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Climber Sasha DiGiulian, 19, Makes First Female Ascent of Era Bella, 5.14d, Spain – Beautiful Photo
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 8, 2012 
See more photos in our Extreme Photo of the Week gallery. “While climbing a hard route, everything else fades away. I am only thinking about the movement in front of me, the next sequence, what I am holding on to, and my breath,” says 19-year-old climbing phemon Sasha DiGiulian, seen on Era Bella, graded 5.14d,…
Spain: How to Run with the Bulls, An Old-Timer’s Secrets Revealed
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 13, 2010 Writer Tetsuhiko Endo is reporting from Pamplona, Spain, where the running of the bulls continues until Wednesday.Anyone can run with the bulls during the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain. Show up at 7:00 a.m. with a pair of running shoes and you can put yourself in front of a couple of tons of…
Spain: Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls – An Eye-Witness Account
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 9, 2010 By Tetsuhiko Endo To a man of spirit, cowardice and disaster coming together are far more bitter than death striking him unperceived at a time when he is full of courage and animated by the general hope. –Pericles, Funeral Oration to the Athenian People during the Peloponnesian War It’s six a.m. in Pamplona, the sky…
World Class: Spain – The New Old Thing
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 5, 2009 Ever since ecotourism took off in the early 1990s, European travelers have helped to spread the movement across the savannas of Africa and the jungles of Central America. Today they’re starting to look closer to home, and with good reason. Some of the most sustainable lodges on the planet are rooted in Old World ways.…
