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The ponies that carried Genghis Khan鈥檚 warriors are small, tough, and skittish as hell, making the prospect of riding them for 1,000 kilometers seem downright insane. American cowboy Will Grant couldn鈥檛 resist, so he entered the Mongol Derby鈥攖he longest, hardest horse race in the world鈥攄etermined not just to finish but to win.
Globe-trotters: we've got you covered. Our 2012 Travel Awards honor the best destinations on seven continents鈥攅verything from idyllic beach escapes to camping safaris in Kenya to a mountain-bike expedition in Tibet. Plus: 国产吃瓜黑料-endorsed outfitters, adventure insurance, and more.
This is the second in a three-part series excerpted from Laurel Holland's forthcoming book, Spindrift. Her father, Bill Holland, was killed while attempting an unroped descent of Slipstream, the 3,000-foot frozen waterfall in Alberta, Canada's Jasper National Park. His body was discovered 21 years later, a mile from the estimated site of his fall.
Even if protesters resist evacuation orders and police actions, they鈥檒l still face the difficulty of living outside in North Dakota
Whatever happened to an outdoorsman鈥檚 sacred right to exaggerate? In the age of digitized adventure, the fish that got away is gone forever.
I often write about Everest but it takes a lot of words and sometimes, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. So here are two “pictures” you might find interesting.The first is a short animation I created a while back showing the typical Everest south side…
The following dispatch is from extreme kayaker,聽Ben Stookesberry, a member of the聽First Ascent kayak team. They are currently on an expedition in Africa to make a first descent of the聽Lukuga River.Rusizi River: The Great ConnectionSix months ago, when trip leader Hendri Coetzee first mentioned a “waterfall-strewn river that flows…
Before any know-it-alls start complaining about the absence of Edmund Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, or Amelia Earhart from this list, let me make a distinction between 鈥渆xplorer鈥 and 鈥渁dventure traveler.鈥 An explorer has historically been someone who attempts to do something that no one has done before (or plunder indigenous people…
There are certain skills every 国产吃瓜黑料 guy should possess. For this, the first installment of our four-part fundamentals series, we address the basics of adventure.
