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Winning the Dakar: Marc Coma on Motorcycling 3,100 Miles Across South America
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 4, 2011 Photograph by Marcelo Maragni, Red Bull Content Pool We usually don’t pay much attention to motor races, but the Dakar is not just any race. Originally known as the Dakar Rally and tracing a wilderness path from Paris to Senegal, it has long been known as one of the grandest, and most dangerous motor races…
Biking Legend Danny MacAskill: “I have always looked at the world as a giant playground” (Video)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 21, 2011 Danny MacAskill – "Way Back Home" from dave on Vimeo. By Tetsuhiko Endo; Photograph courtesy Danny MacAskill In 2009, Danny MacAskill was a 23-year-old Scottish kid working in a bike repair shop while spending his free time doing rather extraordinary stunts on two wheels in the scenic cities and countryside of Northern Britain. Then he…
Swedish Free Diver Annelie Pompe on What She Loves About Oxygen Deprivation (Interview)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 11, 2010 By Tetsuhiko Endo; Photograph by Stephane Bailliez The Scandinavians have long been known for their polar exploration so it came as a surprise to us when a Swedish woman named Annelie Pompe snatched the new free diving world record in the Variable Weight Apnea class in October. The smiley 29-year-old rode a weighted sled 126…
127 Hours: Director Danny Boyle Says You’d Cut Your Hand Off, Too (Interview)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 4, 2010 By Mary Anne Potts; Photographs by Chuck Zlotnick, Fox Searchlight For his new film, 127 Hours, British director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) takes on the story of Aron Ralston, the then-27-year-old hiker who, in 2003, was canyoneering in Utah’s remote Blue John Canyon when his hand became pinned under an 800-pound boulder. He had…
Mountaineer Edurne Pasaban: Co-Queen of the 8,000-Meter Peaks?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 23, 2010 This spring, Korean Oh En-Sun and Spaniard Edurne Pasabán became the first women to join the ultimate boys' club—climbing all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. However, it wasn't long before doubts began to surface regarding whether Oh made it to the true summit of Kangchenjunga. Writer Tetsuhiko Endo tracked down Pasabán at her home in the…
Olympics 2010: Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler – Interview, Video, More
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 19, 2010 We have been huge fans of snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler for a while now—so much so that we made her one of our Adventurers of the Year in 2008 for her decision to take a year to snowboard in the backcountry (watch a video of her in action). During yesterday's Olympic halfpipe competition, Bleiler nailed her…
ALIVE! Survivor Nando Parrado on the Spirit of a True Survivor
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 27, 2009 Nando Parrado’s story is familiar. You’ve heard it, seen the films (Alive!, and Stranded!), read the books (also Alive!, and Parrado’s own account, Miracle in the Andes), but it bears repeating. It is simply that astonishing. On October 12, 1972, a Fairchild 571 twin-engine turboprop flown by the Uruguayan Air Force and bound for Santiago,…
Freeskier Kristi Leskinen is a Superstar, Officially
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 4, 2009 Text by Christian Camerota Kristi Leskinen has skied all over the world, throws rodeo 720s, almost went pro in wakeboarding, and has graced the pages of everything from FHM to ESPN the Magazine. And tonight at 8 pm EST, ABC aired the finale of her latest project, The Superstars, a reality show that pairs Hollywood…
Freeskier Kristi Leskinen is a Superstar, Officially
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 4, 2009 Text by Christian Camerota Kristi Leskinen has skied all over the world, throws rodeo 720s, almost went pro in wakeboarding, and has graced the pages of everything from FHM to ESPN the Magazine. And tonight at 8 pm EST, ABC aired the finale her of latest project, The Superstars, a reality show that pairs Hollywood…
Interview: John Huston, First American to Ski to North Pole Unsupported
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 29, 2009 Text by Tetsuhiko Endo At 5:30 p.m. on April 25th, after 54 days of skiing, John Huston, 32, and Tyler Fish, 34, reached the North Pole and became the first Americans in history do so unassisted and on skis. ADVENTURE caught up with John Huston yesterday as he relaxed in a hotel room on Oslo, Norway, waiting to…
Interview: John Huston, First American to Ski to North Pole Unsupported
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 29, 2009 Text by Tetsuhiko Endo At 5:30 p.m. on April 25th, after 54 days of skiing, John Huston, 32, and Tyler Fish, 34, reached the North Pole and became the first Americans in history do so unassisted and on skis. ADVENTURE caught up with John Huston yesterday as he relaxed in a hotel room on Oslo,…
Interview: James Hooper on Continuing Rob Gauntlett’s Legacy
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 28, 2009 Writer David Vann caught up with Brit James Hooper, who shared the Adventurers of the Year award with Rob Gauntlett for their ambitious 26,000-mile journey from geomagnetic pole to geomagnetic pole last year (read the feature article). Tragically Rob and his good friend James Atkinson were killed in a climbing accident in the French Alps…
Interview: James Hooper on Continuing Rob Gauntlett’s Legacy
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 28, 2009 Writer David Vann caught up with Brit James Hooper, who shared the Adventurers of the Year award with Rob Gauntlett for their ambitious 26,000-mile journey from geomagnetic pole to geomagnetic pole last year (read the feature article). Tragically Rob and his good friend James Atkinson were killed in a climbing accident in the French Alps…
Q+A: Nicholas Kristof: To the Ends of the Earth
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 5, 2008 From the front lines of Afghanistan to the jungles of Cambodia, Nicholas Kristof goes the distance for the dirt. Text by Paul Kvinta; Photograph courtesy of Nicholas Kristof Nicholas Kristof figures he can do the most good in places other journalists typically avoid, far-flung spots like Darfur, western China, and the islands of Vanuatu, writing…
K2 Survivor Wilco van Rooijen, In His Own Words
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 7, 2008 Text by Kirkpatrick ReardonPhotograph by Ed Viesturs Read previous NGA K2 accident coverage >> Clear skies and a new moon greeted Dutch mountaineer Wilco van Rooijen at the summit of K2 on Friday, August 1. That was before deteriorating visibility and an ice-avalanche turned that calm night into one of the deadliest in the history…
Herzogian Antarctica: Pink Floyd Seals and a Suicidal Penguin
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 22, 2008 Text by Ryan Bradley Werner Herzog’s latest film, Encounters at the End of the World, recently opened nationwide. It is a documentary about Antarctica—specifically about McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation (which helped fund the film), and the people living and working in this community of 1,100 at the bottom of the planet.…
