So, there’s no snow worth reporting in Portillo, Chile, or so I hear from the lamenting cries of ski amigos on the other side of the equatorial divide. Do not lose faith, pilgrims — it can turn in a blink. A few years ago, I arrived in Portillo on the crest of the Andes at [...]
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Just two weeks ago, Ed Stafford became the first person to walk from the source of the Amazon River to the sea–it took him 859 days to cover an ungodly amount of terrain. Along the way, in the words of my colleague Matt Power, he crossed “a landscape largely populated by anacondas, jaguars, vampire bats, [...]
A million’s a big number. Really big. Even in this age of billionaires and tetraflops, a million of anything carries a lot bang, especially if it’s one million vertical feet climbed under your own machine-like power and a million vertical feet descended via sweat equity and the hand of gravity. Skier Greg Hill, who’s on [...]
Rodrigo Baleia, who shoots for National Geographic’s Brazilian edition, has spent much of the last 10 years documenting the deforestation of the Amazon, often from the air. Seeing the rich, verdant forest destroyed to make room for cows and farms was heartbreaking. “It caused me much anguish and sadness,” he says, “because I never got [...]
Dream Result, the latest sickbird kayaking flick from Tyler Bradt and Rush Sturge nabbed best of show at the Rosenheim Paddling Film Festival in Germany a few weeks ago, and the award got to me to thinking about how gnarly the shooting for it was: In December, Sturges broke his back dropping an 80-foot waterfall [...]
Climbers Mikey Schaefer, Kate Rutherford, Brittany Griffith, and Jonathan Thesenga recently spent eight days in the jungle of Venezuela, establishing a new 1,100-foot 5.12 free climb on the east face of Acopan Tepui. The four flew to the small village of Yunek in Venezuela’s stunning and isolated Gran Sabana (the “Great Savannah”), home to a [...]
The dusty road is starting to call, the windscreen is ready for splattering of spring hatch. Wildflowers are waking up in the southern drylands. Been a week or two since it dumped in the intermountain west and it’s beginning to feel like time for a road trip. And after seeing this little piece from Ayrton [...]
The first time you swim with sharks should be dramatic. There should be storm-tossed seas, fang-like Farallon Islands jutting from the water, hungry great whites thrashing as the first mate chums stinky fish guts overboard. You’re shivering into your cold chain mail shark suit as the grizzled sea dog captain growls, “Arr! Don’t be a-worryin’, lad! I’ve only lost three customers to the sharks–this week, harhar!”
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