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Exploration Offline – The Explorers Museum
Most of the accounts you have read recently – of daring adventures and jaw-dropping journeys right across the furthest reaches of the globe – exist only in an online and, let’s face it, somewhat fleeting form. It’s a slightly sad fact about the world we’ve come to inhabit today that the most gruelling tales or most fantastical physical accomplishments are only flicked through briefly on the web browser; one eye on the photography, the other...
Adventure News | A Week In Review
The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge is drawing to a close. The challenge consists of a 3,000-nautical-mile unsupported race from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The two man team called Locura Rows the Atlantic are the winners, the Atlantic Polo Team came in second, followed by the Row 2 Recovery team. Sixteen teams from around the world embarked from the Canary Islands on the 4th of December to take on each other and the ocean. The...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
A new year and the adventurous are thinking big. Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpenière are in the latter stages of their return journey from the South Pole. Their next depot, at the top of the Beardmore is around four days away. After using up most of their rations, Ben recently made the difficult decision to call for a resupply, which changes the status of their expedition. Ben Saunders explains the situation in this remarkable update....
Last Chance to Paddle
Emil Carlsson talks about the deadly threat facing South America’s ‘Grand Canyon’ As a Swede living in Scotland working as a firefighter for NHS Highland, it’s fair to say Emil Carlsson already lives a pretty interesting existence. But this Inverness-based expatriate also happens to be a very proficient and thoroughly tough white water paddler too, having worked on turbulent rivers all around the world including his native Sweden, Costa Rica, Scotland, Nepal, Morocco, Uganda and...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
The adventurous continue to walk out of their front doors and set off on expeditions, even with Christmas just around the corner. After almost two months on the ice, on their journey to the South Pole, Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere from the Scott Expedition are nearing the half way mark. The Willis Resilience Expedition are also well on their way, with just under 100 miles to go. The expedition sees nineteen year old Parker...
Adventure News – A Week in Review
Winter has crept in and whilst some regular adventurers are using the colder months to recover, fatten up, perhaps write some books and start planning their summer explorations, a few of the most hardcore are ploughing on with their expeditions as the snow begins to fall. Alex Hibbert commences The Dark Ice Project in just a few days. We caught up with him to ask him about the expedition, which aims to make an unsupported...
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