Documentary
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,
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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
Cycling
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
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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
Documentary
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