Archive for the ‘Rock Climbing & Mountain Climbing’ Category
The sport of highlining is a new one, a wobbly one and a tense one. Here we meet Ryan Robinson who has been in the sport for years.
We go to his favorite (and least favorite) spot for a 285-foot-long slackline. This is such a difficult spot because the surrounding rock is slanted and off-camber, making it visually very difficult to keep balance. Still, it’s beautiful as hell.
I work as a travel guide in Thailand and we asked our good friend Neu, AKA ‘Monkey Man’, to do a bit of freestyle demonstration for our crew while visiting Pranang Beach in Railay…within seconds the entire beach was captivated. Even the monkeys were mystified.
When Jennifer Gurecki and Meghan Kelly summit the snow-capped peak of Mt. Kenya, they’ll have one thing on their minds: heat. And not just because of the chilly temperatures—the women are on a mission to raise money to support Kenyan women impacted by climate change and the hotter, drier weather it creates.
“There are a number of events or expeditions we could have launched to raise awareness about climate change,” explains Gurecki, “but I really wanted to do something in Africa … More