New evidence from the South Pacific island of Nikumaroro points to the possibility that aviator Amelia Earhart didn’t crash in the ocean, as many think, but instead landed safely and survived for weeks and maybe months as a castaway. A research trip led by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery turned up more than [...]
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While on Sao Tomé, a small island off the west coast of Africa, Surfer Magazine editor Sam George met a kindred surfing spirit in an 11-year-old boy. Sam came home, but he never forgot the little grom. Six years went by. Sam left Surfer and had success as the co-writer of Riding Giants. But something went missing in his relationship to the sport that had nurtured him since he first paddled out some 40 years before, so he decided to go back, back to Africa to try to find the young African in which he saw so much of himself…CONTINUE>
The British Antarctic Survey has been trawling the waters of Bellingshausen Sea in West Antarctica, and BAS photographer Pete Bucktrout was there to capture their haul in these gorgeous, watery portraits of polar creatures. The Bellinghausen is one of the fastest warming seas in the world and thus is a prism onto the effects of climate change…
Dirt roads unspooled in all directions, but there were national park boundaries to the east, thunderheads and lightning to the south, and known terrain to the west. Going north was an easy decision, really, for a mission built on a whim with no more purpose than to fill in a blank spot.
Lost Adventurer and Artist Everett Ruess Found and Identified by National Geographic Adventure
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One of the biggest mysteries in the American Southwest, the 1934 disappearance of wanderer and artist Everett Ruess, has been definitively solved. Remains found on Comb Ridge in southern Utah have been positively identified as the 20-year-old free-spirited wilderness lover, thanks to a team from National Geographic Adventure.
Lest anyone question whether this is the golden age of big-wave discovery, the curtain has been pulled on yet another freakishly large, malformed cold-water beast. Called “Yeti”, this North American monster wave was surfed by a pioneering tow-in crew and documented for the first time in the February issue of Surfer magazine.
Two identification cards apparently belonging to missing aviator Steve Fossett have been found near Mammoth Lakes, California, by a local hiker, along with hundreds of dollars and a weathered black Nautica sweatshirt. Fossett has been missing since September 3, 2007, when he disappeared on a solo pleasure flight over the Sierra Nevada.
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