Sarah Outen, 26, is no stranger to ocean rowing. In 2009 she entered the record books as the first woman to row across the Indian Ocean solo. The grueling journey took 124 days to complete.
It seems the Indian Ocean row only wetted Sarah’s appetite for extreme adventures. She is now attempting to go around the [...]
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Sarah Outen - Around the World by Human Power
May 21st, 2011 1 Comment
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Featured Expedition - The An-Tiki
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
How would you celebrate your 85th birthday? If you’re Anthony Smith of London England, you’d decide to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a raft.
Anthony first dreamed up this journey more than half a century ago, but it wasn’t until recent years that he decided he’d better get going. He placed the following [...]
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Featured Expedition: Chris Foot heads to the South Pole & back
November 21st, 2010 2 Comments
The Antarctic trekking season is just gearing up and there are a number of teams trying for the pole in various ways. One exceptional attempt is by Chris Foot who is striving to be the first person to ski unsupported and solo to the South Pole and back. He’ll leave from Hercules Inlet [...]
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Featured Expedition: Frank Wolf voyages the Enbridge pipeline
August 23rd, 2010 No Comments
Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan are hiking, biking, rafting and kayaking the 1,172 km route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline through Alberta and British Columbia in order to get a first hand account of the impact the project will have.
On July 10th they cycled out of Fort McMurray, the source of the oil that will [...]
Tags: Enbridge pipeline · Frank Wolf · On the line · Todd McGowan
Featured Expedition: Margo Pellegrino paddles Seattle to San Diego
July 21st, 2010 1 Comment
Margo Pellegrino, 43, is paddling 2,500 km from Seattle to San Diego to raise awareness about four key issues facing our oceans: acidification, plastic pollution, overfishing and pollution from storm water runoff.
She left Seattle on July 3rd in her Pueo OC-1 canoe and expects to reach San Diego in August. A hundred paddlers in OC-1 [...]
Tags: Blue Frontiers Campaign · Margo Pellegrino · OC-1 · paddling · Seattle to San Diego
Featured Expedition: David de Rothschild on the Plastiki
June 20th, 2010 1 Comment
Ninety three days ago eco-adventurer David de Rothschild along with a small crew left San Francisco for Sydney Australia in one of the most eco-friendly large sailboats ever designed. Their 60 foot catamaran is made out of 12,500 plastic bottles, recycled plastic, reused cloth and reclaimed aluminum. Electricity is generated by solar panels, wind turbines and [...]
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Featured Adventure - Andrew Skurka
April 19th, 2010 No Comments
Endurance adventurer Andrew Skurka (28) is tackling yet another epic journey – skiing, rafting and hiking a continuous 7,500 km circuit through Alaska and the Yukon.
Five weeks ago, on March 15th, he set off from Kotzebue, a small Alaskan city that borders the Bering Sea and sits 50 km north of the Arctic Circle. [...]
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Featured Expeditions - Bertrand Piccard - Around the world on a wing and a ray of sunshine
December 8th, 2009 Comments Off
Bertrand Piccard, famous for being the first to complete a non-stop balloon circumnavigation of the world, is working on a new project that seems at odds with the laws of physics. Piccard, and his team of scientists, engineers, and physicists is working on Solar Impulse, an effort to create an aircraft capable of remaining aloft indefinitely without the [...]
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Featured Expeditions - Jessica Watson - Sailing around the world at 16
October 11th, 2009 No Comments
A collision with a 63,000 tonne cargo vessel would probably put most people off sailing for life. Not for 16-year-old Jessica Watson of Australia who considers it just part of training in her attempt to be the youngest to sail around the world solo. Jessica was sailing alone from Australia’s Sunshine Coast en route [...]
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