I’m very happy to announce that I’m working with AFAR Magazine. For those unfamiliar with the magazine, AFAR is a relatively new travel magazine (the first issue was published in 2009) that has during its short existence won numerous Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, which are pretty much like the Oscars of travel media awards.
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Shattered: The Mind of a Driven Climber
Shattered is ana artistic 5 minute video profile of Steve House that took filmmaker Tyler Stableford six months to make (Outside just posted an article about the making of Shattered).
Easter Island Statues ‘Walked’ Claim Scientists (Video)
Most people have heard or seen pictures of the moai — the 1250 to 1500-year-old statues with giant heads on Easter Island built by the Rapanui people — and have at least a sense of the mystery surrounding them.
Massive Avalanche Near Everest Camps
At 10 a.m. local time massive a avalanche tumbled of from the shoulder of Nuptuse and swept across the path between camps one and two. When I say massive, I’m not kidding. Check out the lead photo on Outside Online’s story, which shows how the massive cloud of falling snow dwarfs the tiny dots of black that are the camp.
Links of the Week: April 8 – 15
Awesome content without having to click all over the interweb.
I watched this video about 9 times this morning. Pure inspiration.
The Seven Links Project: Seven of my Favorite Blog Posts
Lead image provided by ChrisGoldNY on Flickr
Tripbase recently started a project that has spread throughout the travel blogosphere. They asked a few bloggers to summarize seven categories of old blog posts, highlighting some of their most interesting content. Then, each blogger then nominates five more bloggers to do the same.
The Winner of Matt-Gibson.org and PlanetGear.com’s Lonely Planet Photography Guide Giveaway
During the months of May and June Matt-Gibson.org and PlanetGear.com got together to give away a copy of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Photography. Today I rounded up the names of all of the entrants, plugged them into Random.org, and found our winner.