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Photograph courtesy Tony Di Zinno Shannon Galpin is one of ten 2013 Adventurers of the Year. Vote every day for the People’s Choice! On her most recent trip to Afghanistan in late October, human rights advocate Shannon Galpin returned a bit of the nation’s own culture. In a series of life-size photographs, the Colorado resident delivered…
Restrepo: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington Receive an Oscar Nomination For Best Documentary
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 26, 2011 Editor's Note: Congratulations to Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington for the Academy Award nomination for their documentary Restrepo. We spoke to Junger this summer about his deployment in Afghanistan's Korenga Valley, known as the deadliest place in Afghanistan at the time. Here is a look at the interview, again.Filmmakers Sebastian Junger (left) and Tim Hetherington…
Sebastian Junger on Making Restrepo, Your 90-Minute Deployment in Afghanistan’s Deadliest Valley
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 2, 2010 Filmmakers Sebastian Junger (left) and Tim Hetherington in 2007 at Outpost Restrepo—Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Photograph by Tim Hetherington Bestselling author Sebastian Junger and photojournalist Tim Hetherington, both seasoned war reporters, have just released a powerful new documentary, Restrepo. In order to show the true experience of an American solider, the pair joined the…
Adventure in 60 Seconds: This Week in Exploration
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 25, 2010 Text by Tetsuhiko Endo Here at Adventure, we have the tendency to focus our climbing expedition coverage on the largest and most dangerous mountains. In doing so, it is easy to forget that, besides Everest and K2, there are 13 other 8,000-meter peaks that can often be just as challenging to climb. The Polish team of…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Educator Khadija Bahram
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 18, 2009 Last week we announced the 2009 Adventurers of the Year, selected for their extraordinary achievements in exploration, conservation, action sports, and humanitarian work. Now, for the first time ever, you can vote for the Readers' Choice Adventurer of the Year. To help you get to know them, we are going to highlight a different adventurer daily. You…
Where Next: Iraq and Afghanistan
Touring Mess-o-potamia
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 2, 2009 When Geoff Hann led the first tourists back into Iraq last March, people thought he was nuts. Until, that is, the trip became a headline-grabbing hit and Hann booked sold-out return excursions to Iraq—and Afghanistan—departing in October (hinterlandtravel.com). Could the British guide be onto something? —Brendan Spiegel ADVENTURE: Let’s start with the obvious: Why guide…
Three Cups of Trouble: Climber Greg Mortenson’s Taliban Problem
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 17, 2009 Text by Cliff Ransom This summer Greg Mortenson’s book, Three Cups of Tea, will hit 125 weeks on the best seller list. The tale of a K2 climber who started building schools in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and its message that only education can combat the ignorance that fosters religious extremism, has inspired…
Afghanistan Declares First National Park
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 22, 2009 Band-e-Amir Lake Kara, the largest of six lakes. Photograph by Alex Dehgan/WCS; Text by Tetsuhiko Endo Thirty years of intermittent war have taken a toll on just about everything in Afghanistan, including its wildlife. Conflict and poaching have decimated a big cat population that once contained more species than Africa, including the now endangered snow…
