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24-Hour Climbing Competition Creates Die-Hard Participants
In 2006, Andy Chasteen and his friends, Adam Peters and Steven Charles, came up with the idea to create a 24-hour rope climbing competition at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Arkansas. The idea was conceived...
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Snake and Noodles with the Karen
I wake to shouting. Beyond my mosquito net, the flies form black constellations onthe concrete walls of the room. We are somewhere near the Thai-Myanmar border, staying in a small Karen refugee...
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Recycling My Own Pee in Northeast Thailand
Dragging my cumbersome bags through Mo Chit bus station (confusingly named Chatuchak) searching for the elusive gate number 130, I found myself thinking I really am quite fried at present, and a week...
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Learning The Indian Way
Travelling in India has its moments; those days where the tide of people is rushing against you, shop wallahs rip you off, and that rickshaw driver has no more idea of where your hotel is than you do....
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My Brief Affair With Morocco
“You’re traveling alone?” He shakes his head with a smirk and observes my fair skin and light hair. “Morocco is going to be a pain in the ass for you.” This isn’t the first, or second time I’ve heard...
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Paul Robinson’s Quest to be The Best
The leaves have changed from shades of green to a potent array of red, yellow, and orange. Although they fall in heaps that cover the grass, many still cling to the branches with desperation, not...
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Rising to New Heights
Entering the Nepalese Himalayas from Kathmandu is like being teleported into a different world. Disembarking from our 13-passenger STOL (Short Takeoff/Landing) plane — the only kind that can land on...
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Flip-Flopping Around Machu Picchu
Accountants tend to have a reputation for being desperately dull and boring. Not so Sandro Bardelli. A true vagabond at heart, Sandro has backpacked his way around six continents, and visited places...
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Hit by a Motorbike in Kankan, Guinea
“…Trying not to break, but I’m so tired of this deceit, Every time I try to make myself get back up on my feet, All I ever think about is this, all the tiring time between, and how, Trying to put my...
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Diving into the Night
My sister, Sarah, has always been competitive. It’s tough growing up with four younger siblings, and especially tough when one of those siblings is an adrenaline junkie. So when we heard of night...
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Oktoberfest: Days in a Beery Haze
Already one tent and several liters in, waiting in line to be thrust high into the sky over the Theresienwiese, I’m torn between assuring Georgia, an Italian girl I just met, that she’ll most likely...
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When Travel F*cks You Up
Oh, man. I’ve been a mess over the past few weeks. I’m absurdly tired, I get headaches all the time, my muscles ache, and my eyes have turned this totally attractive shade of zombie grey. I’m having...
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Indian Massage Therapy Part One: There’s Something in My (Third) Eye
The Ayurvedic treatment center in Jaipur looks almost modern; a striking contrast to the chaos and rubble that characterizes the rest of the city. Jesse, Eduardo, and I decided to get massages, and on...
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Oahu: Land of Outdoor Adventure
Many of you might be surprised to find that Oahu, Hawaii boasts an enthusiastic culture of rock climbers. These diehards climb wet, slippery, and painfully sharp boulders in miserably hot and humid...
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The smoke of wood fires dulls the sunrise, silhouetting the spires of Angkor Wat as if in an impressionist painting. These temples, the soul of the Khmer nation, form a gorgeous backdrop for the tale...
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My Brief Affair With Morocco
“You’re traveling alone?” He shakes his head with a smirk and observes my fair skin and light hair. “Morocco is going to be a pain in the ass for you.” This isn’t the first, or second time I’ve heard...
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Rappelling Waterfalls in Ecuador
I’m in the back of a small car, driving down a bumpy road and headed for thick jungle. I look at the girl sitting next to me — a solo traveler from Greece I met last night — and we exchange a nervous...
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Roof of My World
On the morning of our departure from Ama Dablam Base Camp, I had recovered from my bout of food poisoning to the point where I could eat and, more importantly, walk again. This was just as well,...
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A Hitchhiking Adventure in 1Malaysia
“You are NUTS. It’s impossible. Nobody picks up strangers in Malaysia!” That’s what I got from each one of my Malaysian friends when I announced my intention to hitchhike from Penang to Kuala Lumpur....
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A Wild Winter
A year earlier, my friend Ed left his squat in Brighton, UK, and ambled off to Scandinavia to live in the forest. While influenced by primitivist ideas of withdrawing from civilisation and...
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