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.
Toothpaste and Imaginary Soup: An extreme survival story from 1963. Helen Klaben somehow survives 49 days in the Yukon backcountry, despite multiple broken bones.
“I’m Sure the First Ascentionists Got By With Worse”: Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak take on Denali’s Cassin Ridge.
Tradition Versus Bureaucracy: Indigenous reindeer herders in Sweden bump up against some unique government headaches. How exactly do you persuade your tax agency to let you deduct your reindeer-herding dog?
Herding reindeer can make some modern paperwork a little tricky. Photo: Shutterstock
On Family Travel: A father and his two sons explore Iceland and then Greenland, and its nightlife: “There are maybe 30 folks in here, few of them women, nearly all of them catastrophically drunk.”
Six Mystery Islands: A round-up of six legendary islands and whether any of them might have some basis in reality.
The Value of Climbing: Dave Pickford explores the value of climbing through three lines of inquiry: the value of climbing to those who choose to climb, the value it has to the rest of humanity, and the value it could bring to people in the future.
Felipe Camargo prepares for a climb. Photo: Red Bull
A Brazilian Climbing Odyssey: Felipe Camargo climbs the largest cave mouth in the world at PETAR, in the interior of São Paulo.
From Marrakech to the Mountains: Photographer Daniel Wildey heads to Morocco to begin a project documenting the world’s greatest trekking peaks on film. Here, he writes about his journey, from arrival in the souqs of Marrakech to a heavy snowstorm as they begin their climb.
