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Natural Wonders: China’s Zhangye Danxia

Great works of art take time. The Zhangye Danxia...
February 16, 2021

Top Expeditions 1970-2020, #8: Alone Across Australia

“There’s a madman with a gun!” Ben Knight of...
December 24, 2020

Alice Morrison Finishes Moroccan Trilogy

Last week, after 68 days and 1,400km across the...
November 5, 2020

Explorers’ Diseases

This year, we learned just how quickly a disease...
November 2, 2020

Exploration Mysteries: The Disappearance of Peng Jiamu

Today, a modest stone memorial withstands the vicious winds...
October 30, 2020

Alice Morrison Begins Part III of Her Expedition Across Morocco

On August 20, Alice Morrison started her 1,400km expedition...
August 26, 2020

Roland Banas Completes First Summer Crossing of Death Valley

Roland Banas has completed the first solo unsupported crossing...
August 18, 2020

How to Travel the Sahara Safely

Spanning over 5,600km, from the shores of the Red...
August 6, 2020

10 Indigenous Explorers

In the history of exploration by outsiders, tales of...
June 30, 2020

Alice Morrison: 2,000km Across the Sahara

On February 12, a couple of weeks before the...
March 31, 2020

Legends Series: Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton differs from our previous legends, in...
August 22, 2019

Retracing the First Human Migration

In 2013, writer Paul Salopek set out on an...
June 14, 2019

ExWeb’s Links of the Week

Here at ExWeb, when we're not in the outdoors,...
May 11, 2019

Unsupported Solo Death Valley Crossing – Trip Report

In late 2015, when I (Roland Banas) read on...
January 7, 2019

Top 10 Expeditions of 2018: #3: First Winter Crossing of Tasmania

Over the last 12 months, ExplorersWeb has documented incredible...
December 29, 2018

Death Valley Thwarts Solo French Trekker

Four days ago, Frenchman Roland Banas began an unsupported...
December 19, 2018

Unsupported Solo Death Valley Crossing to Support Homeless Children

Starting December 14, 2018, Roland Banas will walk across...
December 5, 2018

Adventure Psychology: In Conversation with Dr Nathan Smith

In a recent interview, Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner said...
September 30, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: 500 Miles to Nowhere

The premise of bivy-paragliding is simple, even if the...
September 22, 2018

Book Review: Searching for Tao Canyon

In the spring of 1970, around the time that...
July 25, 2018

Alone through Gobi. Be like a Honey Badger

Alone through Gobi. Be like a Honey Badger. By Dominik...
July 16, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: Eclipse

In 2015, Canadian photographer Reuben Krabbe traveled to the...
July 15, 2018

A Human Powered Seven Summits

As a teenager, Jelle Veyt was living on the...
June 14, 2018

Weekend Warm-Up: Into the Empty Quarter

In the first of ExWeb's new Weekend Warm-Up series,...
May 18, 2018

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