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A couple fascinating, fairly quick, reads for you this Monday. First off, the sinking of the Titanic might not just be a story of a ship hitting an iceberg. Instead, it may just be another tragic incident where money and greed trumped public safety. Why? Turns out the Titanic was on fire for days before it... Continue Reading →
El Capitan is a 3,200-foot-tall wall of sheer granite in Yosemite National Park. The first expedition to climb El Capitan did so in 47 days, the first solo attempt took 10. Professional climber Alex Honnold climbed the Freerider route in June of 2017 in 3 hours 56 minutes, solo, with no protection (ropes or other... Continue Reading →
Nestled in the Indian Garhwal Himalayas sits Janhukot, a very remote and hard to reach peak that rises more than 22,000 feet above sea level. The mountain sits at the end of the Gangotri glacier which is the head of the Ganges. The first attempt to climb Janhukot was in the 1980s when an Indian... Continue Reading →
Yes, it's an ad campaign for Hennessy, but regardless it's a great story and one that's seldom told. Major Taylor became a professional racer in 1896, at the age of 18, and won the sprint event at the 1899 world track championships in Montreal to become the first African American to earn the title of world champion. He was just the second black athlete to win... Continue Reading →
In 2017, French climber Liv Sansov set out with a very ambitious plan: to climb all 82 peaks over 4,000 meters in the European Alps. For the better part of a year, Sansov climbed, skied, mountaineered and even base jumped as she worked to complete the challenge. Along the way she ate more than 300... Continue Reading →
This is a cool French documentary from 1915 that shows the evolution of the bicycle from 1818 to the 1890s. It's cool to see the transformation to what is essentially the chain-driven bicycle we use to this day. All of the intertitles are Dutch, but Aeon translated them to English. 1. The draisine was invented only a... Continue Reading →
A group of Vancouver creatives and skiers saw a gap in streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, and Vimeo, specifically for outdoors films. So, they amassed hundreds of movies and new videos with more being added weekly and rolled them into a new streaming service just for adventure film junkies. Slipstream, dubbed "the Netflix of adventure films," includes films from... Continue Reading →
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