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Sir Edmund Hillary would have been 102 years old today

2021.07.20 /
Sir Edmund Hillary Quotes ยป
I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

We didnโ€™t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest.

You donโ€™t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things โ€” to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything youโ€™ve got, is a very pleasant bonus.

Lifeโ€™s a bit like mountaineering โ€“ never look down.

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Ben Carlin circumnavigated the globe in an old amphibious truck he christened “Half Safe”

2021.07.20 /
Ben Carlin in Montrรฉal, 1948

Ben Carlin in Montrรฉal, 1948 (Source ยป Wikipedia)

In 1948, with dreams of fame and fortune, a young Australian mining engineer and his American wife set out to circumnavigate the world, by land and sea, in a single vehicle.

The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin named Half-Safe. It was a mechanical cross-breed that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn’t much good for either.

Ben Carlin and his wife Elinore started their adventure from Montrรฉal, sailing across the Atlantic Oceanย  to the Sahara Desert.

10 years later, upon returning to Montrรฉal on May 12, 1958, Frederick Benjamin Carlin became the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle.

The extraordinary adventure had covered 17,780 km (11,050 mi) by sea and 62,744 km (38,987 mi) by land, crossing three oceans and passing through 38 countries over five continents.

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Neal Moore is paddling across a changing America, from Oregon to New York

2021.07.17 /
Neal Moore (Source ยป ExplorersWeb)

Neal Moore (Source ยป ExplorersWeb)

Martin Walsh, ExplorersWeb ยป

I reached Memphis halfway, at 3,750 miles, on November 3 [election day]. The vast majority of the map Iโ€™m plying on this journey is solid red. Minus a few blue dots between Portland, Oregon, and NYC.

Funny, I just paddled past my very first Republican flag on a boat on the Ohio River the other day. It featured simply an elephant and the word โ€œRepublicanโ€. It is the first Republican banner Iโ€™ve seen on this expedition that didnโ€™t scream Trump. Or include a Confederate Flag on the same pole. Or shock with catchy expletives.

I think we are coming right as a nation. I took a ride over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge, the longest continuous bridge over water in the world, as the inauguration played out live. As Amanda Gorman delivered her poem of hope,ย The Hill We Climb. And what I found on the streets of New Orleans later that day were kids of color in motion, laughing and pulling wheelies on their bikes along lower Bourbon Street. The city, the nation, I myself, could breathe.

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Book ยป Van Living 1971 ยป London to India and back

2021.07.16 /

Anyone who grew up in the 1970’s in North America or Europe will know that van life is nothing new.

Months after meeting, Gay and Jack Reineck outfitted a VW van in London and set out on an adventure. Living in the van for the next 12 months, and 25,000 miles, they travelled through Europe, Turkeyยญ, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, to India, and back.

Available from Rufus Guides, the couple have written about their adventure.

A travel diary, journey of discovery, and personal memoir, VAN LIVING 1971 is the story of two young designers beginning a life together.

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Along the way they created an enduring love that would last for more than 50 years.

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Video ยป Trekking Assiniboine ยป from Sunshine Village to Mount Shark

2021.07.15 /

Trekking from the Sunshine Village (AB) ski resort near Banff to Mount Shark (AB) along the Alberta (AB) / British Columbia (BC) provincial border.

Rick McCharles at Best Hike calls this one of the world’s ten best.

The folks in this video did the hike in 4 days. Best Hike recommends 6 days.

This area is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage Site which includes the contiguous national parks of Banff (AB), Jasper (AB), Kootenay (BC) and Yoho (BC), as well as the Mount Robson (BC), Mount Assiniboine (BC) and Hamber (B.C.) provincial parks.

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Cycling the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh

2021.07.08 /
Steve Silk on the Great North Road

Steve Silk on the Great North Road (Source ยป The Guardian)

Steve Silk, The Guardian ยป

With the smell of the North Sea in my nostrils, I feel a long way from central London, where my journey began amid the tangier aroma of delivery driver diesel. My plan was to go in search of the old road between London and Edinburgh: the one that had served the mail coaches, witnessed marching soldiers and highway robbery, and had an ancient and evocative name: the Great North Road.

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Over the last 300-odd miles Iโ€™d been pretty faithful to the old road โ€“ or at least as faithful as you can be while avoiding dual carriageways and speeding drivers. The key is to find stretches where the new has been built next to the old, rather than on top of it: an orphaned mile or so at Tempsford in Bedfordshire, Stilton in Cambridgeshire or Cromwell in Nottinghamshire. On these forgotten high streets I find it remarkably easy to visualise a time when the mail coach was the king of the road โ€“ the horsesโ€™ hooves clattering and the guard blowing his horn.

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Two men from New Zealand plan first unsupported crossing of Antarctica

2021.07.08 /
Gareth Andrews (left) and Richard Stephenson (Right)

Gareth Andrews (left) and Richard Stephenson (Right)

Devon Bolger, New Zealand Herald ยป

A New Zealand doctor and his brother-in-law are attempting something thatโ€™s never been achieved in Antarctica before โ€” the first unsupported crossing of the icy continent.

Richard Stephenson, 40, from Dunedin, and his brother-in-law Gareth Andrews will begin the 2600km journey with little more than a sled and some skis.

They are expecting it to take about 110 days and will start in November next year.

The pair will begin at the edge of the ice shelf and make their way across the continent, to the other ice shelf, by skiing while dragging their supplies in a sled.

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Video ยป Wave Of Change, a short movie highlighting eco-friendly travellers sailingย the world on a sustainable catamaran

2021.07.07 /

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Bahia de Huatulco, State de Oaxaca, Mexico. October 2020. Professional surfer Damien Castera joined Caroline, Corentin, and Guรฉnolรฉ on board the now well-known โ€œNomade des Mers,โ€ a catamaran currently sailing around the world in search of low-tech innovation, and a pioneer in developing sustainable and affordable technologies.

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