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The dream of circumnavigating Svalbard ended Thursday July 29th by a Polar Bear attack.

Updated: Svalbard kayakers attacked by Polar Bear

The two Norwegians Sebastian Plur Nilssen, 22, and Ludvig Fjeld, 22, had a nightmare awakening on Svalbard Thursday. Plur Nilssen was dragged out of the tent by a Polar Bear. His expedition partner managed to shoot the bear.The two Norwegians where on an expedition to circumnavigate Svalbard in kayaks.

Dragged 40 meters from the tent

Laura Dekker will sail in two weeks

Ice-luck will play a factor in the Arctic

Rowed in to Guiness Book of Records

New world record for solo in small boat

Laura Dekker: Court will decide next week

The Russians are heading for port

Erden Eruc update: On the Indian Ocean

Mongolia and Russia in two canoes

Henk de Velde is sailing in the Bering Strait

Russians ready to be the first in to the NEP

ExWeb interview with Bastien Demange

Two kayakers have set off around Svalbard

Bad weather going south for the Seagals

EXPLORERSWEB AT A GLANCE

Interview with K2 survivor Wilco Van Rooijen

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Marco Confortola: Reflections on Heroism

ExWeb interview with Cecilie Skog

Best of ExWeb 2008: K2, Gerard McDonnell

Chhiring Dorje Sherpa: Alternative route K2

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ExWeb special: A magic mountain named K2

Dragged 40 meters from the tent

Wayne Maynard’s flight across the North Pole

Monsoon rain in Gilgit Baltistan

Heavy rain caused hundreds of foreigners in Gilgit Baltistan KKH to be stranded and over 400 have died. Landslides have caused road closures, especially on the KKH....

Yanni Piveropoulos to cross Bolivia salt flat

Tracking Explorers: beyond SPOT - meet Solara

Sebastian Copeland: Kite record and filming

Fishtail/Zermatt record rescue on Annapurna

ExWeb interview with Sara at Montagna.org

Greenland ski wrap-up: New kite world record

Cape Cornwall to Cape Horn with Noonan

ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Pak wrap: K2 first, then Mars says Giuseppe

ExWeb Special: China - 2 years after

La Niña's parallel world: The Poles

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LATEST RATNA PARK & SOUQ

Pumori November/December by scn

Fellow team member sought by nasz

Ocean Rowing Crew Members... by Ian Couch

Ocean Rowing Crew Wanted by Ian Couch

Do we have the right? by Andy

OCEANS LATEST NEWS

Updated: Svalbard kayakers attacked by Polar Bear

Teen sail update: Dekker is free to sail

Challenging ice conditions in the Arctic

Girls around Britain: Setting a new record

Jury-rigged Italian finishes circumnavigation

Teen sailing update: Nerve wrecking week for Dekker

North Pole Yacht Race: Russians in trouble

Erden Eruc update: On the Indian Ocean

Canoe through Mongolia

Never Ending Voyage: Deadliest Catch area

North Pole Yacht Race: Russians in Murmansk

ExWeb interview with Bastien Demange: To cross Canada by canoe

Polar bear country: Kayaking round Svalbard

Girls around Britain: Frightening times

Teen sailing update: Abby's own story

Abby heading for the US

The race around the North Pole: Russians vs Norwegians

GB Row Race 2010: Girls only

Teen sail update: Court holds Dekker on shore

Mars Ocean Odyssey update:: Last day at anchor

Abby successfully rescued

In the wake of Bligh: Normality and knock downs

LATEST: - Abby is fine

Abby update: fly-by scheduled early morning local

Contact lost with Abby Sunderland

Round Australia: So close for Thomson

Teen sailing update: Abby back in business

Roz Savage Pacific Ocean row: Welcomed by 5000

FEATURES

Teen sails ExWeb Circumnavigation special: What is around the world ?

Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Sarah Outen, Indian Ocean crossing

ExplorersWeb Year in Review: The Oceans

World records broken at Freediving World Championships

17-year old Ryan Langley preparing for a sail around the world non-stop

Mick Dawson and Chris Martin finished their row across the North Pacific Ocean in 189 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes

Atlantic Rowing Race update: The teams

Laura Dekker update: The Judge ruled again

HumanEdgeTech final: expedition power, the latest buzz

HumanEdgeTech special: expedition power

INTERVIEWS

Challenging ice conditions in the Arctic

ExWeb interview: Ousland to sail round the North Pole

ExWeb interview with Ian Couch and Ben Thackwray (final), “Rowing and skiing require the mind to push the body”

Teen girls sail update: Abby Sunderland in Cape Town, “Have high expectations of yourself and go for it”

ExWeb interview with Colin Quincey, “Plan, plan, plan and then give it your best shot”

ExWeb interview with Shaun Quincey, “As long as I beat Dad’s record on the Tasman Sea I am happy”

GPS vs. sextant, a sailor's tale of times new and bygone

ExWeb interview with Geoff Holt, "I'll be returning as master of a sailing yacht, despite my disability"

Part 1 interview with expedition tech guru Tom Sjogren, final "we are the kind of animals who thrive on adversity"

Part 1 Interview with expedition tech guru Tom Sjogren, "doing and knowing is what separates us most"

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Sarah Outen, Indian Ocean crossing

CLASSIC

LATEST EXWEB NEWS

Monsoon rain in Gilgit Baltistan causes landslides, KKH closure and casualies

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner K2 summit push report: "Again, it was not meant to be"

ExplorersWeb Week in Review

ExWeb Interview with Sebastian Copeland, “filming goes on top of the demanding physical requirements”

Boulder climber Ryan Waters after Caucasus plane hijack attempt: "All is OK"

Wayne Maynard’s flight across the North Pole

Pakistan wrap-up: GI summits, action not yet over on K2

Iceland update: Crossing lava and glacier fields

Hidden Peak (GI) summits: US, Canadian, Russian and Czech climbers on top!

Heads up: Yanni Piveropoulos to cross Salar de Uyuni

K2 summit push aborted--climbers down from C4

K2 summit push--Tuesday: Tough going to C4

ExWeb interview with FTA crew: "Don’t expect tea served to you in your tent at C3 in the Karakoram"

K2 summit push--Monday update: D-day tomorrow?

Wayne Maynard flying to the North Pole

ExWeb interview with Eric McNair-Landry, “I’m a kiter; I want to see the limits of this sport pushed”

American Trey Cook from K2, hours before summit push: Why Petar died

Pakistan wrap-up: K2 summit push plans delayed--in spite of forecasts?

Charlie Frew’s Trans Eurasian off-road Expedition

J'Accuse: "Summit Sweeper" Arian Lemal strikes again on Gasherbrum II

Mongolian trek update: Ripley Davenport evacuated and back home

ExWeb interview with Christopher Mike (final), “SAR is not there to support people who take foolhardy risks”

South African adventurers celebrated at FEAT

Ama Dablam spring 2010: Russian debrief and reply to Philippe Gatta

Pakistan wrap-up: Gasherbrum summiteers on double bets, K2 teams on their marks, Russian girls top-out Amin Brakk

ExWeb interview with Christopher Mike (part 1), “Just about every type of terrain is encountered on the route across Iceland”

ExplorersWeb Week in Review

K2: Bulgarian climber lost in C2

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