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Adventure Sleeping at a Mountain Resort in Germany
by Amanda Arnold | November 30, 2011
Do you wish to dangle from great heights while you snooze?
Yes, you do. And you might as well do it in Bavaria, Germany, at an adventure resort called Waldseilgarten. Here at the mountain retreat, you will have three sleep-up-high options. They are as follows:
Right now, six guys in a row boat are headed for the North Pole.
If all goes as planned, they’ll reach the Magnetic North Pole by water. Why by water? Because of all that ice-melt in the Arctic. The expedition is meant to highlight the effects of global warming.
How a bug out bag works – Being ready to escape at a moment’s notice
by Marshall Brain | February 16, 2011
In the movie “Salt” there is a scene where Evelyn Salt has escaped for the first time and returns to her apartment. She only has a minute, so she reaches into a chest full of clothing and pulls out a backpack. In the movie this backpack has magical powers (as do many things in the [...]
Here’s a nice video explanation of three different types of snow shoes – aluminum tubular frame, plastic and aluminum angled frame: How to snow shoe in the Sierras – with a discussion of clothing as well: More on the clothing (avoid cotton) and use waterproof hiking boots: What to do when you fall down: One [...]
Once upon a time, like about 100 years ago, getting to the South Pole – deepest Antarctica – was hard. Very hard. An expedition in 1907 failed to reach the South Pole. The pole was finally reached in 1911 according to this page. Fast forward to 2010. In the same way that Mt. Everest was [...]
World Record #151 – the tallest climbing wall in the world
by Marshall Brain | October 26, 2010
Normally when people talk about “climbing walls”, they are talking about fairly modest structures. This one from the Independence of the Seas cruise ship is 43 feet tall: Here is an indoor wall, and toward the end of the video there is a shot of the tower that goes 35 meters high: The previous wall [...]
Back in 2003, Aron Ralston became famous for cutting off his own arm. The arm had become wedged under a boulder in a remote area of Utah, and the only way to save himself was to cut it off and go for help…
Let’s say that you have always wanted to fly. But the cost of getting a pilot’s license ($10K) and buying a plane ($100K) is hard to swallow. Is there a cheaper way to get in the air?
The answer may be a paramotor (also known as a powered paraglider), costing less than $10,000 and needing no license…
Skydiver Prepares to Break the Sound Barrier
by Charles W. Bryant | April 1, 2010
I written about this guy before, Felix Baumgartner. He’s pretty much the baddest dude on the planet when it comes to jumping out of airplanes. He also does a lot of BASE jumping – like when you jump off a building or say the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil. I wrote about Baumgartner when he glided 22 miles, with a pair of what looked like jet wings attached to his back, clear across the English Channel. Wicked cool.
This time around Baumgartner has his sights set on a couple of records — the highest jump at an astounding 120,000 feet, and the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall.
Perhaps you have seen one of the “interactive adventure videos” posted on YouTube. This video is typical of the genre: You watch the video and then you get to make a choice about what will happen next. A typical interactive video like this might have a total of 10 segments, some of which create a [...]
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