africa

Declination: Getting Tubed on the Zambezi River

by steve casimiro on May 10, 2012 · 0 comments

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Surfing river waves is typically a novelty — not quite as much of a stretch as snowboarding sand dunes, but still, not exactly J-Bay, either. This section of the Zambezi River in Zambia, however, actually gets a little sporty and throws out a lip that gives Andrew Matthews a few fun coverups. Give the dude [...]

Wallpaper Wednesday: Elephants, Masai Mara, Kenya

by steve casimiro on April 11, 2012 · 1 comment

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This week’s free wallpaper of a herd of elephants in Masai Mara, Kenya, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes. This shot is by Kevin Arnold, and you can purchase art-quality prints of it (with or without frames) through the Adventure Journal print store. 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x [...]

The Daily Bike, April 11, 2012

by steve casimiro on April 11, 2012 · 1 comment

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This is Jafta Pietersen of Prince Albert, South Africa, photographed for the ongoing series on South African cyclists called Bicycle Portraits. “I bought this bicycle form a white lady, Mrs. Sarie Orton, after she left school and she started to work. So I’ve had it now for over 40 years and she rode it for [...]

One of the Longest Wave Rides You’ll Ever See

by steve casimiro on March 14, 2012 · 3 comments

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It’s fair to say that not many surfers have ridden one wave this long. It’s also fair to say that after seeing this, many surfers might be contemplating a trio to Morocco, where Alessandro Ponzanelli styled this peeling funride like a catwalk New York fashion week. It’s one video, one wave, one surfer, two minutes. [...]

Declination: The Devil’s Pool, Zambia

by steve casimiro on February 21, 2012 · 4 comments

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The Devil’s Pool on the Zambia side of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River has both the illusion of danger and the cold-reality-of-imminent-death danger if something goes wrong. Perched on the edge of the 360-foot torrent, the pool is a deep depression in the rock just upriver of the lip. In high-water months, it’s suicide, [...]

Time Lapse Rodeo: Pollination, Storms Over Africa, and Northern Lights

by steve casimiro on February 3, 2012 · 0 comments

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This week’s time lapse rodeo combines an astounding look at the secret life of plants (unreal!), an extraordinary flight of the International Space Station over a stormy Africa, and Norway’s northern lights made especially active by the recent solar flare. This first video, from the ISS, was taken December 28 on a pass from over [...]

Wingsuiter Jeb Corliss Crashes in South Africa

by steve casimiro on January 17, 2012 · 2 comments

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Two broken legs might not seem so lucky, unless you consider the possibilities. Noted wingsuit madman Jeb Corliss decked it yesterday on Cape Town, South Africa’s Table Mountain, during a flight being filmed for HBO, falling 200 feet before coming to rest on a steep slope known as Africa Face. “He managed to release his [...]

Portfolio: Tanzania, by Aernout Overbeeke

Dutch photographer Aernout Overbeeke got his start when he was thrown out of high school. Losing the structure of academics at an early age forced hin to concentrate on his photography, and within just a couple of years he was making a living as a fashion shooter and then, a few years later, as a [...]

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The Daily Bike, January 9, 2012

While on a medical mission in South Sudan, photographer Ace Kvale’s Cessna stopped for a refuel at one of the hundreds of dirt strips that can be found throughout this part of the world. As usual, children began to appear from everywhere, from nowhere, including this boy, who rode up proudly on his Phoenix. Where [...]

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The Daily Bike, December 16, 2011

The Tour d’Afrique is a race. A 7,500-mile race. You start in Cairo. You end in Cape Town. You’re at it for four months. RAM? That’s child’s play. La Ruta? That only takes a few days! And in the former you have real, neatly paved asphalt. Nope, if you’re talking soul crushing, the now decade-old [...]

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Links We Like, December 13, 2011

LINDSEY VONN’S HIT LIST OF GREAT SKIING, NO SURPRISE, INCLUDES HER adopted hometown of Vail, but she also gives shout-outs to Heavenly and to Mt. Hood…but the latter, only in the summer (sorry, Oregon, you lose in Vonn’s book). Strangely, in this interview in the New York Times, she misses the opportunity to stroke other [...]

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Declination: Walking Across the World’s Hottest Desert

Long-distance desert walking is, by its very nature, a retro means of travel in our modern speed-and-efficiency-fixated world. When even the driest desert on earth — Antarctica — has been crossed by Toyota pickup, why bother walking? Seventy-five to 150 years ago, such epic exploratory walks were done almost regularly — most famously by charismatic [...]

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Didn’t See This Coming: Mountain Biker Tackled By Antelope

This takes “just riding along” to new extremes. Evan van der Spuy of Team Jeep South Africa was just…riding…along in a race at Albert Falls Dam in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, when he got blindsided by a red hartbeest. These large antelopes can weigh up to 330 pounds and stand almost five feet at the [...]

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Great Mountains of the World: Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro isn’t the only mountain in Africa, but its place in culture, literature, imagination, and lore is so overwhelming that no other peak from this great continent even enters the discussion. Kili looms over all, immortalized by Hemingway, enthroned as one of the seven summits, and rising 16,000 feet above the East African plains. In [...]

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The Daily Bike, September 7, 2011

It is hard to tell a true story about an entire nation. It’s harder still to tell it through the window of something so seemingly shallow as riding a bike. But Philip Gourevitch’s recent story in the New Yorker about Team Rwanda, a group of unlikely cyclists in a country that barely has enough paved [...]

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