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Happy Earth Day.
The Walt Disney Studios will celebrate Earth Day 2009 (April 22nd) with the debut of “Earth,” the first feature-length nature documentary from its new production banner, Disneynature. …
Follows the epic migratory journeys of four animal families as well as the earth’s journey around the sun and the massive influence it has on all life on the planet, from the Arctic spring to the Antarctic winter.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Trailer of the 2008/2009 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. The “highlights” of the original festival held in the FAll of 2008.
Much of it is an advertisement for the sponsors. But a thrilling advertisement.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Sadly I missed the World Tour this year.
(via The Adventure Channel)
One of Backpacker Magazine’s blogs, The Daily Dirt, has been my favourite in recent weeks.
Here’s another interesting post:
… In a new 30-second spot, the familiar hands demonstrate apps to replace a compass, identify bird species, and spot poison ivy. Add those apps to the already impressive list including the Google Earth and GPS systems and you’ve got a handheld, do-just-about-anything, outdoor genius machine. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Daily Dirt – IPHONE APPS HIT THE TRAIL
Still, I’ll be taking my iTouch on the trail with me this season. Mainly for listening to Audiocasts and Audiobooks during the long nights in the tent.
Where I hike there’s no free WiFi. So many of the apps will not work since the Touch has not phone service.
… When Les Stroud announced his retirement from “Survivorman” last year, wilderness-TV fans shed some tears, but we all hoped he’d be back. We’re happy to report the time has come: Les Stroud returns to Canadian TV this week with “Survive This,” in which eight teenagers with varying levels of outdoor skill are thrust into the Northern Ontario woods to survive with no tools outside of their clothes. …
Daily Dirt – SURVIVORMAN RETURNS—THIS TIME, FOR THE KIDS
I’ve got some teenagers I want to nominate for next year’s series.
YTV – Survive This
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The Pulse blog’s Steve Howe will be watching any TV show related to wilderness safety. Check his recent post: EASTER VANISHINGS AND RESURRECTIONS – A quick survey of the missing, the found, and the lucky
I can hardly wait for this:
PBS TO AIR KEN BURNS’S “THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA,”A NEW SIX-PART SERIES ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL PARKS, IN FALL 2009
Click PLAY or watch Ken Burns interviewed on YouTube.
Entertaining!
Its day three of Trail Magazine’s attempt on Mt Kilimanjaro via the Machame route, and things are starting to get tough. The mountain is getting seriously spectacular but the air is getting thin and exhaustion is kicking in. As midnight on the last day approaches, will it be a glorious dawn on Africas Highest mountain or a whopper of a disappointment? Join Trail Magazines Simon Ingram to find out…
Click PLAY or watch Part 2 on YouTube.
official website of TRAIL and Country Walking magazines – Live for the Outdoors
To see a 6min highlights clip of Day 1 and Day 2 of the Machame Route, click through to The Adventure Blog.
best hike – Kilimanjaro information page
Trailer for the 2009 Sheffield Film Festival held 27th Feb – 1st March in the U.K.
Excellent editing.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via The Adventure Channel)
It’s the world’s highest free-standing mountain, one of the seven summits and the highest peak in Africa. While a host of celebrities gear up to set foot on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief, TRAIL magazine – the UK’s best-selling hill-walking magazine – has just got home from the mountain.
Click PLAY or watch the promo video for the climb on YouTube.
official website of TRAIL and Country Walking magazines – Live for the Outdoors
To see a 6min highlights clip of Day 1 and Day 2 of the Machame Route, click through to The Adventure Blog.
best hike – Kilimanjaro information page
Brakeman & Grasshopper posted a succinct summary of their 2175mi 2008 thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.
Congratulations guys!
intights from March 2008. Some nice trekking footage. Great music.
Compilation of short video clips and some stills taken on Trek from Lukla to Gokyo, over the Cho-La, to Gorak Shep, Everest base camp, then with an Ascent of Island Peak (Imja Tse). Includes additional photos/footage of Kathmandu and flight to/from Lukla.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (8min)
The rest of this Aussie travel blog posts are well worth a browse.
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