
Everybody needs a vacation once in a while, but few of us have the time and money to just up and leave when we want to.
If you enter Peregrine Adventures’s free 20 Trips in 20 Days contest, you just might get that chance this year.

Everybody needs a vacation once in a while, but few of us have the time and money to just up and leave when we want to.
If you enter Peregrine Adventures’s free 20 Trips in 20 Days contest, you just might get that chance this year.

In the past two days I watched the two most nauseatingly insane free-climbing videos that I’ve ever seen, and they couldn’t be more different.
The first is an amateurish production made by two Russian structure climbers who break in to, and climb, the second tallest building in the world in Shanghai. The footage is simple, shot from GoPro cameras on the climbers’ heads. The effect, though, is an extremely intense as they ascend above the clouds.
The second is a manicured production documenting Alex Honnold — who is according to many the best (if not the most fearless) free climber in history — ascending El Sendero Luminoso without any ropes and completing what some are calling the most difficult free-climb in history.
In January I visited winter Outdoor Retailer (OR) 2014 — the biggest trade show for outdoors and travel brands in North America — in search of the newest, most innovative, products that help people to travel longer and better with less baggage. This list contains the most innovative, versatile, travel-friendly products that I found.
He’s only two, but he’s already better than I am. This kid as a bright future!
A base jumper decided to ride a mountain bike off of the Bolivian Death Road…on Friday the 13th, no less.
This seemingly flawless plan didn’t work out quite as well as he expected.
In the end he was OK.
Well, that’s a relative statement, “injuries included fractures in his forearm and cut tendons in his knees.”

By Anne-Marie Weeden
As the raft bucked underneath us, a cool spray from the churning white water all around us hit me straight in the face. I held on fast and instinctively slid deeper into the boat, trying not to lose my paddle in the process. This was one of the last rapids of the day and we were determined not to flip.