Adventurer

Source: www.iht.com --- 4 days ago
Friends and admirers leading a 28-member search team for the remains of famed U.S. aviator-Adventurer Steve Fossett say they are still hopeful despite finding little more than bullet-riddled metal scrap so far. ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 2 days ago
Tributes are paid to a pioneer of adventure cycling who has died after a road crash in Greece ...

Source: abcnews.go.com --- 16 hours ago
Man travels around the world in a car powered by nothing but the sun. ...

Source: www.forbes.com --- 5 days ago
Olympic medalist discusses relay that gave Michael Phelps an eighth gold. ...

Source: www.forbes.com --- 2 days ago
The backstroker on Bank of Amerca's Hopefuls program, his swim for the oceans and the 2012 Olympics. ...

Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com --- 5 days ago
If you saw Neal Stephenson on the street, you might think he's just another geeky Seattle guy with a particularly impressive goatee. He blends right into... ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 12 days ago
Joe Sanderson left his Midwestern hometown in his 20s with a backpack, a notepad and a dream of being a writer, writes The Times' Héctor Tobar.Starting in the mid-1960s, he crossed the Pacific on a freighter, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and kept going, for two decades in all, traipsing across more than 60 countries. Everywhere he went, he kept a diary and wrote to Mom and Dad back home in Urbana, Ill. ... The diary and the hundreds of missives Sanderson wrote home tell an unlikely American adventure story. They chronicle a peripatetic Midwesterner who joked and charmed his way across five continents, and eventually fought against an army backed by his own government.Click here to read Tobar's full dispatch on the life and times of Joe Sanderson. For more on El Salvador, click here. Image: Joe Sanderson, a native of Urbana, Ill., works in a rebel camp in El Salvador around 1981. Sanderson died in April 1982, one of only two Americans known to have died while in the ranks of that country's leftist guerrilla movement in the 1980s and '90s. Credit: Collection of the Museum of the Word and Image ...

Source: www.wizards.com --- 9 days ago
The zone of mystical energy created by a battle standard grants a benefit to allies or hinders your foes. ...

Source: www.wizards.com --- 5 days ago
Champions of the gods use them as implements in battle -- and in the hand of clerics and paladins, they are as much weapons as swords are to fighters. ...

Source: www.wizards.com --- 2 days ago
At the highest levels, a suit of armor represents the thin line between being mauled by a red dragon and slipping safely out of its grasp. ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 6 days ago
A year after aviator and Adventurer Steve Fossett vanished on a Labor Day solo flight over western Nevada, friends and admirers are waging a new search for some sign of him in an area of rugged mountains. ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 6 days ago
HAWTHORNE, Nevada - A year after aviator and Adventurer Steve Fossett vanished on a Labor Day solo flight over western Nevada, friends and admirers are waging a new search for some sign of him in an area of rugged mountains. Steep... ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 14 days ago
"We were shot at, trudged through a blizzard, slowly starved, never knew where we would spend the night—or if we’d be taken into police custody." Brandon Wilson is an Adventurer and travel writer. From the Himalayas, to Mount Kilimanjaro, to the Camino de Santiago, to his most recent 2,620-mile trek from France to Jerusalem, Wilson has been in over a hundred countries and faithfully recorded his experiences in his books. He's the author of the award-winning titles Yak Butter Blues, Dead... ...

Source: www.star-telegram.com --- 6 days ago
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Source: blog.sierratradingpost.com --- 15 hours ago
Outdoorzy is reporting on a Belgian man who crossed the dry-as-a-bone Simpson Desert in Australia with no resupply and no aid. Louis-Phillipe Loncke is the first man ever to cross the world’s longest sand dunes desert, unassisted, from north to south. The journey took him 35 days. Loncke traveled the 800km (or so) towing a [...] ...

Source: www.france24.com --- 6 days ago
British explorer and environment activist Lewis Gordon Pugh has embarked on a kayak expedition from Norway to the North Pole in a bid to persuade world leaders about the dramatic effects of climate change on the Arctic. ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 11 days ago
The year was 2006. On board a Chinese railway train from Xiling to Gormo in Quinghai province an Indian traveller stood out in contrast to his Chinese co-passengers. At midnight, while he was ...

Source: www.denverpost.com --- 11 days ago
Dave Freeman, co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die," a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47. ...

Source: www.lloydslist.com --- 12 days ago
THE only gambling ship left in Port Ever-glades in Florida was arrested at the weekend at the behest of 14 crew, who are claiming $65,700 in unpaid wages plus punitive penalty wages under US law, writes Rajesh Joshi. ...