from James Pearson
...and where better to spend them than South East Asia. Avoiding the cold and the snow, adventuring in the jungle, and eating mangos on the beach - not forgetting a little climbing. To make us appreciate the things to come even more, we spent Christmas and New year in a very soggy England, where there are definitely no Mangos - just a LOT of chocolate. Its safe to say that right now I feel like quite the glutton, but luckily Christmas comes but once a year. In addition to the usual orgy of Tonsai, we plan
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from The Adventure Blog
I missed the first video in this series when it hit the web a few weeks back while I was out of the country, but fortunately I came across the second video while reading The Goat this morning. They feature climbers Cedar Right and Lucho Rivera, who recently visited an island in Malaysia to bag a couple of peaks known as the Dragon Horns. They undertook this expedition to raise funs for the Big City Mountaineers , and managed to bring in about $4000, which was generously matched by The North Face . The rest
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from The Alpinist - newswire
On a climbing trip that was partially planned on Facebook, Luis "Lucho" Rivera and Cedar Wright put up two new routes on the Dragon's Horns on Malaysia's Tioman Island: Tanoshi Buttress (5.10R/X, 270m) marks the first recorded ascent of the Horns' north tower, and Batu Naga (5.12R 300m) climbs "one of the proudest looking lines on the entire formation" up a prominent buttress on the south tower. Wright heard about the formation from Scotty Nelson, who did the first ascent of the south tower in 1999 and ...
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from Vertical Carnival Dispatches
Hey Vertical Carnivalites! Cedar Here! As you may or may not not I was just in Malaysia for October and had great climbing trip!
After a whirlwind three day travel sequence Lucho and I found ourselves on Tioman Island staring up at the mythical "Dragon's Horns." It was hard to believe that only one of the huge jungle spires had been climbed...until we started the approach...then it made more
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Just over a decade ago, the jungle surrounding the Dragon's Horns on the island of Tioman, Malaysia, was too thick to even think about attempting a climb on the formation. Creating a path through the dense forest requires an hour of hacking with a machete for five-minutes' worth of trail. With this arduous approach plus heat, insects and rainstorms, the granite summit of Dragon's Horns is not easily attainable. The south tower of the formation was first climbed by an English team in 2000, after several ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Here's a cool project that was sent my way a few days back. It seems a group of Aussie boys have come up with the idea of driving from Hobart, Australia to Norway using nothing but biodiesel. Now that, in and of itself, sounds like a fun road trip adventure, but not necessarily all that out of the ordinary. But the four travelers don't plan on stopping at a single petrol station along the way. Dubbed "The Green Way Up," the plan is to get underway in March from the southernmost tip of Australia and the ...
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from Whipper Online Climbing Magazine
Upon recently returning from a Base jumping trip through Thailand and Malaysia with my accomplice in adventure Alex Duncan, we are happy to report that due to the necessity of having to climb great big overhanging limestone cliffs to be able to reach the exit points required to Basejump down, we inadvertantly participated in the rising combination sport known as Para-alpinism (for beginners)...
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from The Adventure Blog
Remember Alan Bate ? He was the guy I wrote about way back in March who was setting out to attempt to circle the globe, on his bike, in just 100 days. He completed that journey last week, and while he didn't quite finish up in 100 days, he did set a new speed record for circling the globe on a bike. On August 4th, still recovering from a bad bout of food poisoning that he had suffered a few days earlier, Alan rode into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, where his ride began a few months back, and ...
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from The Adventure Blog
It's no secret that I always love a good cycling adventure. Hopping on our bikes and going for a ride is one of those simple pleasure that most of us can relate to. But for some people, riding their bike is not only a way to see the world, but perhaps deliver an important message along the way. That pretty much sums up Furtemba Sherpa's approach to his cycling journey. Furtemba, who is the great grandson of Tenzing Norgay, set off to cycle the world back in 2003, with the aim of promoting world peace and
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from The Adventure Blog
I wrote about this story over at Gadling yesterday, but the Wend Blog reminded me that I hadn't posted about it here too. British professional cyclist Alan Bate is hoping to set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe by bike, but he isn't just content with breaking the old record, he wants to completely annihilate it. The current round-the-world record by bike is held by another Brit, Julian Emre Sayarer, who circled the globe in 165 days, ending this past December. If successful in his ride,
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