10 OF THE BEST ADVENTURE EXPERIENCE GIFT IDEAS If you have an avid adventurer or world traveller on your holiday gift list, you might be wondering what to get the person who has seen and done it all. Lucky for you we've done the research and come [...]
HOT TIPS ON BUSHFIRE SAFETY FOR HIKERS Bushfire season has well and truly arrived. If you are planning on spending time off the beaten track it is critical to PLAN ahead, stay informed and adhere to warnings from the Rural Fire Service. Willingness to change plans might seem frustrating [...]
33,486 VERTICAL METRES. 42 DAYS. ENTIRELY HUMAN POWERED There’s nothing better than going on an epic trip with friends - one that leaves you with enough memories to last a lifetime. German film Ice & Palms tells the tale of two friends, Max Kroneck and Jochen Mesle, as they [...]
THE MINDSET & ATHLETICISM OF BRETT RHEEDER Ever wish you could get inside the mind of someone who’s at the top of their game? Want to see what it is that motivates them to keep striving for more? Canadian film Beautiful Idiot will let you do just that. This [...]
NOTES FROM THE WALL: THREE BELGIANS, ONE BIG WALL How would you feel about spending 19 days climbing and sleeping your way up a 1200 metre-high vertical wall? That’s exactly what a trio of Belgian climbers - Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Nicolas Favresse, and Siebe Vanhee – did in February [...]
CLIMBING ALL 82 OF THE 4000+ METRE PEAKS IN THE ALPS WITH LIV SANSOZ There are 82 peaks in the European Alps that tower above 4000m of elevation, scattered between France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. Margareth Voide-Bumann was the first woman to climb them, a feat that took her [...]
RIP THROUGH THE HIMALAYA ON JUNKYARD SCRAPS The chaotic streets of Kathmandu may not seem like a typical breeding ground for world-class mountain bikers, but then again nothing is typical about Rajesh (RJ) Magar and his beat-up clunker. RJ’s story is one of boundless childhood dreaming and unstoppable [...]
ORGANIC LITTER AND WHY YOU SHOULD TOSS THE HABIT How many of you have tossed the skin, core or flesh of your recently eaten fruit into the wilderness before? Perhaps an apple core out the car window on a road trip through the bush, or a banana peel [...]
BEYOND Winter On The Blade Climbing Tasmania’s Federation Peak during the wettest winter on record would be enough to dampen the spirits of even the most hardened adventurers, but for the team behind the Aussie epic Winter on the Blade that toured with the 2018 Banff Mountain Film Festival, [...]
Wander along a deserted beach, stumble upon a glassy treasure, and find yourself peering into another world, one that’s made up of soft, powder snow covering tree-filled mountainsides. Sound magical to you? Well it’s a real place! Welcome to Hokkaido, Japan, as seen by Frank Pickell in his film, [...]
