Showing posts with label antarctica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antarctica. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2015

// What is Adventure? // Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner 1978 // In nature there is danger and that is where adventure lives // Expeditions // 7 Summits // Everest // K2 // Global Explorers //

Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner On Nanga Parbat Summit August 9 1978

What is adventure? 
In this short documentary interview with Reinhold Messner he explains his view on adventure, he explains - when you are exploring where you are far from human civilization or rescue support. It is less about the 7 highest summits to climb in the world, and more about remote locations where you go to self-survive the nature because in nature is danger and the art of surviving it is where adventure lives.

Reinhold Messner is a mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. [Wikipedia] He became famous as a lumberjack style mountaineer who chose to climb 14 8000 meter + peaks like Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. On December 30, 1989, Messner crossed Antarctica to the South Pole on skis with his partner Arved Fuchs. He speaks of the dangers of exploring, where nature and you meet face-to-face and surviving those conditions while exploring is the simple definition of what adventure means to him.

"Achttausender Neu" by derivative work: Kauk0r (talk)Achttausender.png: http://www.maps-for-free.com/ - Achttausender.png. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 de via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achttausender_Neu.png#/media/File:Achttausender_Neu.png
What is controversial about "World First Expeditions?" Even Reinhold Messner refutes the importance of completing the First/8000+ meter summits, while including the 7 Summits in his interview, lesser mountain First Ascents 6000+ meter peaks still remain - So, I ask the same question what is adventure? Messner suggests it's going places on your own remote from civilization, local support or chance of rescue and surviving all the inherent dangers that can occur in nature - alone. Nearing the human limits, this is definitely where adventure can end a journey to the soul. Few will ever risk their lives to experience this first hand.

[Authors notes] Reinhold Messner is acclaimed as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. He was the first person to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks—the tallest mountains in the world—and one of the first to climb Mount Everest without any supplemental oxygen. Hear Messner recount what it was like to climb Everest and what drives his passion for adventure.[National Geographic]

// What is Adventure? // Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner 1978 // In nature there is danger and that is where adventure lives // Expeditions // 7 Summits // Everest // K2 // Global Explorers //

Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner On Nanga Parbat Summit August 9 1978

What is adventure? 
In this short documentary interview with Reinhold Messner he explains his view on adventure, he explains - when you are exploring where you are far from human civilization or rescue support. It is less about the 7 highest summits to climb in the world, and more about remote locations where you go to self-survive the nature because in nature is danger and the art of surviving it is where adventure lives.

Reinhold Messner is a mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. [Wikipedia] He became famous as a lumberjack style mountaineer who chose to climb 14 8000 meter + peaks like Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. On December 30, 1989, Messner crossed Antarctica to the South Pole on skis with his partner Arved Fuchs. He speaks of the dangers of exploring, where nature and you meet face-to-face and surviving those conditions while exploring is the simple definition of what adventure means to him.

"Achttausender Neu" by derivative work: Kauk0r (talk)Achttausender.png: http://www.maps-for-free.com/ - Achttausender.png. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 de via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achttausender_Neu.png#/media/File:Achttausender_Neu.png
What is controversial about "World First Expeditions?" Even Reinhold Messner refutes the importance of completing the First/8000+ meter summits, while including the 7 Summits in his interview, lesser mountain First Ascents 6000+ meter peaks still remain - So, I ask the same question what is adventure? Messner suggests it's going places on your own remote from civilization, local support or chance of rescue and surviving all the inherent dangers that can occur in nature - alone. Nearing the human limits, this is definitely where adventure can end a journey to the soul. Few will ever risk their lives to experience this first hand.

[Authors notes] Reinhold Messner is acclaimed as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. He was the first person to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks—the tallest mountains in the world—and one of the first to climb Mount Everest without any supplemental oxygen. Hear Messner recount what it was like to climb Everest and what drives his passion for adventure.[National Geographic]

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Eric Larsen - Polar Explorer Rides South Expedition with Moonlander Fat Bike 2012




Currently on the ice. Polar Explorer Eric Larsen is using a Fat Bike to ride to the South Pole. This expedition follows up on his triple grand slam in 2010 Save the Poles Expedition, where he skiied to the North Pole with fellow Polar Explorer Antony Jinman (Education Through Expeditions), climbed Mount Everest and skiied to the South Pole in 365 days. Using a Fat Bike as Polar expedition equipment is a first, although, Fat Biking is already popular across the Arctic, especially in northern US States and Alaska, Canada, and sections of Europe. Fat Biking is the next level of adventure cycling. 

Eric Larsen - Polar Explorer Rides South Expedition with Moonlander Fat Bike 2012




Currently on the ice. Polar Explorer Eric Larsen is using a Fat Bike to ride to the South Pole. This expedition follows up on his triple grand slam in 2010 Save the Poles Expedition, where he skiied to the North Pole with fellow Polar Explorer Antony Jinman (Education Through Expeditions), climbed Mount Everest and skiied to the South Pole in 365 days. Using a Fat Bike as Polar expedition equipment is a first, although, Fat Biking is already popular across the Arctic, especially in northern US States and Alaska, Canada, and sections of Europe. Fat Biking is the next level of adventure cycling. 

Eric Larsen - Polar Explorer Rides South Expedition with Moonlander Fat Bike 2012




Currently on the ice. Polar Explorer Eric Larsen is using a Fat Bike to ride to the South Pole. This expedition follows up on his triple grand slam in 2010 Save the Poles Expedition, where he skiied to the North Pole with fellow Polar Explorer Antony Jinman (Education Through Expeditions), climbed Mount Everest and skiied to the South Pole in 365 days. Using a Fat Bike as Polar expedition equipment is a first, although, Fat Biking is already popular across the Arctic, especially in northern US States and Alaska, Canada, and sections of Europe. Fat Biking is the next level of adventure cycling.