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Expeditions

Cycling to the South Pole

Cycling to the South Pole

Kate Leeming has a dream to bicycle across Antartica.To help make it a reality, she has gone on training expeditions on multiple continents, and collaborated on new technologies. Four years after she started preparing, it’s go time. Sometime in the next two years, Australian endurance athlete Kate Leeming

Motorcycle Meditation: Riding Across an Ice-Covered Lake Baikal

Motorcycle Meditation: Riding Across an Ice-Covered Lake Baikal

Lithuanian motorcyclist Karolis Mieliauskas recently embarked on a frigid expedition to cross Baikal alone, with nothing but his bike to see him through.

No Barriers Can Stop Blind Kayaker and Climber Erik Weihenmayer

No Barriers Can Stop Blind Kayaker and Climber Erik Weihenmayer

Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind person to climb Everest and to complete the Seven Summits. In his new book, he tells the story of trading mountains for rivers as he set out on a quest to become the first blind person to kayak the Grand Canyon. But if the

Virgin Earth: Mike Libecki Heads Back to Greenland to Climb Massive Tower

Virgin Earth: Mike Libecki Heads Back to Greenland to Climb Massive Tower

Standing over 1,000 feet taller than Yosemite’s El Capitan, the tower that Mike Libecki, Ethan Pringle, Keith Ladzinski and Andy Mann are hoping to climb over the next month is the kind of thing most climbers dream of. In a remote corner of Greenland, they’ll battle the

Going in Circles: Freya Hoffmeister and Her Plan to Kayak Around a Continent

Going in Circles: Freya Hoffmeister and Her Plan to Kayak Around a Continent

Sea kayaker Freya Hoffmeister has made a name for herself by completing successively larger and longer circumnavigations: first Iceland, then Australia, eventually even South America. Earlier this spring, she upped the ante once again, setting out on her wildest expedition yet. I have Freya Hoffmeister on the line, and I

Adventurers Taking 'Vanlife' to a New Level with Sailing SEARCH Project

Adventurers Taking 'Vanlife' to a New Level with Sailing SEARCH Project

Sofia Pineiro and professional paragliding pilot, Thomas de Dorlodot, are about to leave their home (but not their friends), to sail around the world on their latest, and arguably biggest, SEARCH Project yet. They’ll be finding the most beautiful places on the planet to paraglide, dive and surf, have

French Slacklining Team Walks Longest Highline Ever

French Slacklining Team Walks Longest Highline Ever

Three members of a French slacklining team made history two weeks ago. Balanced on a narrow piece of webbing 300 meters high, they set a new world record for the longest ever highline, suspended in the sky as they inched their way along for 1,662 meters. On June 9