Adventure Links of the Week
By Google News Category Adventure Travel ·
When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week.
Yosemite Visitors Join Forces To Perform Extraordinary Rescue on Half Dome: When a Polish hiker slipped while descending the cables on Yosemite’s Half Dome, she slid down the steep granite face and was left clinging to the rock. Her fiancé then lost his footing while trying to reach her.
A group of strangers came together to rescue the pair. Using ropes, slings, carabiners, and climbing harnesses, the group formed a human chain to reach both stranded hikers and pull them to safety.
The Electric Arms Race Has Gone Too Far: Tim Shuff questions the growing use of electric motors in outdoor adventure. He argues that the speed and convenience they create undermine traditionally self-propelled activities like paddling and cycling. Today, you can even buy battery-powered SUPs.
While recognizing that electric assistance can make outdoor sports more accessible, he thinks that its wider use will change wilderness areas, reshape trails, and create pressure to build increasingly powerful equipment.
Jan Spicka descends from Huascarán Sur. Photo: Matej Zak
A Czech Alpinist Describes How He Survived a Nightmare on Peru’s Highest Mountain: Climbing Peru’s Huascarán Sur turned into a tragedy for a group of five friends last July. Czech alpinist Jan Spicka describes how he and partner Matej Zak reached the 6,768m summit before he plunged into a hidden crevasse on the descent.
Matej’s quick reactions saved his life, but their three friends, Saul Mendoza, Chicho Ugarte, and Arti Salas, disappeared while attempting to descend by a different route. With no official mountain rescue in Peru, friends and volunteers pitched in. After 24 hours in the freezing conditions, they knew it was unlikely they would see their friends again.
GPS tracks and later searches suggest they had fallen through a collapsing snow bridge.
He Felt Stuck in New York. So He Started Walking to California: Feeling trapped by unemployment and a lack of opportunities in New York, 29-year-old Chantz Rivera began walking across America. He set off with a tent, sleeping bag, and some supplies in a shopping cart.
Over 149 days, he walked to California, pushing his cart 32 to 40km a day along highways and through small towns, documenting his progress for his growing number of online followers.
This Mountain Race Makes Runners Carry 60kg of Beer and Supplies Uphill: Slovakia’s annual Sherpa Rallye is one of the world’s unique mountain races. Competitors have to haul heavy loads of supplies up a 5.7km rocky trail to a remote hut in the High Tatras, nearly 2,000m above sea level.
Men carry 60kg, including a 30-liter keg of beer, while women carry 20kg, with the loads secured to wooden frames. The race was started in 1985 by mountain porter Viktor Beranek. The event brings together the region’s nosiči (traditional mountain porters) and also helps stock the remote hut ahead of winter.
A Hiker Slid Hundreds of Meters Down Mount Timpanogos: A female hiker was seriously injured after slipping off the trail near the summit of Mount Timpanogos in Utah. She slid several hundred feet down the steep mountainside before landing on a narrow cliff ledge. Newly released helicopter footage shows her being hoisted to safety. She was taken to hospital and is reportedly recovering.
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Originally published by Google News Category Adventure Travel
