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Teen sailor Laura Dekker arrives in Bora Bora

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Dutch 15-year-old Laura Dekker has safely arrived in Bora Bora, in the South Pacific islands, after mostly smooth sailing from Panama. This puts Dekker at about the halfway point across the Pacific Ocean. Dekker sailed her boat, Guppy, to the Galapagos Islands along the way, where she surfed for the first time and snorkeled with [...]

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Wendy Booker shatters stereotypes about explorers

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To look at Outside magazine, you’d think we were still stuck in the “golden age” of exploration, a world inhabited almost exclusively by ultra-fit young men. But that’s no longer the case. Women are climbing Everest, rowing solo across oceans, dogsledding to the North and South poles—whatever the guys are doing, women are doing it [...]

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Siblings retrace Northwest Passage journey

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Sister-brother duo Sarah and Eric McNair-Landry are about three-quarters of the way through their kite-skiing reenactment of Roald Amundson’s 1906 journey across Canada’s Northwest Passage. Having grown up with Arctic guides for parents, they’ve already logged some serious expeditions, including kite-buggying across the Gobi Desert and kite-skiing across Greenland. Their current adventure—which covers more than [...]

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Interview with an ultrarunner

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Ultrarunning isn’t just for elite athletes. A case in point is 42-year-old Northern California mom Gail Merz. She ran her first marathon at age 40, and recently completed a 100-kilometer (60 mile) race. Read on to find out how—and why—she became an ultrarunner. Armchair Adventurista: When and why did you begin ultrarunning? Gail Merz: I [...]

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Where in the world are Sarah and Roz?

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Sarah Outen’s round-the-world journey is now solidly underway, with Outen averaging about 150 km (95 miles) per day astride her bike “Hercules” as she wends her way through eastern Europe. Even a bout of food poisoning in the Czech Republic couldn’t dampen Outen’s enthusiastic outlook for long. Her blog describes bucolic scenes of horse-and-cart farming [...]

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Inside the minds of free solo climbers

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Free solo climbing is the most extreme way to climb a mountain. No ropes to prevent a fall, no packs full of gear to slow you down, nothing extraneous to get in the way of you and the rock. The recent National Geographic article about Yosemite’s current crop of free solo climbers captured the intensity [...]

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More climbers go higher, faster

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Here’s a roundup of climbing news about those who take on the globe’s highest mountains as well as others who are pushing the boundaries of rock climbing. On Everest, a team that includes a 16-year-old American girl and her father is getting ready to move from Base Camp to Camp One (located at 20,000 feet). [...]

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Freedivers go deep

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Today marks the end of Vertical Blue 2011, an annual competition in the Bahamas where freedivers descend on a single breath hundreds of feet into a watery hole. The current world record holder, William Trubridge of New Zealand, took 4 minutes 13 seconds to descend nearly 400 feet into the abyss and then hoist himself [...]

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Roz Savage takes on Indian Ocean

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British ocean rower Roz Savage began her journey across the Indian Ocean yesterday, launching from Fremantle, Australia en route to Mumbai, India. During the 4-month journey in her 23-foot long rowboat, she’ll row nearly 4,000 miles (6,300 km) through the world’s most pirate-infested waters. In addition to eluding pirates, Savage will be coping with monster [...]

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Sarah Outen begins mega-expedition

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On April 1, British adventurer Sarah Outen set off on her 2 ½ year, 20,000-mile journey around the world. Using a kayak, a bicycle, and a rowboat, she will circumnavigate the globe under her own power. It took her just four days to get from the Tower of London to France, though the English Channel [...]

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