from The Adventure Blog
If you don't read Mikael Strandberg's blog on a regular basis, you really do need to add it to your list. Not only does he share plenty of insights into the world of exploration and adventure, he also posts some excellent stories on his own expeditions to the far flung corners of the globe. If you're not aware of Mikael's resume, he has traveled by bike from Chile to Alaska and Norway to South Africa. He has also explored over 3000km (1864 miles) of Patagonia by horseback and traveled down the remote ...
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from The Adventure Blog
One of the stories I've been following over the past few weeks has been reports of serious infighting going on at the Explorers Club , an organization that has been around for more than a hundred years and has counted such notable explorers as Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary amongst its ranks. Today, a story appeared in the New York Post that gives us a further glimpse at what is going on behind closed doors at the venerable institution. You can read the Post article by clicking here , but in a ...
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from Upskill Climbing
Here's a collection of training tidbits from the world's best climber. Adam Ondra's training regime "I train more or less just by climbing. How simple! I train on couple of small bouldering walls, where I train endurance and bouldering power as well. I rarely climb indoor with rope because there are not good walls enough in the city. The way I train depends on what I am training for. If I am preparing for bouldering, I do just lot of hard boulders. If I train endurance I do laps. I figure out usually 20
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from The Adventure Blog
A good looking new travel website launched recently, bringing good coverage to adventure destinations across the globe. The new site, entitled Switchback Travel , is already rich with content and offers articles on several destinations which will no doubt be of interest to readers of this blog as well. Amongst the stories already posted on the site are an article about hiking in the French Pyrenees , exploring the backroads of Maui , and the climbing, paddling, and backpacking options on the Norway's ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Technology and gadget site Gizmodo posted an article yesterday that featured good suggestions for gear that would take the sting out of winter cycling . For many riders, winter is a time in which they either move to a stationary bike indoors or stop cycling altogether. But as the old adage goes, "there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad gear," and with the proper equipment, you can continue to hit the road even when the snow starts flying. Among the suggestions from Gizmodo are the inclusion of snow
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from JackGeldard.com
Marmot publishes a Marmot Life Magazine every six months and the new one is out now. The magazine is a really well put together publication, which obviously has a commercial angle, being a brand magazine, but in the main focusses on high quality editorial content. The last issue had a great piece by Britains most [...]
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from The Alpinist - newswire
In September 2011, a six-man Norwegian team established two new routes on Nafees Cap, a 900-meter spire on the south side of K7 in Pakistan's Hushe Region. Sigurd Felde, Ole Ivar Lied, Henki Flatlandsmo and Odd-Roar Wiik spent twenty days putting up a twenty-two pitch route (A2/A3) while Jarle Kalland and Sindre Saether created a twenty pitch route (5.11d, A2) in six days alongside their teammates. Nafees Cap was first climbed by a Belgian-Polish team of Nicolas and Olivier Favresse, Adam Pustelnik and ...
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from daniel jung
On my Five Ten blog you find an article about INGA I did in the beginning of october in Gorges du Loup.
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from The Alpinist - newswire
S eptember 9, 2011 The staff has proofread and signed off on the cover for Alpinist 36. Art Director Michael Lorenz opens a file, hot keys "A" to change his cursor into a pointer tool and saves the files as a printable PDF. He uploads the file to the printer and continues work on the three magazines all due within the next forty-eight hours. September 16, 2011 12:15 p.m. "[expletive deleted]" - Michael Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief "[expletive deleted]" - Adam Howard, Editorial Director "[EXPLETIVE DELETED]" -
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from Climber's Blog
Keywords:
Mt. Logan,
Katsutaka “Jumbo” Yokoyama,
I-TO,
3,000-meter unclimbed south face,”,
I-TO The first ascent,
unclimbed south face,”,
immense south face,
2011 AAJ,
attractive phrase,
Canada
(Back to: Articles, 2011 AAJ) I-TO The first ascent of the immense south face of Mt. Logan, Canada. By Katsutaka “Jumbo” Yokoyama It was July 2009 when Christian Beckwith showed me a picture of Mt. Logan. Captioned “The 3,000-meter unclimbed south face,” it immediately captured my imagination. The attractive phrase was part of it, but [...]
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