand ambassador for Rivian, the electric vehicle start-up that I covered for Popular Mechanics a few weeks back…
Today is December 21, the first official day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere –– at least by most people’s reckoning. That means it’s time for the winter climbing season to get underway as expedition teams are now gearing up for some significant challenges in the weeks ahead. As the rest of prepare for winter…
Recently I shared a 360º video from the Okavango Delta that allowed us to explore that environment more fully without ever having to leave home. Today, we have another such video from this spectacular region in Botswana that shares an encounter with an elephant out on the waters of the delta. The use of 360º…
One of the most useful pieces of gear that you can have along with you on any trip is a headlamp. These fairly simple and handy devices provide light when and where you need it most, and on the surface you would think that it would be easy to pick one out to take along…
Okay, so if you haven’t checked the calendar recently you may not have noticed that we are now just five days away from Christmas. That means your time for finding the perfect gift is quickly running out, although there is still some time to find the right gift for the outdoor enthusiast on your list….
