Wingsuit Flying Banned In Chamonix
Chamonix, the French mountain town at the base of Mont Blanc, rightly considers itself the extreme sports capital of the world.
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[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/eIZTMVNBjc4] There is a moment in Chasing Ice, the new documentary film, when environmental photographer James Balog almost loses it, and rightly so. He is perched...
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UPDATE: Search For Bounty Captain Called Off, And His Decisions Questioned
It was no hurricane movie out on the Atlantic last night. In a harrowing situation reminiscent of The Perfect Storm, three crewmembers of the tall ship replica HMS...
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Space Dive: Baumgartner Does It!
After seemingly endless delays, "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner did it on Sunday. The Austrian adventurer rose 128,100 feet to the edge of space in a helium filled balloon...
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Q&A: Laurence Gonzales On Life After Survival
Laurence Gonzales knows the world of survival—the stories, the science, the survivors themselves—as well as anyone alive today. His latest book, Surviving Survival (W.W. Norton), tells the...
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Wingsuit Flying Banned In Chamonix
Chamonix, the French mountain town at the base of Mont Blanc, rightly considers itself the extreme sports capital of the world: Rock climbing and paragliding in the...
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The Distinct Smell Of Outer Space
So, get this: Outer space—the final, adventurous frontier—smells funny.This is one of those things that's not only surprising, but never really even occurred to anyone, as far...
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Video: Living Off The Grid In Alaska
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/Iq0rZn8HFmQ]Let's see—Jack London, Joe McGinniss, John McPhee, Jon Krakauer to name just a few. Some pretty fine storytellers have all been fascinated by the question of what...
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MountainFilm: Telluride's Global Perspective
Telluride, Colorado, over Memorial Day weekend is one of the nicer places to be on the planet. The old mining town at the end of the box...
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Is This Man The Coolest Surfer Ever?
Surfing's always been cool, right? (It might be considered the opposite of in-line skating, which was once cool and now most definitely isn't. See Majka Burhardt's personal...
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