A new long distance trekking route is set to open in Africa early next year that will give backpackers and mountain bikers a new challenge to strive for. The new trail will run from South Sudan to Uganda, following in the footsteps of a celebrated explorer who first visited the [...]
A timepiece should be sturdy enough to handle the pressures of the board room as well as the top of a mountain. That’s what we had in mind when we designed this year’s line of watches and the moment has now arrived to release them into the wild. Introducing out [...]
Today will be a busy day on the world’s tallest mountain as the first commercial climbers of the year make their way to the summit of Mt. Everest. As has been the case for most of the past 60 years, they’ll all be climbing along the two standard routes up [...]
Cycling is obviously one of the most environmentally friendly modes of transportation possible, after all it uses nothing more than human power to propel us to our destination. But one cyclist has taken this Earth-friendly method of travel to a new level as he hits the road for an epic [...]
It has been a long and tumultuous spring climbing season on the world’s tallest mountain but for the climbers who have been on Everest since the beginning of April, the end is nearly in sight. Earlier today the Sherpas charged with installing the ropes on the mountain completed their work, [...]
British ocean rower Sarah Outen launched her second attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean last week, setting out from Japan on what promises to be a 6-month long, 4500-mile odyssey. The ocean crossing is just the latest leg on her 2+ year quest to circle the globe entirely under her [...]
The three climbers who were brutally attacked on Everest earlier this week have met with the Sherpas that instigated the violent incident and signed a “peace agreement” of sorts. Both sides came together in Base Camp on Tuesday with a mediator present to help facilitate an amicable resolution to the [...]
A confrontation high on the slopes of Mt. Everest turned violent this past weekend as an angry mob of Sherpas attacked a trio of independent mountaineers there. The confrontation began with a fiery exchange near Camp 3, located at 7200 meters (23,622 ft) on the mountain, but later escalated when [...]
The spring climbing season is now in full swing in the Himalaya with dozens of climbers in base camp on Everest, Lhotse and various other mountains across the region. Most of them will spend the next few weeks acclimatizing to the thin air and preparing their bodies for the challenges [...]
A couple of weeks back we told you about three adventurous outdoor athletes who were preparing to set out on an ambitious project to bag the highest peaks in each of the eight Australian states in record time. They dubbed their journey the Aussie 8 expedition and the plan was [...]