from Arc'teryx Latest News
Born in the Ohio River town of Owensboro, Kentucky in 1977, Jed Conklin began pursuing photography while studying at Western Kentucky University where he received a bachelor degree in both photojournalism and print journalism. His first photography job landed him in Pinedale, Wyoming where he was an intern at the Pinedale Roundup. Later Conklin would intern at the Concord Monitor, the Jackson Hole News and Guide and would be hired fulltime at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. In 2007 Conklin ...
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
27-year old Paul Guschlbauer was the big surprise at this year's Red Bull X-Alps competition – a non-stop adventure race over 864 km for selected athletes. The challenge is to cross the Alps from East to West as quickly as possible travelling only by paraglider or by foot. After 14 days, thousands of people followed the close duel for second place between Arc'teryx athlete Guschlbauer and Romanian Toma Coconea in the live-stream. Since 2003, the X-Alps race takes place every two years and is known as one
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from The Adventure Blog
While I've been mostly occupied with the Raid the North Extreme this week, another event was taking place in Europe that is definitely worth a mention as well. That's where the Red Bull X-Alps 2011 was taking place, which is a very unique race that is a demanding test of endurance, skill, and nerve as well. For those who haven't heard of it before, and I'm one of them, the X-Alps is an event that pits endurance athletes on a non-stop race through the Alps, starting in Salzburg, Austria and ending in ...
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from Dream Guides Latest News Blog
Later in the week saw me team up with the lovely Steph and my brothers Oli and Dom 'witness the fitness' Willett for a return to the Belvedere couloir in the Aiguilles Rouges. This is a north facing couloir descending from the col du Belvedere after a fairly mellow 2 hour skin. As there is a fixed rappel anchor at the top, lots of people abseil/sideslip the first 60m creating a deep rut. So the top 45-50 degree section is often virtually unskiable, but not quite today - junky snow where it was easy to ...
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