Last time we checked in with the Arctic Row team they had been waiting out a massive Arctic Storm in Elson lagoon off the shore of Barrow, Alaska. That was back on August 9. They have since left Elson, Lagoon and continued on their southerly journey, rowing for four days before they were forced to…
Outside Online has compiled a list of the top 25 colleges for students who want to maximize their time outdoors. Being that Outside is one of the foremost publications on matters of outdoor adventure, a list from them is pretty much the gold standard. Not to mention that they created a scoring key that covered…
On July 25, the Red Bull Stratos team sent Felix Baumgartner up to the edge of space where he jumped and free-fell from the second-highest distance ever recorded in history: 97,145.7 ft. The word on that July day was that Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team would return in August to conquer the highest skydive…
Scott Jurek has partnered with Himalayan Cataract Project and imagine1day to lead a 10-day running tour in Ethiopia. Jurek, who wrote the popular book Eat and Run and is something of an ultrarunner-celebrity, set up the trip for 14 runners to come and train with him in Ethiopia next winter from Feb. 22 to March…
In the upcoming issue of Outer Edge, an exciting story is coming out about three brothers who went mountain biking in Oman, a country just east of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. The Consulate of Oman has been on a recent push to expand tourism in the fabled and prosperous country. And a number of…
In a recent blog post, mountaineer Ben Clark dug in to some of the important questions that hit any high-risk mountain adventurer once they begin to settle down and have a family. Clark, who began climbing the big Himalayan peaks in his 20′s, including an ascent up Mount Everest’s Northeast Ridge which made him the…
The 2012 Mongol Derby, the world’s longest horse race, which spreads out over the remote steppe of Mongolia, started on Friday, August 10. Three days into the ride, four of the 34 riders have already dropped out. The Mongol derby is 1000 kilometers across Mongolia on semi-wild horses. The 35 riders come from all over…
Kilian Jornet set the world speed record for ascending and descending the Grand Teton on Saturday, August 12. He made the climb in 2 hours and 54 minutes, beating the previous time of 3 hours and 6 minutes, which was set by Bryce Thatcher in 1983. The route he took was Lupine Meadows to the…
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…
