News from the world of exploration and adventure
ExWeb posted an update from the Karakorum yesterday with the news of the first 8000m summits of the season and more teams arriving on K2 and Nanga Parbat. The big news is that Dodo Kopold had topped out on both Gasherbrums, reaching the top of GI along with Italians Roby Piantoni and Marco Astori and … Read more
“The Long March” stage of this year’s Gobi March staged desert race put on by Racing The Planet is over, and the results are in. After a long, and grueling 79 km (49 mile) stage, the top of the leaderboard remains unchanged. South African Ryan Sandes retains first place, with Siu Keung Tsang of Hong … Read more
National Geographic has added yet another excellent online resource to their stable of websites. This time it’s in the form of Top.com which offers up a very impressive set of topographic maps of North America. The site, whose tag line is: “Get map. Get connected. Get going.” takes Geo’s proprietary topographic map data and mashes … Read more
I posted this story on the Primal Quest website earlier, but thought it might be of interest here as well. America is home to some of the most amazing environments on the planet. The country is blessed with abundant and diverse natural resources from coast to coast, but the environments in the Northern Rockies, the … Read more
Roz Savage continues her Trans-Pacific row and is now 18 days into her second go at making an attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean under her own power and solo no less. You’ll recall that she set out back on May 25th, departing from San Francisco with the intention of rowing to Hawaii. Over the … Read more
The Walrus Blog, the official blog of The Walrus Magazine has conducted an interview with Lincoln Hall who suffered a severe case of altitude sickness on Everest back in 2006, and was left for dead, before he was found and rescued by several climbers, including Dan Mazur and Andrew Brash. Hall recently released a book … Read more
ExWeb posted another good update from the Karakorum with the news that teams are moving quickly on K2 and the Gasherbrums. First, on K2 the word is that the Norit Team has begun fixing ropes to C3 after spending the night in Camp 2 yesterday. They’ve been making good, steady progress thus far, but admit … Read more
Just a quick note on the conditions of the course for the upcoming Primal Quest Expedition Adventure Race which gets underway in just 12 days now. I just published this report on the PQ site with news from the field on several issues that could impact the course. First, as mentioned yesterday, the snow continues … Read more
There is a cool new adventure travel website that has just launched called Adventure Trip Magazine that I’m excited to be a part of. Wade Heflin of Outdoorzy fame put the site together and invited myself a few other bloggers to be contributing writers in what we hope will become a hub of information on … Read more
To celebrate National Trail Day, which took place over the weekend, National Geographic Adventure has updated their website with a list of their 16 Best Trails. The trails a are broken down into categories and displayed in a slick fashion using Flash. For instance, under “Weekend All-Stars” you’ll find The Art Loeb Trail in North … Read more
