Little known fact: There are hundreds of water-accessed first ascents to be notched along the eastern seaboard. And Maine鈥攚hose sinuous coastline is home to thousands of craggy islands and inlets with faces that are rarely, if ever, climbed鈥攊s an epicenter. No one knows this better than renowned adventurer and author Mark Synnott, who has been pioneering boat-accessed climbing in the region. This past summer, he invited his old friends Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington Downeast to see what it鈥檚 all about鈥攁nd we tagged along for the adventure.
The point is this: adventure is what you make it鈥攁nd sometimes it hides in plain sight. Want more? We teamed up with Land Rover Defender to highlight聽the country's most inventive聽adventures. See them all on our microsite, The聽New Rules of 国产吃瓜黑料.