In his forties, Rob Lyon took a kayak journey along the coast of British Columbia, around Vancouver Island, one of the few remaining wild seashores in North America. Stretching from Port Hardy, British Columbia to an inlet around the bend of Cape Scott, the expedition took him 102 days, according to an article in TopKayaker.net….
Texan West Hansen is about to embark on The Amazon Express, an expedition to kayak the Amazon River from source to sea in record time. His most recent update, which can be found on The Amazon Express Blog, has him driving a big van through Lima, Peru en route to the Amazon’s headwaters in the…
The 19th annual Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race occurred over the weekend in Leadville, Colorado, and this year’s winner was Austrian Alban Lakata. The Leadville 100 is a 104-mile-long, high-altitude race in the Colorado Rockies. It starts at 10,152 feet and in the duration of the race, mountain bike riders climb to 12,424 feet. Lakata…
Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between M23 militia men and DRC state forces has increased strains on an already endangered population of Mountain Gorillas. Recently, however, both sides of the fighting forces were able to put differences aside to let rescuers and park rangers of the Virunga National Park scour the vast…
The Grand Teton and the Teton National Park have aspired many a hiker, biker, and backpacker, but who would have thought it would be home to a triathalon? The Teton Triathlon, as it has been dubbed, was invented by David Gonzalez, according to Jhnewsandguide.com. From beginning to end, it is 67 miles. To start, Gonzalez…
Within the span of a week, two surfers have been attacked by sharks near Reunion Island, a French island in the Indian Ocean. Located east of Madagascar, off the coast of Mozambique, the island boasts a number of surfing hot spots, the waters of which have also become home to a burgeoning population of tiger…
We have been covering the Arctic Row team for about two months now, and our most recent posts have detailed how they faced an uncommonly powerful Arctic storm. As a result of the storm, the rowers have had to pull back from the open Arctic Ocean. They did this because they got word that the…
Diana Nyad is going to disembark on her fourth attempt to swim 101 miles through shark and jelly-fish infested waters, from Cuba to the U.S. If she is successful, she will be the first person to have made the 101 mile swim. It will take her about three days to make it, a time in…
There are 6,624 state parks in the United States, according to the National Association of State Park Directors. California alone has 278 state parks. And so with that many parks, one would have much difficulty in trying to see them all. However, a new list from Adventure Journal, a publication that knows a thing or…
In the week after nearly 30 climbers reached the summit of K2, a new storm system rolled in, trapping climbers near the summit. Al Hancock, who originally set off to the Karakoram range in Pakistan to climb Broad Peak but switched over the K2, was one of the climbers on the top. He posted the…
