When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. To nourish your adventure fix, here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week.
One Mistake and You Lose 50 Places: Red Bull’s multi-sport adventure relay, Dolomitenmann, is back. It combines four unique disciplines: mountain running, paragliding, mountain biking, and whitewater slalom. It kicks off with a casual 12km run up 2,000 vertical metres.
Feeling Sleepy?: Putting an ‘adventure’ twist on the bedtime story, podcasts and meditation apps are increasingly using travel stories to lull listeners to sleep.
The Thai Cave Rescue: Four years after the miraculous rescue of a Thai football team from a flooded cave, there is a Netflix series, a feature film, and a National Geographic documentary available to watch. Outside asks, did any of them get it right?
A cave diver takes the plunge. Photo: Mikhail Vedyokhin
Mountain Literature: This year’s finalists for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature have been announced. Take a gander at these six excellent books.
Arctic islands that (maybe) don’t exist
Ghost Islands: Last year, we covered the potential discovery of the world’s most northern island, and the controversy over whether it was new, or even an island. Adventure Journal takes a fresh look at the ghost islands of the Arctic.
The Ocean Film Festival: An offshoot of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the Ocean Film festival started in Australia in 2012 with the hope of inspiring people to explore the sea. There is a program of seven short films including Circumnavigate, a film following Brendon Prince’s attempt to paddleboard around Britain.
Photo: Circumnavigate
Hidden Himalaya: A beyul is a sacred sanctuary for Buddhists. These mythical hidden valleys are folded into the Himalaya and revealed only at times of great strife or calamity, and only to those who are worthy.
