from The Adventure Blog
One of my favorite stories to follow over the past year or so has been Alan Arnette's ongoing quest to scale the Seven Summits . Alan has always done an excellent job of writing about his adventures and his ability to convey a good story has allowed us all to feel like we've joined him on those mountains. Now, with seven of the eight peaks behind him, and only the elusive Denali off his list, Alan has settled down to talk about his efforts to not only climb the tallest mountain on each continent, but also
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from The Adventure Blog
Earlier today, National Geographic announced the launch of its new Global Exploration Fund. The initiative is designed to research funding for conservation and exploration efforts in regional centers around the planet. The first of those regional programs will be in Stockholm, Sweden, where an advisory board consisting of a group of explorers and scientists will review projects to receive possible funding. The new Stockholm office will be led by Executive DirectorStefan Nerpin, who, along with his team,
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from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
The North Wales Bolt Fund has yet again received valuable cash donations from the users of two local climbing walls.
Money from the Beacon Winter Aggregate subs (each competitor pays a fee of £2 which goes to the fund) and the Indy Wall’s DMM key ring donations, plus the general donation tin have added up to [...]
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from Happiegrrrl Climbing
Last year, Swanky the van was brand new, to me. I bought it from a cop, and my mother(who was a nurse) once told me “Eye doctors can't see; ear doctors are deaf, and psychiatrists are crazy.” Well, I figure that line of thinking probably goes beyond the boundaries of the medical field, if you know what I mean. Now I know there are plenty of optometrists with 20/20 vision, just like most police are law-abiding citizens, but if the lies this guy told me about that van weren't a crime, I don't know what
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from The Adventure Blog
While we're on the topic of ocean rowing today, here's another story of interest. Australian Ben Turner hopes to become the youngest person to row solo and non-stop across the Pacific Ocean when he sets out from Peru next year. He'll also undertake the journey to raise funds and awareness for a cure forCystic Fibrosis as well. Ben expects his voyage to take approximately 275 days to complete, covering 13,000 km (8077 miles) in the process. He'll start at Lima Peru and make is way towards theMarquesas ...
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from Sean McColl
This past weekend was the World Cup in Amman and unfortunately I could not go. The cost of a flight to Amman was about the same as a flight back to North America and without the funding of a federation like Austria, France, Slovenija or Japan, I couldnt justify the cost of going. I instead [...]
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from The BMC News
Money, money money! All climbers need money. But where can they get it from? Does anybody know? Well Caroline Byrne does. Her son Connor has just received an award from his local County Council.
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
Now, with only 3 days to go until I leave for Nepal; and with everything such as packing, acquiring medicine, filling out visa forms and even cleaning my boots still dirty from Lenin, still to do, I used some intuition and decided to utilise some precious time writing another truly outstanding blog. I then scrapped that idea and wrote the one below instead. Since the expedition to Lenin, fortunately I have managed to regroup, and now partly understand the reasons why the expedition wasn’t as successful
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from The Adventure Blog
While the Fall Himalaya season pretty much wrapped up last week, I thought it was worth sharing one more story from the big mountains. Last Wednesday, a team of seven wounded servicemen, representing the Walking with the Wounded organization, reached the summit of Manaslu, which at 8150 meters (26,739 ft), is the eighth highest mountain in the world. The seven soldiers were climbing as part of the Himex squad and were using this expedition as a training exercise for a planned attempt on Everest next ...
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from Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton
21-year old tackles Baruntse and Everest for clean water and climate change Article featured on Climb For Change: http://www.climbforchange.com/blog/2011-10-02/21-year-old-tackles-baruntse-and-everest-clean-water-and-climate-change While many 21-year old guys are in the process of figuring out where they’re going in life, here’s a young man who has figured out his direction – up! Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton, is aiming to become one of the youngest Britons to climb the highest mountain on earth. And
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