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Coming Soon: Villanueva O’Driscoll and the Dodos Do Greenland

How to describe the Dodos? A band of merry...
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Bird Missing For 140 Years In Papua New Guinea Appears On Film

A month-long expedition in Papua New Guinea last September...
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Heinz Stucke, Cycling’s World Traveler, Makes It To Netflix

Forget about Instagram's travel influencers — Heinz Stucke has...
The 'Horonuku', the land yacht that broke the wind-powered land speed record.

222 Kilometres Per Hour — By Wind Power Alone!

By anyone's standards, 222kph is speedy. If the only...
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Weekend Warm-Up: ‘NEOTENY’, or The Joys of Playing in the Snow

If you don't have a silly grin on your...
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Ukraine Manages To Hold Its Climbing Championships In Kyiv

For a country under constant bombardment from an invading...
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Will Bosi Displays Preternatural Climbing Skill With 8B+ Flash, 8C In Two Tries

For most boulderers, flashing even one climb a grade...
Barneo

Will Iconic North Pole Station Barneo Ever Open Again?

If you’re planning to head to the North Pole...
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Fascinating Deep-Sea Creatures Discovered Off Western Australia

Scientists on an Australian research vessel found stunning deep-sea...
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Apple Watch Ultra Now Works As A Dive Watch

Just a few decades ago, many certified scuba divers...
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World’s Oldest Living Land Animal Pre-Dates The Theory of Evolution

Charles Darwin and his crew had just embarked on...

The Dinosaur Known as ‘The Destroyer of Shins’

In 2014, paleontologists discovered a new type of ankylosaur,...
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UK Archaeologists Discover “Richest of its Kind” Medieval Necklace

Archeologists working in the small English village of Harpole,...
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New Deep-Diving Women’s Record: 247 Metres!

Karen van den Oever has spent a lot of...
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New Find Prompts Controversy Over Whether Pre-Humans Used Fire

Paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer Lee Berger announced on...
View of Mount Civetta, Dolomites, from Rifugio Vazzoler mountain hut.

Climbers Meet Accidentally When Two Big New Routes Link Up in Dolomites

One elegant new route on Torre Trieste — a...
worst journey

‘The Worst Journey in the World’ Becomes Graphic Novel

Exactly 100 years after its original publication, the greatest...
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Possible 10a Sport Climb: Adam Ondra and Jakob Schubert Try ‘Project Big’

A few days ago, Adam Ondra suggested 'Project Big'...
Isidora Llarena skies towards Cerro Arenales

A Three-Week Traverse of the Northern Patagonia Icecap

Climbers Isidora Llarena, Rebeca Caceres, and Nadine Lehner recently...
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Ancient ‘Zombie’ Viruses Revived From Siberian Permafrost

If you're tired of scientists stoking fear about deadly...
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Italians Bag First Ascent of Sato Pyramide

When Stefano Ragazzo and Silvia Loreggian first discovered the...
remando en solitario

Spanish Adventurer to Row to Antarctica. And That’s Just the Beginning

Lots of explorers embark on Antarctic expeditions, but few...
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Kristin Harila Named European Adventurer of the Year

Norway's Kristin Harila barely missed her chance to set...

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