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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]







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