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Former SNL funnyman Chris Elliot has just published a new book called “Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest,” a send-up of Outside Editor at Large Jon Krakauer’s famous work of nearly the same name. The book imagines it wasn’t Hillary and Tenzing Norgay who first bagged Everest’s summit, but Elliot’s adventurous and stone-crazy Great Uncle […]

If this happened to you, are you prepared? Take the quiz: How to survive a polar bear attack.
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Happily, hiking is one of life’s joys you can do your entire life, body willing.
My life to-trek list is still very long.
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Not much of a thru-hiking story, none the less I recommend this light-hearted, comic adventure.
Kintaro Walks Japan is a documentary film produced and directed by Tyler MacNiven. It is an account of MacNiven’s journey walking and backpacking the entire length of Japan from Kyūshū to Hokkaidō, more than 2000 miles in 145 days.
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Oct 15 is Blog Action Day. Bloggers are asked to post something to do with the environment…

GREEN is GOOD !!!
You see … I learned from TreeHugger.com that putting the word “Eco” in a blog post title brings in the readers. Don’t feel duped. Reading this post shows you care about the environment. […]

… you start seeing vistas like this:

It’s the vision of German airbrush-wielding photorealistic fantasy artist H.P. Kolb. His most popular creation.
hpkolb-gallery.de - the world of fantasy - Bestseller - Magic Mountain
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Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Right Brain v Left Brain | Herald Sun
Stare long enough at the bottom foot with a half-dazed, drooling drooling facial expression, and she will switch direction.
(Via Gymnastics Coaching.)

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Surfing a wave created by a calving glacier on the Copper River in Cordova, Alaska.
I don’t need this explained.

Garrett McNamara on the ins and outs of riding freezing freshwater tsunamis, GLACIER SURFING - EXPLAINED | Surfline
video on THE GOAT - Backcountry.com
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We love hikes to hot springs. But this is ridiculous …

After over six years of evolution, the concept of “jaccuzzi events” has led to the realization of a dream. …
For us, Jaccuzzi Events are parties that are thrown in unexpected and exceptional places. …

more amazing photos - Jaccuzzi on mont-blanc summit - Jaccuzzi.ch
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