A few days ago I crawled off the plane to England in a state of total exhaustion after nearly a month in Vietnam and Laos filming a program for the BBC. The show, due to air on BBC2 this month, tells the story of two women driving a section of the legendary Ho Chi Minh [...]
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Photographer and climber Cory Richards was evacuated by helicopter from Everest Base Camp yesterday with what at first appeared to be altitude sickness but is now more likely to be pulmonary embolism, blockage in his lungs, likely from a blood clot. Richards, who is on Everest shooting for National Geographic and The North Face on [...]
This week’s free wallpaper of bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska, is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes, for the iPhone and iPad, and for common Android sizes, too. This shot is by Ami Vitale, and you can purchase art-quality prints of it (with or without frames) through the Adventure Journal print [...]
Filmmakers love to use quotes from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, from Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now — you might have heard of it) to Nick Waggoner (Solitaire, from Sweetgrass Productions). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. In the case of this short film, We Were Wanderers on a Prehistoric Earth, it absolutely does — [...]
We’re a funny couple to watch. She, all of five feet and 99 pounds, blithely swings her skis down steep mogul runs with apparent amnesty from the laws of gravity. Trying gamely to knit near misses and miraculous recoveries into a line that at least looks intentional, my 200-pound carcass hurtles down slopes with the [...]
It is arguably the most dangerous climbing on the planet, conducted in the harshest, most brutal conditions and in the death zone of elevation where the margin for error if infinitely small, and yet the mountaineering world in the midst of a renaissance of high-altitude winter climbing. There’s less daylight, more cold, more snow, more [...]
There’s a reason it’s called the backcountry. And though that’s mostly to differentiate it from “frontcountry” — the otherwise nameless, roadbound zone where most of us congregate — the term also connotes at least some promise of wilderness. As such, we’re more than happy to cede it to the wild animals that call it home, [...]
Wallpaper Wednesday: New Zealand Dew
Solar-Powered Catamaran Makes 1st Circumnavigation
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Street Artist Pastes Healing in Navajo Nation
Dirtbag Gourmet: Margaritas with Climber Kelly Cordes
Links We Like, May 16, 2012
Shelter Co. Is A Sweet Way to Camp
Fracking, Congress Endanger America’s Rivers
The Daily Bike, May 15, 2012
Declination: Dancing With Unexploded Bombs in Laos
The List: 10 Famous Bears
Links We Like, May 15, 2012
Why You Should Row Across the Atlantic
Gear Review: Chris King Coffee Tamper
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