First annual Cuyahoga Falls Kayak Race along the Cuyahoga River in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Big shout-out to the participants, volunteers, and spectators, who numbered in the hundreds.
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Kayaker Ben Stookesberry, who’s featured on the cover of this month’s Men’s Journal, had his expedition cut short last week when he was stopped and held by a team of rogue elements of Colombia’s rebel FARC army, which for decades controlled large swathes of the country and made kidnapping a cottage industry.
Stookesberry and an international team of whitewater paddlers were in the midst of the first descent of the Río Apaporis, which snakes 700 miles through the Colombian rainforest and drops over seven distinct waterfalls. The paddlers were among the first adventurers to … More
33 year old Tomass Marnics from Latvia has put together a team of the world’s best extreme kayakers. Together they plan to descend the legendary Saryjaz River. The expedition will take the adventurers directly to the “Eyes of God”, a mystical cliff face reminiscent of an enormous human face, in the no-man’s land between Kyrgyzstan and China.
Sharks are at the top of the food chain. The ocean predators follow their instincts. The good news is that humans are not on their diet list. However, like us, they make mistakes, too.
Swimmers and surfers are not sharks’ favorite meal. They prefer sea lions, sea turtles, fish, whales, and seals.
The majority of shark attacks occur near the shore, in the surf zone and sandbars, because … More